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Title: Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ined the name of Casa Sella Caccia, from agreat painting on the wall of the peristyle representing acombat with wild beasts in the amphitheatre. The spacebetween the Vico Storto and the Street of Stabias remainsfor the most part unexcavated. Passing on to the insula bounded on the north by theStreet of Holconius, on the south by the Street of Isis, onthe west by the Street of the Theatres, and on the east bythat of Stabiae, we find two remarkable houses excavatedwithin the last few years. That at the northern corner ofthe Street of the Theatres, numbered 4 on the entrance^is sometimes called the House of Holconius. It was exca-vated in 1861. The interior is represented in the annexedengraving. The two shops which precede it, numbered 2and 3, seem to have been the property of the master of the HOUSE OF HOLCONIUS, 445 house, and communicate with each other. A third shop,numbered 1, at the angle of the street, appears to have beenoccuj)ied by a dyer, and is called Taberna Oifectoris.* On
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the front of the house were some inscriptions for electioneer-ing purposes. * Fiorelli, Giornale degli Scavi, No, 1, p. 11, 446 POMPEII. \ The pilasters on either side of the main entrance arepainted red to about the height of a man, beyond whichthey are of white plaster. On entering the prothyrum maybe observed a large hole in the wall, destined for the recep-tion of the repagulum, or strong wooden bar with which thedoor was secured. The door appears, from the places for boltson the threshold, to have been composed of two pieces (bifora).The walls of the prothyrum are painted black, with a redpodium, divided into three compartments by green andyellow lines, in the middle of which are an aquatic bird,perhaps an ibis, a swan with spread wings, and an ornamentthat cannot be made out. Towards the top the walls arepainted with fantastic pieces of architecture on a whiteground; amidst which, on one side, is a nymph descendingapparently from heaven. She has a golden-coloured vest, onher sho

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