ISBN: 1235639339

[EAN: 9781235639333], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 166 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic b… More...

[EAN: 9781235639333], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 166 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: . . . POMPEIAN INSCRIPTIONS. The following pages represent the work of several days spent at Pompeii in the summer of the year 1832, in deciphering inscriptions traced by a sharp stylus, more than 1700 years ago, on the hard cement of the walls of houses and public buildings of that city, which were buried by the shower of ashes poured forth upon it from the neighbouring volcanic mountain Vesuvius on the 25th August, anno Domini 79. By the courtesy of the Neapolitan Government, I was permitted to copy these inscriptions at leisure. And it is pleasing to record here my obligations to Italian and French Archaeologists, who were kind enough to encourage my labours, and to recognize them as opening a new field of antiquarian discovery. A young traveller is stimulated to further enterprises by such friendly acknowledgments, and I hope to be pardoned for referring, as I do with sentiments of heartfelt gratitude, to words--perhaps too flattering--which afforded ample reward for the pains bestowed upon those interesting relics, more than forty years ago. The learned Jesuit, Pere Baffaelle Garrucci, thus wrote in his work entitled Inscriptions gravees au trait sur les Murs de Pompei (Bruxelles: De Mortier, 1854, p. 12): -- Letude des inscriptions cursives, parait avoir etc-pen suivie jusqua Iapparition de louvrage de M. Wordsworth. Cet heureux voyageur apercut le premier sur le mur exterieur de la basilique de Pompei des inscriptions metriques gravees a la pointe. H les recueillit avec soin et les publia en Angleterre, avec des notes plutot litteraires quarcheologiques. Son petit recueil parut sous ce titre: VOL. I. B Inscriptions Pompeianc e; or, Specimens and Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions discovered on the Walls of Buildings at Pompeii. London, 1837. Lorsque. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781235639333

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