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 364
winding curves froma pair of griffins; some of thechildren attack crabs and eelswith harpoons, while othersdrag the killed animals fromthe water. The gracefulgroups on the drinking-vessels in the above cuts are mostlytaken from the Bacchic cycle of myths. Besides vessels of precious metals and… … VASE OF THE FIRST CENTURY. 342 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. time of the Ptolemies. Many of these Alexandrine glasses havebeen preserved to us, and their beauty fully explains their supe-riority in the opinion of the ancients to those manufactured inItaly. Here also, after the discovery of excellent sand at…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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