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Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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m apicture representing Meleager and Atalanta. The walls con-tained numerous mythological pictures, part of which weretransferred to the Naples Museum; those left on the wallshave suffered from exposure to the weather. The house of Apollo also (VI. vii. 23), on the opposite sideof the street, is noteworthy on account of its decoration, in thelast style; the god appears in a series of paintings. Twohouses in the next insula, on the south, have in their gardensfountain niches veneered with bright mosaics, the casa dellaFontana Grande (VI. viii. 22) and the casa della FontanaPiccola (VI. viii. 23). At the middle of the tenth Insula, in the same Region, is thehouse of the Anchor (VI. x. 7), so called from an anchor out-lined in the black andwhite mosaic of thefauces. The peristylehere presents an in-teresting peculiarityof construction. Thelevel of the street atthe rear of the housewas below that of Mer-cury Street. Insteadof filling up the lot soas to raise the gardento the height of the
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: LT-3 Fig. 173- Section showing a part of the peristyle of thehouse of the Anchor, restored. front part, the builder constructed a kind of basement under the colonnade of the peri-style, the floor of which was thus adjusted to the level of thefloors in the front rooms; the garden and the floor of the base-ment were on the same level as the street at the rear. Thecolonnade was higher on the north than on the other threesides (Fig. 173). The effect of the whole was far from 11 n-pleasing. Whether the projections seen in the niches below, atthe level of the garden, are pedestals or small altars cannot bedetermined. The niches at the front end were made larger, and 546 IOMlKII were three in number. In the middle niche was a diminutivetemple ; the other two had the form of an apse, and containedfountain figures. Houses were sometimes enlarged at the expense of neigh-boring dwellings, which, in some cases, were destroyed to the

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