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 900
them-selves the sand-pits. Sometimes there are different la3ers otsand at different levels, and in some cases there may be twosand-pit roads one over the other, with the bed of hard tufa be-tween them. INSCRIPTIONS. 879 … STONE COFFIN WITH OPEN SIDE. We are told in the Ada Sanctorum that one of the punish-ments inflicted on the Cliristians by the Emperor Maximinus inthe sixth persecution, A. D. 35, was digging sand and stone.The martyrs, Ciriacus and Sisinnus are especially mentioned asordered to be strictly…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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