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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Laterna
In later Greek, a lantern. Two bronze lanterns, constructed with nicety and skill, have been found in the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. One of them is represented in the annexed woodcut. Its form is cylindrical. Within is a bronze...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Laying Dead
Laying out of the Dead - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectica
Lectica was a kind of couch or litter, in which persons, in a lying position, were carried from one place to another. They were used for carrying the dead as well as the living. The Greek lectica consisted of a bed or mattress, and a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectisternium
Sacrifices being of the nature of feasts, the Greeks and Romans, on occasion of extraordinary solemnities, placed images of the gods reclining on couches, with tables and viands before them, as if they were really partaking of the things...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lesson Poets
A Lesson in the Poets - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Liber
The most common material on which books were written by the Greeks and Romans, was the thin coats or rind of the Egyptian papyrus. This plant was called by the Egyptians Byblos. The papyrus tree grows in swamps to the height of ten feet...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Libra
A balance, a pair of scales. The principal parts of this instrument were: 1. The beam. 2. The two scales, called in Latin lances. The beam was made without a tongue, being held by a ring or other appendage, fixed in the centre. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lion Gate
The Lions Gate in Mycenae, Greece.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lion Gate at Mycenae
The main entrance through the circuit wall was made grand by the best known feature of Mycenae, the Lion Gate, through which passed a stepped ramp leading past circle A and up to the palace. The Lion Gate was built in the form of a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Litmus
This instrument was long, and curved at the end. From the similarity of form the original staff received the same appelation. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lituus
Probably an Etruscan word signifying crooked. 1. The crooked staff borne by the augurs, with which they divided the expanse of heaven, when viewed with reference to divination, into regions. It is very frequently exhibited upon works of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lorica
A cuirass. The cuirass was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuirasses made of flexble bands of steel, or cuirasses of chain mail, but those of generals and officers usually...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lorica
A cuirass. The cuirass was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuirasses made of flexble bands of steel, or cuirasses of chain mail, but those of generals and officers usually...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lucerna
An oil lamp. The Greeks and Romans originally used candles; but in later times candles were chiefly confined to the houses of the lower classes. A great number of ancient lamps has come down to us; the greater part of which are made of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lucerna
An oil lamp. The Greeks and Romans originally used candles; but in later times candles were chiefly confined to the houses of the lower classes. A great number of ancient lamps has come down to us; the greater part of which are made of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lyre
Cithara or Phorminx, from a vase in the British Museum. Best period of Greek art. -The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Malleus
A hammer, a mallet. In the hands of the farmer the mallet of wood served to break down the clods and to pulverize them. The butcher used it in slaying cattle, by striking the head, and we often read of it as used by the smith upon the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Man With Ax
Who brandishing aloft the ax of doom, That just has laid one victim at her feet, Looks round her for that other, without whom, The banquet of revenge were incomplete. - The Delphian Society, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marathon Monument
Mound raised as a monument to the fallen Greeks at Marathon. -Breasted, 1914
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marathon Soldier
Soldier of Marathon - Morey, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marsupium
Marsupium, a purse. The purse used by the ancients was commonly a small leathern bag, and was often closed by being drawn together at the mouth. Mercury is commonly represented holding one in his hand, of which the annexed woodcut from...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mensa
The simplest kind of table was a round one with three legs. It is shown in the drinking scene painted on the wall of a wine shop at Pompeii, and is represented in the annexed woodcut. Tables, however, must usually have had four legs. For...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Metal Tools
Early Metal Implements - Morey, 1903