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 297
^ one box ^of his books. It is evi-dent that a great number of volumes might be comprised inthis way within a small space; and this may tend to explain thesmallness of the ancient libraries—at least of the rooms which … LIBRARIES AND MONEY. LITERATURE. 285 are considered to have been such. Beside the box are twotablets, which, from the money-bag and coins scattered about,had probably been used in reckoning accounts. No perfect papyri, but only fragments, have been found atPompeii. At Herculaneum, up to the 3^ear…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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