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 307
From tlie CANDELABRA, OB LAMP STANDS. CXtrCmC polutS of thc abacus, four ornamental branches, beautifully chased, project; thelamps which now hang from them, though ancient, also, are notthose which belong to the stand, and were not found with it.They are nearly alike in figure, but differ in size.… … CANDELABRA. 291 iter in their talons. Another has two bulls heads, a third twoeiephants heads projecting from the sides. The latter is sus-pended by two dolphins, instead of the chains generally in use,whose tails are united, and attached to a small ball and ring. Thepillar is not placed in the…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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