Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval (1843)
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842 · London : M. A. Nattali · leaf 416
were placed,and secured at top and bottom by dou-blings of copper. The cover was he-mispherical, and lifted up and down,and was pierced with holes for the ad-mission of air. In the centre of thelantern is a small lamp, with a knob tofit into a hole in the bottom, to keep itsteady, with a moveable… … Love enveloped in drapery, walkingsoftly, and holding a lantern in hishand. The ancients had lanterns ofhorn, and among others •those of thewild ox, or urus; and also those ofbladders, like ourselves. The Romancentinels had a kind of dark lantern,square, covered on three sides withblack skins; on…
Classical antiquities · Civilization, Medieval
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