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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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-air Gymnasium — Pa- laestra. 1. Colonnade. 2. Pedestal with steps behind it. 3. 3. Dressing rooms. D. Tank for Saffron Water. E. Large Theatre. 1. Dressing room. 2. Stage. 3. Orchestra. 4. I ma cavea. 5. Media cavea. 6. Summa cavea, over a corridor. 7. 7. Tribunals. F. Small Theatre. r. Dressing room. 2. Stage. 3. 3. Tribunalia. K. City Wall. L. G. Theatre Colonnade, used asBarracks for Gladiators. 1. Passage leading from Stabian Street. 2. Entrance. 3. Doorkeepers room. 4. Passage to the Large Theatre. walled up. 5. Stairway leading down from the Forum Triangulare. 6. Athletes waiting room — Ex- edra. 7. Room with remains of weapons and cloth. 8. Guard room. 9. Stairs leading to overseers rooms. 10. Kitchen. 11. Mess room. H. Temple of Zeus Milichius. 1. Colonnade. 2. Altar. 3. Cella. 4. Sacristans room. I. Temple of Isis. 1. Colonnade. 2. Cella. 3. Shrine of Harpocrates. 4. Purgatorium. 5. Hall of initiation. 6. Hall of the Mysteries. 7. Priests residence. Foundations of Steps.
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0 25 50 100 150 200 1 1 1 250 1 300 1 Scale of English Feet 0 10 ImmI—! 20 1 _ 30 40 50 1 1 100 1 Scale of Metres PLAN II!.—THE FORUM TRIANGULARE WITH ADJACENT BUILDINGS. CHAPTER XIX GENERAL VIEW OE THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS NEAR THESTAB IAN GATE—THE FORUM TR1ANGULARE AND THEDORIC TEMPLE The end of the old lava stream on which Pompeii lay runsoff into two points ; in the depression between them, as wehave seen, was the Stabian Gate. On the edge of the spur atthe left a temple of the Doric style was built in very earlytimes. The descent here, toward the southwest, is so sharpand the height so great that it was not necessary to add awall at the top as a means of defence. The sides of the temple followed in general the direction ofthe edge of the cliff. Raised upon a high foundation, it notonly dominated the plain below but was visible also from thegreater part of the city; glistening in the sun, it became alandmark for mariners far out at sea, who from a distancecould offer greetings t

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