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 509
-two feet in height, are monoliths of giallo antico—a yellow kind of marble beautifully veined, and belonging to themost valuable inaterials used b\ ancient architects. Six other … Vi^m-, HALF-SECTION OP THE PANTHEON. columns are made of a kind of marble known as pavojiazzetto;by an ingenious mode of coloring these columns are made to har-monize with those consisting of the rarer material. Above thefirst lies a second lower story, the architectural arrangements ofwhich may be…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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