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 126
to have been the abode of a sculptor. Here were foundstatues, some half finished, others just begun, with blocks ofmarble, and all the tools required by the artist. Among thesewere thirty-two mallets, many compasses, curved and straight, agreat quantity of chisels, three or four levers, jacks for… … A. LABORATORY, AS FOUND IN POMPEII. of t^ie house, and communicates with it by a flight of steps. Alarge reservoir for water extended under the peristyle, which wasin good preservation when first found, but has been much injuredby the failure of the vault beneath. Returning by the southernmost of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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