Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Architecture. POMPEII. 9. Route, 137 whole frontage to the street, from which they could be shut off bylarge wooden doors. Many of the counters, covered with marble,and not unfrequently fitted up with large earthen vessels for thesale of wine, oil, etc., are still preserved. At the back of theshop or above it there was occasionally a second room, probably oc-cupied by the shopkeeper, or, in the case of eating-houses, used toaccommodate the customers. The great number of these shops affordsproof of the importance of the retail traffic at Pompeii. Where thereare no shops, the streets are very monotonous. The absence of glasswindows, which even during the last days ofPompeii were employedto a limited extent only, forms one of the chief difierences betweenan ancient and a modern dwelling. The ancients therefore con-centrated their domestic life in the interior of their houses, whichpresented to the street a blank wall with a few small openings, andthese covered with an iron grating. A dis

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