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 358
winding curves froma pair of griffins; some of thechildren attack crabs and eelswith harpoons, while othersdrag the killed animals fromthe water. The gracefulgroups on the drinking-vessels in the above cuts are mostlytaken from the Bacchic cycle of myths. Besides vessels of precious metals and… … VASE OF THE FIRST CENTURY. 34-^ DOMESTIC UTENSILS. time of the Ptolemies. Many of these Alexandrine glasses havebeen preserved to us, and their beauty fully explains their supe-riority in the opinion of the ancients to those manufactured inItaly. Here also, after the discovery of excellent sand at…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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