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 421
nt in two places, but I believe thatthese curvatures have been produced by the heat to which thearticle was exposed in the conflagration; a silver vase four andthree-fourths inches high and broad has been fused to it; I suppose,however, that this also happened by accident in the heat of thefire.… … brought out was a copper vase five and one-half inches high andfour and one-third inches in diameter. Thereupon followed aglobular bottle of the purest gold, weighing 6,220grains, or above one pound troy; it is nearly sixinches high and five and one-half inches in diam-eter, and has the…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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