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 304
growing out of a circular plinth,with snail-shells hanging from it by small chains, which heldthe oil and wick; the trunk of a tree, with lamps suspendedfrom the branches; another, a naked boy, beautifully wrought,with a lamp hanging from one hand, and an instrument fortrimming it from the other,… … 288 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. and pillar are both placed on a square plateau raised upon lionsclaws. But beautiful as these lamps are, the light which theygave must have been weak and unsteady, and little superior tothat of the old-fashioned common lamps, with which they areidentical in principle. The…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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