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
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sidered desirable ^.In ancient Rome were 144 public cloacinse 5 also thepublic walk, with the Sellaj Patroclianaj: per-haps something of this sort remains to be foundhere, where few houses can boast the possessionof such convenience at all: but the Lasana wereportable ^. 27 Entrance from the cavsedium to a third court,perhaps the Gynaiconitis, or womens apart-ments, with a porticus; the columns octangular,painted red. The whole of this seems an ad-dition to the original plan. 28 Altar, and picture of Diana, bathing, and Ac-taeon, with horns, chased by liis own hounds.Europa, Helle, Phrixus. 29 Small apartments, or cubicula. One of them ishighly finished, with delicate painting, and pave-ment, dado, &,c. of different coloured marbles.On one side is Mars and Venus; again, Cupidplaying with his arms ; on another, a recess forPenates, or Lares. They are entered from theportico. The other openings, opposite eachother, are windows : the intermediate space wasroofed. Hon. Sat. I. 6. 109.
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p F^ H ^ ^ f^ H O e^ q § P^ v; <; 1^ c: POMPEIANA. 175 PLATE XXVIII. Atrium, or cavsedium, of the foregoing house. Inthe centre is the compluvium and altar of thedomestic divinity: beyond which is the tabh-num, separated by a dwarf wall from the green-house, or viridarium. The Ionic columns forthe support of the roof of the portions of thisare seen, and its painted wall beyond. Uponthe dwarf wall was constructed the large win-dow. To the right is the communicating pas-sage, called fauces: right and left the ala, orconversation recesses, which probably had di-vans. The door-ways of the apartments sur-rounding the cavffidium are also seen on eachside: their painted walls, and that of the cavse-dium itself, may be observed, imitating slabs ofmarble. The floor was cement, with bits ofcoloured stone imbedded. A false door ap-pears to the left of the tablinum, to correspondwith the fauces: it may hence be conjecturedthat the doors were sometimes thus painted ^Vitruvius directs that the

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