Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 278
n, a panoramic sketch of the course THE LAND OF GREGORY THE GREAT 241 of the Nile; Winckelmann, the meeting of Helen andMenelaus in Egypt; Chaupy, the shipping of wheat forthe supply of Rome; Barthelemy, the journey of Hadrianto Elephantina; and Fea, the conquest of Egypt byAugustus. The mosaic… … General outline of the mosaic floor in the apse of the Temple of snakes, and of the pecking of fowls. But its moststriking feature is the reproduction of twenty wildAfrican beasts, with their names appended in Greekletters. Comparing the aspect and the names of these 242 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN…
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