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 431
^ a rim one and one-halfinches high; the boss is two and one-third inches high and 404 TROY. four and one-third inches in diameter; the furrow encircHng itis seven inches in diameter and two-fifths of an inch deep.This round shield of copper (or bronze?) with its central boss, … TREASUHES OF PRIAM. and the furrow and rim so suitable for holding together a cover-ing of ox-hides, reminds one irresistibly of the seven-fold shieldof Ajax (///<7r/vii. 219-223): SHIELD OF THE TREASURE. 405 Ajax approached; before him, as a tower, His mighty shield he bore, seven-fold,…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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