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 918
arge or deep pits, so that the nameof sand-pit is rather deceitful to American people, who com-monly imagine it to be always a large and deep pit to whichthese roads lead only; this is not always the case, the roads them-selves being excavated in the layer of sand, and frequently them-selves the… … ^ ^1^ STONE COFFIN WITH OPEN SIDE. We are told in the Acfa Sanctorum that one of the punish-ments inflicted on the Christians b} the Emperor jNlaximinus inthe sixth persecution, A. D. 35, was digging sand and stone.The martyrs, Ciriacus and Sisinnus are especially mentioned asordered to be strictly…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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