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 60
the plaster. The importance of Signer Fiorellis discovery may be un-derstood from the results we have described. It may furnish uswith many curious particulars as to the dress and domestic habitsof the Romans, and with many an interesting episode of the lastday of Pompeii. Had it been made at an… … ]40U3E OF PlOJVlEDE^. This house, the most interesting, and by far the most ex-tensive of the private buildings yet discovered, is the SuburbanVilla, as it is called, from its position a little w^ay w^ithout thegates, in the Street of the Tombs, which led to, or formed partof, the suburb called…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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