he WONDERFUL THINGS. 423 headdress and the presence or absence of thebeard. Both the headdress and the ornamentsabout the neck, as far as the bosom, were ex-actly of the same character as those which wesee on the sculptures and the paintings. Thebrief remark of Herodotus, that the friendsput the… … of knick-knacks, and, among other articles ofthat sort, they usually had several differentkinds of toilet-boxes on their dressing-tables.The above engraving represents a group ofthem. They have been found in considerablenumbers among the ruins of the palaces, andthey form interesting objects among…
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