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Title: The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city) Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79
Publisher: London : Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and divided into squarecompartments, ornamented with festoons of plants attached to candelabrasupporting spheres, with aquatic plants, bucrania, or ox heads, and Bacchicvases.* The house of Holconius contains several well-preserved pictures, besidesthat of Bacchus and Ariadne already described; but which, as we can giveno copies of them, need not here detain us. Another handsome house, with well-preserved pictures, but of veryunequal merit, is that of Marcus Lucretius, in the Strada Stabiana, calledat first the Casa delle Suonatrici, or House of the Female Musicians, frompaintings found in it. We have before remarked that this is one of theonly two houses in Pompeii of which the names of the owners are satis-factorily ascertamed; in the pre-sent case, by means of a paintingcontaining a letter addressed, M.LucKETio Flam. Martis Decuri-ONi PoMPEi(io); or, to M. Lu-cretius, Priest of Mars and De-curion of Pompeii. We amiexa woodcut of this device. Lucre-tius, therefore, must have been a
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ADDRESS OF LUCRETIUS. * See Fiorelli, Giomale degli Scavi, No. xiii. ji. 12, sqq. 84 THE RUINS OF POMPEII. man of much consideration in the to^vn. His house is a large one, butirregular in its plan. It seems to have been imder repau* at the timeof the eruption; at least, we cannot in any other way accoimt for therough state in which the impluvium., or water-basin, in the atrium wasfoimd. It was no doubt intended to be lined with marble; in its pre-sent state it forms a strong contrast with the elegance of the rest of theatrium. This has a pavement of white mosaic; the lower part of the wallsis pamted in imitation of variously-coloured marbles; above, they are blueand ornamented with grotesques; the whole svirmounted by a frieze of gUtstucco, many fragments of which were found dmuig the excavation. Alararium., or shruae of the Lares, stands on the right on entering. It isnot, however, so handsome as the larariiim in the house of Diadumenus,excavated this year. The bed-chambers, and oth

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