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 894
asts. Museum of Syracuse.On a Gateway at JViccea ( Translation^: The very splendid, and large, and good city of the Nicae-ans [erects] this wall for the autocrat Csesar Marcus AureliusClaudius, the pious, the fortunate, august, of Tribunitial author-ity, second time Proconsul, father of his… … ^HE j]ATACO/^Bg. The catacombs, or under-ground cemeteries, are among themost stupendous wonders of antiquity, and have ever since theirdiscovery excited the keenest interest of archaeologists. The cut on page 875 is a plan of the catacombs of Rome.These alone were years ago computed to be 590…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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