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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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e distinguished by different shades. Theoriginal cornice is the darker, marked A; the second coatingis left white; the third and last is faintly shaded. This waspainted, which neither of the two earlier cornices appear tohave been. In the restoration, the impluvium is surroundedwith a mosaic border. This has disappeared, if ever therewas one ; but mosaics are frequently found in this situation,and it is therefore at all events an allowable liberty toplace one here, in a house so distinguished for the richnessand elegance of its decorations. Beside the impluvium stooda machine, now in the National Museum, for heating water,and at the same time warming the room if requisite. Thehigh circular part, with the lid open, is a reservoir, commu-nicating with the semicircular piece, which is hollow, andhad a spout to discharge the heated water. The three eaglesplaced on it are meant to support a kettle. The charcoalwas contained in the square base. fS S^^iTLr. ■O-iJO.?-^- ^^■^^Crr^v^x ^^^^^
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V ¥ v^r Fainting representing ;he marnfr of hanging a Picture against (he wa.i 314 POMPEII. Curule Seat CHAPTEE V. THE VIA CONSULARIS, OR DOMITIANA. In the preceding chapters we have taken indiscriminately,from all quarters of the town, houses of all classes, from thesmallest to the most splendid, in the belief that such wouldbe the best way of showing the gradations of wealth andcomfort, the different styles of dwelling adopted by differentclasses of citizens, in proportion to their means. It wouldhowever be manifestly impossible so to classify all thehouses which contain something worthy of description; andwe shall therefore adopt a topographical arrangement as thesimplest one, commencing at the Gate of Herculaneum, andproceeding in as regular order as circumstances will permitthrough the excavated part of the town, concluding at thequarter of the Theatres, beyond which there is nothing exca-vated except the amphitheatre. Most of the houses immediately about the gate appear tohave

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