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 (14769892811)

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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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ails roundthe lid. A corridor leads into a peristyle having thirtystuccoed columns. In one of the angles of the peristyle wasa bronze bath, the only one of the kind yet discovered inPompeii. The skeleton of a woman, with her jewels, wasalso found in this garden, at a height of six or seven feet fromthe ground. After surmounting many obstacles in herattempt to escape, her strength seems to have failed her, andshe fell, smothered by the still descending volcanic shower. In the island opposite to that just described, on the easternside of the Street of Mercury and close to the triumphal arch,is a house known by the various names of Ceres, of theBacchante, of the Ship, and more commonly of Zephyrus andFlora. The last name was derived from a large picture, nowremoved to the Museum, containing a number of figures,which is called the marriage of Zephyrus and Flora, theDream of Khea, and several other names. It rej)resents a * Fiorelli, Pomp. Antiq. Hist., vol. ii. p. 248, HOUSE OF CEKES. 397
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398 POMPEII. winged figure, conducted by Cupids or genii, approaching afemale sleeping on the ground. Several other allegoricalfigures are introduced. The composition and drawing are