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 868
y ruled lines into narrow vertical columns of an inch orless in breadth, in which the hieroglyphic signs are arranged one MUMMY CASES AND SARCOPHAGI. 847 under the other. Sometimes the papyri are found written in theenchorial character. Several manuscripts in Greek on papyrushave been also… … DISCOVERED TOMB WITH ITS TREASURES. {At PompcH.) Poinaii Tombs.—Before commencing our description of thetombs which line the way as the visitor approaches Pompeii,and seem to prepare him for that funeral silence which reigns inthe long-lost city, the more remarkable for its contrast with thegay and…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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