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 425
inchesin length, is quite flat, and surrounded by a rim one and one-halfinches high; the boss is two and one-third inches high and 404 TROY. lour and one-third inches in diameter; the furrow encircHng itis seven inches in diameter and two-fifths of an inch deep.This round shield of copper (or… … TREASURES OF PRIAM. and the furrow and rim so suitable for holding together a cover-ing of ox-hides, reminds one irresistibly of the seven-fold shieldof Ajax (Iliad \\\. 219-223): SHIELD OF THE TREASURE. 405 Ajax approached; before him, as a tower, His mighty shield he bore, seven-fold,…
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