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 347
seen. As, originally, the greater number were destinedto contain wine, they were adorned with analogous subjects. … VASE {Found at Pompeit.) Those of the beautiful period of the art, especially of the manu-facture of Nola, a town in which Greek institutions were observedwith extreme care, present the ancient traditions of mythologicalepisodes in all their purity. Those of a later period representsubjects taken…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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