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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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CHAPTER LII
SCULPTURE

THE open squares and public buildings of Pompeii were
peopled with statues. The visitor who walked about the Forum
in the years immediately preceding the eruption, saw on all
sides the forms of the men of past generations who had ren-
dered service to the city, as well as those of men of his own
time.
Besides the five colossal images of emperors and members of
the imperial families, places were provided in the Forum for
between seventy and eighty life size equestrian statues ; and
behind each of these was room for a standing figure. Whether
all the places were occupied cannot now be determined, but
from the sepulchral inscription of Umbricius Scaurus (p. 410) it
is clear that as late as the time of Claudius or Nero, there was
yet room for another equestrian figure. Statues were placed
also in the Forum Triangulare and occasionally at the sides of
the streets.
In the portico of the Macellum were twenty-five statues; the
sanctuary of the City Lares contained eight, while the port

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