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 927
ishes. This is an ex- 906 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. tremely curious mosaic picture, the probable date of which is thebeginning of the fourth century. The other small mosaic repre-sents birds of various kinds, and is much earlier than the view ofthe harbor, perhaps as early as the first century. Possibly… … PAINTED CEILING. number of vases and lamps found in this catacomb, several viewso{ cuhicula^ and upwards of seventy paintings. The same subjectshave been repeated by Perret and Signor de Rossi.] remain inthe lower part of this catacomb that have not been restored, andthese are of the usual…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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