Identifier: dictionaryofgree02smit (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical geography
Publisher: London : Walton & Maberly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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that sur-rounded the Forum. South of this again is a build-ing which was certainly a temple, though it isinjpossible now to say to what divinity it wasconsecrated; it is commonly called the Temple ofiMercury, and is of small size and very irregularform. Between this and the street known as theStreet of the Silversmiths, which issued from theForum near its SE. angle, was a large buildingwhich, as we learn from an inscription still existing,was erected by a female priestess named Euinachia.It consists of a large and spacious area (abnut 130feet by 65) surrounded by a colonnade, and havinga raised platform at the end with a semicircularrecess similar to that usually found in a Basilica.But though in this case the founder of the edificeis known, its purpose is still completely obscure.It is commonly called the Chalcidicum, but it is (jro-bable that that term (which is found in the in-scription above noticed) dignates only a part ofthe edifice, not the whole building. 650 rOMPEII.
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BIKIIS KVE VIEW OF THE FOliU.M. A. Temple of Jupiter.U. Temple of Venus.C. Teiiple oiMercury.U. Basilica.K. Edilice of Eumachia.F. Thermae. 0. Pantlieon or Temple of Augustus. 1, K, L. Tribunals or Courts of Justice. X. Granaries. P. Curia or .Senaculum. K. Part not yet excavated. .S. Street of tlie Dried Fruits. T. Street leadinc to tlie Temple of Fortuno. V. Triumphal Arcli. W. Pedestals. V. Street of the Silversmiths. The S. end of the Forum was oc.oupied bv three , of justice, in ^vliich the tribunals held their sittinj;s.buildint;s of very similar character, standing side by The western side of the Forum was principally occn-side, each consisting of a single hall with an apse or pied by a Basilica, and a large temple, wliich issemicircular recess at the further extremity. The commonly called (though witliout any authi;rity)niost probable o))iniuu is that tliese were the courts ; the Te:n))lc of Venus. The former is tlie largest POMPEII. buildina; in Pomppii; it is of an oblonr; f

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