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 242
had to perform this ser-vice. Such sunshades, which, like our own, could be shut bymeans of wires, we often see depicted on vases and Etruscanmirrors. This form was undoubtedly the most common one.The cap-like sunshade painted on a skyphos, which a Silenus, in-stead of a servant, holds over a… … TOILET ARTICLES FOUND AT POMPEII. The above articles were in good preservation when found.a^ /,;?, are hand-mirrors; ni^ is a w.all-mirror; ^, toilet-box, madeof ivory and beautifully carved; d and k^ bronze combs; 2, fintcomb; ^, ear and tooth-pick; /*, pin-box, with glass and steel pins;^,…
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