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 438
per-forated hole for hanging it up, and on theother side six encircling incisions, whichgive the article the appearance of a screw;it is only by means of a magnifying glassthat it is found not to be really a screw.I also found in the same vase two pieces of gold, one of whichis one-seventh of an… … 412 TROY. the valuable articles described above, upright in the chest, sothat not so much as a bead could fall out, and everything hasbeen preserved uninjured. M. Landerer, of Athens, a chemist well known throughhis discoveries and writings, who has most carefully examinedall the copper articles of…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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