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 945
shes. This is an ex- 9o6 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. tremely curious mosaic picture, the probable date of wliich is thebeginning of the fourth century. The other small mosaic repre-sents birds of various kinds, and is much earlier than the view ofthe harbor, perhaps as early as the first century. Possibly… … PAINTED CEILING. number of vases and lamps found in this catacomb, several viewsof cubicula^ and upwards of seventy paintings. The same subjectshave been repeated by Perret and Signor de Rossi.] remain in.the lower part of this catacomb that have not been restored, andthese are of the usual…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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