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Identifier: pompeianaedifice00gell (find matches)
Title: Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836 Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850 Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856 Hobsen, H Wallis, Robert, 1794-1878 Hollis, George, 1793-1842 Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859 Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896 Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 Cooke, George, 1781-1834 Shury, James Rawle, S Wise, W Porter, S Walker, John, 1759-1830 Pye, John, 1782-1874 Goodall, Edward, 1795-1870 Heath, Charles, 1785-1848
Subjects: Architecture, Roman -- Italy Pompeii (Extinct city) Pompeii (Extinct city) Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Buildings, structures, etc Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Maps
Publisher: London : Printed for Rodwell and Martin
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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POMPEIANA. 229 a town, or where it might be considered expe-dient in their construction to afford the means ofdefence. Each is separate, and provided with atower.How necessary such appendages were, may be con-cluded from the accounts left us of the predatorynature of ancient warfare. In modern Greecethese buildings still retain their ancient use, aswell as designation, jru^yog. Galen tells us, thepyrgos and tyrsis were synonymous: that theywere common may be gathered from the passageof Hippocrates, which calls forth the remark.Upon the top was the heliasterion, warm in win-ter, cool in summer. One of these has a shed,to intercept the rays of the sun by day, or dewof the night: another has a strong resemblanceto the motivo of the roof of the choragic monu-ment of Lysicrates at Athens : a third has a ver-tical piece through the apex of the pediment,the germ of the Gothic pinnacle. PLATE LVIII. The advancing colonnade, without a roof, strikes atfirst as being useless; but it was probably

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  • bookpublisher:London___Printed_for_Rodwell_and_Martin
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