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Identifier: archaeologicaljo54brit (find matches)
Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he same wall; but this beingexecuted by a painter of the Fourth period, the border waspainted in the style to which he was accustomed, andprobably also not with the precise shade of pigments thatwere in use at an earlier date. The surrounding decora-tions are, however, of the Egyptian variety of the Thirdstyle. The picture is 34c high by 39c^ wide, outsidewhich, left and right, is a white border on which are* I^gyP^^ia^i •^yle marks ; beyond which again is another TAMILY rOllTKAITS AT POMPEI. 15 ))road border of green. The background is blue, and onit are two ligures,nude to the waist. The figure on theleft in the picture holds over his shoulder a thyrsus in hisleft hand; from the upper end depends a ribbon; in hisright hand he holds up in front of the young woman adrinking horn. The woman is slightly behind his rightshoulder. The whole picture is not very distinct, but wethink that the lines round her neck that appear like achain are really the top of a light transparent tunic; her
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IX. f POETRAITS FROM POMPEI. Regio IX. Insuj-a v. House 18. breasts are visible through it; her hair is chestnut anddecorated with vine leaves; in each ear is a pearl. Hei*left hand is behind his neck, which is curious, as the handof the furthest figure in the next portrait of the Thirdstyle is in the same position. A later one of these whichwe show here is in an exedra in IX, 5, 18, within an cecus,and high up in the frieze in a small white panel, sur-rounded b) a border of the Third style, again margined ontwo sides by a broad red border; the whole is to one side 16 FAMILY POKTRAITS AT POMPEI. of a blue panel containino- a nude figure, on the other sideof which was another portrait. It is a large rectangleabout a foot and a-half high by one wide, containing atits lower end the portraits of two women : the colouring isvery delicate. One woman is in a violet, the other in aoreen, robe: the first has hair parted in the centre, andleaves arranged beliind it; the shoulders farthest from

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