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 432
x encircling incisions, whichgive the article the appearance of a screw;it is only by means of a magnifying glassthat it is found not to be really a screw.I also found in the same vase two pieces of gold, one of whichis one-seventh of an inch, the other above two inches long; eachof them has… … 412 TROY. the valuable articles described above, upright in the chest, sothat not so much as a bead could fall out, and everything hasbeen preserved uninjured. M. Landerer, of Athens, a chemist well known throughhis discoveries and writings, who has most carefully examinedall the copper articles of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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