Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 162
rra-cotta, or baked clay, incrusted with thefinest marble stucco. Their only covering is a girdle round the ROMAN BATHS. 15i loins; they have been painted flesh-color, with black hair andbeards; the moulding of the pedestal and the baskets on theirheads were in imitation ol gold; and the pedestal… … RECEPTION TO THE BATHS (at J^ompeO). The ceiling is worked in stucco, in low relief, with scatteredfigures and ornaments of little flying genii, delicately relieved onmedallions, with foliage carved round them. The ground ispainted, sometimes red and sometimes blue. The room is lightedby a window…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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