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 35
contained, as itsname imports,fthe family arch-ives, the statues,pictures, geneal-ogical tables, andother relics of along line of an-cestors. Alae, wings,were similar butsmaller apart-ments, or ratherrecesses, on each atrium. Fauces,jaws, were pas-sages, more especially those which passed to the… … VESTIBULE OF A POMPEIAN HOUSE. DINING HALLS. 3I In houses of small extent, strangers were lodged in cham-bers which surrounded and opened into the atrium. The great,whose connections spread into the provinces, and who werevisited by numbers who, on coming to Rome, expected to profitby their…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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