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 301
ready again for other service. The cut above, besides an inkstand, represents an open book.The thinness and yellowish color of the leaves, which are tiedtogether with ribbon, denotes that it was made of parchment orvellum. Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa^ orca-psula^ in which… … -^ LIBBAKIES AND MONEY. It is evi-dent that a great number of volumes might be comprised inthis way within a small space; and this may tend to explain thesmallness of the ancient libraries—at least of the rooms which LITERATURE. 285 are considered to have been such. Beside the box are twotablets,…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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