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 310
ANCIENT LAMPS. 294 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. of clay, the latter being painted in various colors. The Athe-nians also used lanterns made of transparent horn, and lit upwith oil-lamps. They were carried at night in the streets likethe torches. Sparks, carefully preserved under the ashes, servedboth Greeks…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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