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 726
^ give an idea of the perfection which the … MOSAIC DOVES. Greeks attained to in that art. It represents a vase full of water,on the sides of which are four doves, one of which is in the actof drinking. It is supposed by some to be the mosaic of Perga-mus mentioned by Pliny. It is entirely composed of cubes ofmarble, without an} admixture of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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