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 300
TABULiB, CALAMUS, AND PAPYEUS. how manuscripts wereread, rolled up at each end, so as to show only the column ofwriting upon which the student was intent. At the other side isa purse, or bag, to hold the reed, penknife, and other writing in-struments. The next cut represents, besides a set of… … by which the sick hadbeen cured, by the— perusal of which Hip-TABUL^, STYLUS, AND PAPYRUS. pocratcs Is sald to havc profited in the compilation of his medical works. It also con-tains, besides a papyrus similar to those described, a hexagonalinkstand, with a ring to pass the finger through, upon…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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