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 905
brick arches; in one place, at a crossing, are four smalllow brick arches, the character of which agrees with the periodof the restoration in the sixth century; the mortar between thebricks or tiles is about the same thickness as the tiles themselves, … LAMPS FOUND IN THE (JATACOMBS. CATACOMBS. 885 which are rather more than an inch thick, so that there are fivetiles to a loot, including the mortar between them. These brickarches are not subsequent repairs, but part of the original con-struction to carry the vault. The arenariiim^ or sand-pit…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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