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 927
es. This is an ex- 9o6 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. tremely curious mosaic picture, the probable date of which is thebeginning of the fourth century. The other small mosaic repre-sents birds of various kinds, and is much earlier than the view ofthe harbor, perhaps as early as the first century. Possibly… … PAINTED CEILING. number of vases and lamps found in this catacomb, several viewsoi cuhicula^ and upwards of seventy paintings. The same subjectshave been repeated by Perret and Signor de Rossi.] remain inthe lower part of this catacomb that have not been restored, andthese are of the usual…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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