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 359
rizontal sections were made throughit, each one would have the same device on its upper and undersurface. It is in fact a Mosaic in glass; made by fusing together 346 EMPLOYMENl as many delicate rods of an opaque glass of the color required forthe picture, in the same manner as the woods in… … AirciENT GLASS VESSELS. birds, and other details, are only to be made out with a lens;which means of magnifying was evidently used in Egypt, whenthis Mosaic glass was manufactured. Indeed, the discovery of alens of crystal by Mr. Layard, at Nimroud, satisfactorily provesits use at an early period…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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