Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities - an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors (14770733144)

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Title: Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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e Street ofStabife, at the angle formed by the street leading to theamphitheatre, stands the house of Apollo Citharoedus, excavatedin 1864. It derives its name from a fine bronze statue, aslarge as lifO; of Apollo sounding the lyre, which was foundthere, but has now been placed in the Museum at Naples. Inthis house the tablinum and a peristyle beyond are on ahigher level than the atrium; consequently the fauces^ orpassage leading to the latter, ascends. In the peristyle is asemicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposedseveral animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene. Inthe centre was a wild boar in flight attacked by two dogs; atthe sides were placed a lion, a stag, and a serpent. Theseanimals, arranged in the same way in which they were found,are now preserved in the Museum. An unusual arrangement in this house is a second peristyleat the side of the first, and divided from it by a wall havingsix windows, and a door at each end. At the bottom of this 454 POMPEII.
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HOUSE OF LUCRETIUS. 455 second peristyle are some apartments, of which the furtheston the right-hand side is of considerable size. At the bottom of the first peristyle, on the right-hand side,is a large door or archway, which forms the entry to a smallatrium, having rooms at its sides. On the wall is a pictureof the Judgment of Paris, but much inferior in execution tothat in the House of Holconius. Some of the adjacentchambers have also paintings. On the left side of the sameperistyle is a flight of steps leading to another peristyle on ahigher level, and belonging to another house, which has itsprincipal entrance in the street that leads to the amphi-theatre. In the same Street of Stabiae, and on the same side of theway, but at a considerable distance towards the north, standsanother house, numbered 33 on the door, remarkable both forits plan and its decorations. It was excavated in 1847. In