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 917
it was placed and fixed to the walls like marble slabs.There are some long narrow slips of white stucco lying about,which seem to have been fitted into the hollow grooves betweenthe slabs. The vaults in this catacomb are in many parts sup-ported by brick arches; in one place, at a crossing, are… … CATACOMBS. 885 which are rather more than an inch thick, so that there are fivetiles to a foot, including the mortar between them. These brickarches are not subsequent repairs, but part of the original con-struction to carry the vault. The arenariu?n^ or sand-pit gallery,through which the present…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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