The clothing of the vestal virgins consisted of infula, vittae, suffibulum which was held together under the chin by a fibula
The clothing of the vestal virgins. The cult of Vesta in ancient Rome.
Costume variations of the Byzantine King and Queen. 400-1100 AD.
The two figures shown here represent several new varieties of Byzantine costume.
Sri Lanka. Galle. View taken from Wackwelle Hill with black monkey.
View taken from today Gongala Mountain range near Gin Ganga river. Sri Lanka near Galle.
The Shrine of the Annunciation at Nazareth, Israel
Beneath the Church of the Annunciation at Nazareth, is a Shrine, lighted by silver lamps, which are kept continually burning.
The Franciscan Convent of the Terra Santa, Nazareth.
The Franciscan Convent of the Terra Santa had been originally built in 1620, on the site of a Church of remote antiquity.
General view of Nazareth, Northern Israel.
Various views of Nazareth of the 19th and early 20th century. Photographs and illustrations. The Plain of Esdraelon. Mount of Precipitation.
Mount Tabor, the mountain of the world in Galilee in northern Israel.
Tabor is a beautiful mountain, wholly of limestone, and rising about a thousand feet above the great Plain of Esdraelon.
Calvary, or Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
A view of the Calvary Altar in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, within the Christian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem. Absalom’s Pillar in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
The Tomb of Absalom (Hebrew יד אבשלום Yad Avshalom) is an ancient funerary monument in the Kidron Valley near Jerusalem. It dates from the 1st century AD.
Hunting Knife and sheath by Eusebio Zuloaga. Spanish metalworker.
Eusebio Zuloaga, gunmaker to the Spanish monarchs, keeper of the Royal Armory in Madrid, and the most famous Spanish metalworker of the mid-nineteenth century.