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 906
breasts. Museum of Syracuse.On a Gateway at Niccea ( Translation): The very splendid, and large, and good city of the Nicae-ans [erects] this wall for the autocrat Csesar Marcus AureliusClaudius, the pious, the fortunate, august, of Tribunitial author-ity, second time Proconsul, father of his… … Jhe j]atacojvib^. The catacombs, or under-ground cemeteries, are among themost stupendous wonders of antiquity, and have ever since theirdiscovery excited the keenest interest of archaeologists. The cut on page 875 is a plan of the catacombs of Rome.These alone were years ago computed to be 590…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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