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 79
72 JEWELS AND ORNAMEXTS. to be increased by means of Pompeii; for such small flower-potsas are attached to houses within the town can not contain any-thing worth notice beyond a fountain or a summer triclinium. … HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. We will do our best, however, to complete the reader^snotion of an Italian villa, and show what might have been, sincewe can not show what has been here, by borrowing Plinys ac-count of the garden attached to his Tuscan villa, the only accountof a Roman garden which has come…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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