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 353
^ such as containthe early Corinthian vases,are found by boring to adepth of several feet beneaththe surface. The early tombs of CivitaVecchia, and Caere, or Cer-vetri, in Italy, are tunneledin the earth; and those atVulci, and in the Etruscanterritory, from which the finest and largest vases have… … A GRKEK SACRIFICE. VASES FOUND IN TOMBS. 337 rude stones or tiles, and are exactly of sufficient size to containa corpse and five or six vases; a small one is placed near thehead, and the others between the legs of the body, or they areranged on each side, frequently on the left side alone. The…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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