Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 354
windinjc curves froma pair of griffins; some of thechildren attack crabs and eelswith harpoons, while othersdrag the killed animals fromthe water. The gracefulgroups on the drinking-vessels in the above cuts are mostlytaken from the Bacchic cycle of myths. Besides vessels of precious metals and… … VASE OK THE FIKST CENTUKT. 34-^ DOMESTIC UTENSILS. time of the Ptolemies. Many of these Alexandrine glasses havebeen preserved to us, and their beauty fully explains their supe-riority in the opinion of the ancients to those manufactured inItaly. Here also, after the discovery of excellent sand at…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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