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 (14781432732)

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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: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell & Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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a room of the peristyle was discovered a painting, now re-moved to the Museum, in which was depicted a writing-tablet,style, inkstand, reed, and seal, with the following words:M. Lucretio Flam. Martis Decurwni Pompei; whence it hasbeen inferred that the house belonged to one Marcus Lucretius,a Flamen of Mars and Decurio of Pompeii. A striking architectural arrangement of this dwelling is,that the peristyle is on a considerably higher level than theatrium and tablinum, so that the spectator immediately onentering is struck with a perspective view of the fountain atthe bottom of the peristyle. This house, for its size and de-corations, is among the most important in Pompeii, but its 456 POMPEII.
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HOUSE OP LUCRETIUS. 457 arrangement is irregular and capricious, as will be seen fromthe annexed ground plan. The front is almost entirely-occupied by shops, 1, 2, 3. The prothyrum 5, succeedingthe vestibule, 4, is adorned with paintings: that on the rightside representing a woman crowned with ivy and playing onthe double flute, whilst a drunken man leans on her shoulder ;whence the house has sometimes been called the Casa delleSuonatrici, or House of the Female Musicians. Opposite this