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 354
winding curves froma pair of griffins; some of thechildren attack crabs and eelswith harpoons, while othersdrag the killed animals fromthe water. The gracefulgroups on the drinking-vessels in the above cuts are mostlytaken from the Bacchic cycle of myths. Besides vessels of precious metals and… … VASE OF THE FIRST CENTURY. 34 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. time of the Ptolemies. Many of these Alexandrine glasses havebeen preserved to us, and their beauty fully explains their supe-riority in the opinion of the ancients to those manufactured inItaly. Here also, after the discovery of excellent sand at…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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