Identifier: dictionaryofgre02smit (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, (Sir) 1813-1893
Subjects: Geography, Ancient Classical geography
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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l portico that sur-rounded the Forum. South of this again is a build-ing which was certainly a temple, though it isimpossible now to say to what divinity it wasconsecrated; it is commonly called the Temple ofMercury, 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 Eumachia.It consists of a large and spacious area (about 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 pro-bable that that term (which is found in the in-scription above noticed) designates only a part ofthe edifice, not the whole building. CrjO POMPEII.
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BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE FORUM. A. Temple of Jupiter. B. Temple of Venus. C. Temple of Mercury. D. Basilica. E. Edifice of Eumachia. G. PaXon or Temple of Augustus.I, K, L. Tribunals or Courts of Justice. The S. end of the Forum was occupied by threebuildings of very similar character, standing side byride, each consisting of a single hall with an apse osemicircular recess at the further extremity. Ttamost probable opinion is that these were the courts N. Granaries. P. Curia or Senaculum. R Part not yet excavated. <; street of the Dried Fruits. T. Street leading to the Temple of Fortune. V. Triumphal Arch. W. Pedestals. Y. Street of the Silversmiths. of iustice, in which the tribunals held their sittings.The western side of the Forum was principally occu-pied by a Basilica, and a large temple, which iscommonlv called (though without any authority)the Temple of Venus. The former is the largest POMPEII. building in Pompeii; it is of an oblong form, 220feet in length by 80 in breadth, an

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