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 424
ms and dice, gold buttons and similar jewels;then followed six gold bracelets, and, on the top of all, the twosmall gold goblets. Some of these are mentioned by Homer: Far off were flung tbe adornments of her head;The net, the fillet, and the woven band,The nuptial-veil by golden Venus given. The… … temples, each of which has eleven square leaveswith a groove; these chains are joined to oneanother by four little cross chains, at the end ofwhich hangs a glittering golden idol of the tutelargoddess of Troy, nearly an inch long.The entire length of each of thesechains, with the idols, amounts to…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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