Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 310
growing out of a circular plinth,with snail-shells hanging from it by small chains, which heldthe oil and wick; the trunk of a tree, with lamps suspendedfrom the branches; another, a naked boy, beautifully wrought,with a lamp hanging from one hand, and an instrument fortrimming it from the other,… … 288 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. and pillar are both placed on a square plateau raised upon lionsclaws. But beautiful as these lamps are, the light which theygave must have been weak and unsteady, and little superior tothat of the old-fashioned common lamps, with vv^hich they areidentical in principle. The…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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