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 419
st thing I found was a large copper shield, in theform of an oval salver, in the middle of which is a knob or bossencircled by a small furrow. It is a little less than twenty inchesin length, is quite flat, and surrounded by a rim one and one-halfinches high; the boss is two and one-third inches… … TKEASUltES OF PKIAM. and the furrow and rim so suitable for holding together a cover-ing of ox-hides, reminds one irresistibly of the seven-fold shieldof Ajax (///W vii. 219-223): SHIELD OF THE TREASURE. 405 Ajax approached; before him, as a tower, His mighty shield he bore, seven-fold,…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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