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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 873

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danger of fire from burning funeral piles in theneighborhood of houses. It is not meant, however, that therewere no tombs within the city. Some appear to have been in-cluded by the gradual extension of the walls; others were estab-lished in those intervals when the law of the twelve tables fell,as… … ARTICLES FOUND IN A TOMB If the family were of sufficient consequence to have a patri-monial tomb the deceased was laid in it; if he had none such,and was wealthy, he usually constructed a tomb upon his prop-erty during life, or bought a piece of ground for the purpose.If possible the tomb was…

Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities

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