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 415
OF TERKA-COTTA. {From the Palace of Priam, at 2i^feet) Now, with regard to the objects found in these houses, Imust first of all mention having discovered, at a depth of twenty-six feet, in the Palace of Priam, a splendid and brilliant brownvase, twenty-four and one-fourth inches high, with a… … KnoM PALACE OK PKIAM. artistic decorations; there are no arms, nor are there any indica-tions of thcin. Unfortunately this exquisite vase has suffered from SILVER VASES. 401 the weight of stones which lay upon it. No. 4 resembles an owlsbeak, and especially as this is seen between the ear-shaped…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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