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 912
reasts. Museum of Syracuse.On a Gatezvay at NiccBa ( Translation^: The very splendid, and large, and good city of the Nicae-ans [erects] this wall for the autocrat Caesar Marcus AureliusClaudius, the pious, the fortunate, august, of Tribunitial author-ity, second time Proconsul, father of his… … ^HE j]ATACOJVlBg. The catacombs, or under-ground cemeteries, are among themost stupendous wonders of antiquity, and have ever since theirdiscoverv excited the keenest interest of archaeolos^ists. The cut on page 875 is a plan of the catacombs of Rome.These alone were years ago computed to be 590…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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