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 231
h sides. It was fastened with clasps over bothshoulders, and shortened as far as the knees by means of pullingit through the girdle. In this form it is worn by two maidensin the Louvre, destined for the service of the Lakonian Artemisat Karyse. They carry kinds of baskets on their heads, andare… … resentations of that goddess on gems and coins. The longchiton for women reaching down to the feet, and only a littlepulled up at the girdle, we see in a vase painting, representingdancing 3ouths and maidens, the former wearing the short, thelatter the long, chiton. A development jf the long chiton…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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