Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 105
erpart of the columns being painted blue. This house runs throughthe island from one street to the other. Adjoining it, on the south, is the custom-house,telonium. Here a wide en-trance admits us into an am-ple chamber, where manyscales were found, and amongthem a steelyard, statera^much resembling… … SCALES FOUND AT POMPEII shall have), also scales factory. In the first room were heaps of lime, the admirable quality of which has excited the wonder of modern plasterers. In an inner room are the soap-vats, placed on a level with the ground. Besides these, the block contains three houses which…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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