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 56
lmost to the windows of the first floor. Thesevictims of the eruption were not found together, and they do notappear to have belonged to the same family or household. Themost interesting of the casts is that of two women, probablymother and daughter, lying feet to feet. They appear from theirgarb… … tended, and her left arm, drops loosely. On one linger is stillseen her coarse iron ring. Her child was a girl of fifteen; she 52 DISCOVERED BODIES. seems, poor thing, to have struggled hard for life. Her legs aredrawn up convulsively; her little hands are clenched in agony.In one she holds her…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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