Identifier: pompeibuildings00dyer (find matches)
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: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell & Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rade carriedon in them. From the number of arophorse found on hispremises, as well as several Bacchic emblems, he wasprobably a wine merchant. At the bottom of the firstatrium is the tablinum, having an apartment on each sideof it, and a corridor or fauces leading into the peristyle.This is of larger dimensions than usual, occupying nearly thewhole breadth of the two atria, and being thus, contrary towhat is commonly found, longer in its breadth—if such an ex-pression may be allowed—than in its depth. At the back andin the right side of this peristyle are other apartments. Thefurthest of these on the right has two or three windows, and * Pomp. Antiq. Hist., t. ii. p. 240, seq.f ee p. 352. 394 POMPEII. at a considerable height in the wall, a little niche, or redicula,containing an altar. This part of the building may also beentered from the second atrium, or that on tbe right. At the extremity of the whole ground-plan is a largequadrangular garden, surrounded with columns forming a
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Acrutus on a Tanther. portico. On the left-hand side of this portico may be seenabout a hundred amphorae for wine, still partially coveredwith lapillo. They are now filled with the same substance,the heat of the ashes having burnt away the corks or stoppers.But what rendered this house remarkable, even more thanits size and beauty, was the richness of its furniture and HOUSE OF THE FAUN. 39; decorations, and especially of its mosaics. In an apartmentin the middle of the peristyle was found the famous mosaicof the battle of Issus, now in the Museum at Naples, whichwe have already described. The threshold of one of thedoors leading into the atrium had also a mosaic, unique bothfor its execution and for its state of preservation. It is aboutnine and a half feet long by nearly two broad, and displaysa grand festoon of flowers and fruits, with tragic masks andtympana. In another apartment was the beautiful mosaic ofAcratus, mounted on a panther, of which we annex a plate.These have been re

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