Pompeiana, the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii
by Sir William Gell (9781150584398)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: H. G. Bohn Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city) Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Pompeii (Ancient city) Pompeii Cities and towns (Ruined, extinct, etc.) History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Italy Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: . Another apartment, for the purpose of traffic. It communicates with the cavsedium by the apartment (5). 6. Compluvium, or shallow cistern, for collecting the water which i'ell through the roof. In it was a bronze stag. Altar for the household god. Tablinum, with an inner room (9). They were both separated from the garden by wide windows upon a dwarf wall. The latter was probably triclinium, or cubiculum,1 and is adorned with representations of scenic masks. A compartment opposite the window is given in Plate xxxm. The stucco floor imitated a white breccia. 10. Cella familiaria: bed-chambers not ten feet square. 11. Alse. One of these opened into the room (12), from which was a staircase to the upper apartments. 13. Lararium, or pinacotheca. 14. Fauces, or passage to the viridarium, pseudo-garden, or green-house, the floor of which, was three feet above the porticus. Two flights of steps conducted to the higher level; between them were the dwarf walls (15), and an inner wall, formed to contain earth for plants. Between the two was a gutter to receive the water from the roof. The back wall is painted with shrubs, birds,

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