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 351
, those with paintings relative to public and private customs;those representing games, repasts, scenic representations of com-bats af animals, hunting and funeral subjects. 334 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. Millingen remarks that the subjects of the paintings vary ac-cording to the period and the places in… … VASE. {Found at Pompeii.) Those of the beautiful period of the art, especially of the manu-facture of Nola, a town in which Greek institutions were observedwith extreme care, present the ancient traditions of mythologicalepisodes in all their purity. Those of a later period representsubjects taken…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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