Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 79
executed in the shape ofhuman heads are an instance of the fertile devices forcombining use with beauty. 65 66 ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL ART. Utensils similar to those of Pompeii have been other-wise most largely found in Etruscan tombs, but thissimply means that, for reasons unknown to us, thefashions of… … Fig. 40.—Pompeiian Street, as Excavated. discovery was made, however, near Hildesheim in Ger-many, in 1869, of nearly a hundred pieces of the elab-orately decorated silver table service of a Eoman officeror general. It is supposed to date from the defeat of * Herculaneum is a closely adjacent…
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