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 939
ishes. This is an ex- 9o6 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. tremely curious mosaic picture, the probable date of which is thebeginning of the fourth century. The other small mosaic repre-sents birds of various kinds, and is much earlier than the view ofthe harbor, perhaps as early as the first century. Possibly… … PAINTED CEILING. number of vases and lamps found in this catacomb seveT-al viewsof ciihicula^ and upwards of seventy paintings. The same subjectshave been repeated by Perret and Signor de Rossi.] remain mthe lower part of this catacomb that have not been restored, andthese are of the usual…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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