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 (14792821903)

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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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some square, some vaulted. Sometimes areseen doors and steps which seem to lead into inner apart-ments. There are projecting balconies, draperies hangingfrom the cornices, garlands suspended from pillar to pillar,and other light and cheerful, but exceedingly fantastic de-corations. Over the doorway of the first room adjoining thenatatio is a well-preserved figure of a Jupiter in stucco. Theking of gods and men is sitting on a square stone, on whichhe rests with his left arm, whilst in his right hand he holdshis sceptre. Before him, on a short pillar, sits his eagle.On the northern wall are also the remains of two or threefemale figures in relief. To the north of the Natatio and its adjoining apartmentis a long passage (29) with an entrance into the palaestrafrom the Vico del Lupanare. It communicates with anotherentrance on the south (50). On the other side of the Baths 180 POMPEII. is an entrance from the Strada Stabi ana into the corridor(43), and another into that marked 42 and 45.
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The side of the palaestra opposite to that just describedcontains the warm baths. They consist, like the baths j)re- DESCRIPTION OF BATHS. 181 piously discovered, of two complete suites of apartments,each having an apodyterium, frigidarium, tepidarium, andcaldarium, and between them the furnace (47) by which bothsuites were heated. This arrangement of the furnace seemsto show that both these setsof baths were used simultaneously;and as it does not appear to have been the Roman custom tohave distinct baths for the richer and poorer classes, we arenaturally led to the conclusion that one of these sets wasintended for men and the other for women. Here, however,we are met by the objection that neither of the sets is com-pletely isolated and j)rivate, as is the case with the bathsassigned to the women in the previously discovered Thermm,but that both sets have an entrance from the palaestra.Hence some writers, like Michaelis, have been led to con-clude that the set which occupies the furth