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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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sage has often been erroneously calledfauces. The andron is lacking only in small houses, or in those inwhich a different connection is made between the front andrear portions by means of a second atrium, or other rooms. VI. Garden, Peristyle, and Rooms about the Peristyle A few Pompeian houses, like those of the olden time, arewithout a peristyle, having a garden at the rear. In such casesthere is a colonnade at the back of the house, facing the gar-den ; this is the arrangement in the houses of the Surgeon, ofSallust, and of Epidius Rufus. In the large house of Pansa(Fig. 172), we find both a peristyle and a garden, the latterbeing at the rear of the peristyle ; and in many houses a smallgarden was placed wherever available space could be found. The peristyle is a garden enclosed by a colonnade, or havinga colonnade on two or three sides. When this was higher onthe north side than on the other three, as in the house of theSilver Wedding, the peristyle was called Rhodian. In the Tufa
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THE POMPEIAN HOUSE 255 Period the colonnade was frequently in two stories, on all foursides or on the front alone. Fragments of columns belongingto the second story have been found in many houses, but inonly one instance, that of the house of the Centenary, are theyof such a character as to enable us to make an accurate restora-tion ; here the double series of columns extended only acrossthe front. A separate entrance, posticum (Fig. no), usually connectedthe peristyle with a side street. At the rear there was often abroad, deep recess, exedra, corresponding with the tablinum.The location of the other rooms in this part of the house isdetermined by so many conditions, and manifests so great adiversity that it may be spoken of more conveniently in con-nection with their use. VII. Sleeping Rooms The small, high rooms about the atrium were in the earliertimes used as bedrooms; and such they remained in somehouses, as that of the Faun, down to the destruction of thecity. The sleeping room

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