Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of PompeiiRodwell and Martin, 1821 - 275 من الصفحات |
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   afforded alæ altar amongst amphitheatre ancient apartments appears arched atrium Bond Street bronze building called Campania cavædium centre Cha Heath city of Pompeii colonnade colours columns compluvium court covered crater decurions door door-way Doric order duumvir Engraved by Cha entrance eruption excavations exedra feet 6 inches formed front gallery gate Greek temple Heath POMPEII Herculaneum house of Pansa inches diameter inscription latter lava Livy marble Martin New Bond Mefs Rodwell ment modern monument mountain Naevoleia Tyche Naples Nola Nuceria observed Oplontis ornamented Oscan painted passage pedestal peristyle pilasters placed PLATE Pliny Pompeian Pompeii portico probably Published puteal remains Rodwell & Martin Roman Rome roof Royal Museum Sarnus seat seems semi-circular sepulchres side space spot square Stabia statue stone stucco surrounded tablinum Tacitus TEMPLE OF BACCHUS tetrastyle theatre tion towers triclinium Tyche Vesuvius VIEW villa Vitruvius wall whole
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الصفحة 96 - It was spacious, and near the entrance was a bath with all the necessary appendages; in the rear the best rooms opened upon a terrace, running the whole width of the house, and overlooking a garden about 30 yards square, surrounded by a covered walk or portico continued under the terrace.
الصفحة 265 - A most beautiful and graceful figure. Her vest, of transparent yellow, is edged with blue ; and her light hair, intermixed with pearls, is bound with fillets of white : she wears bracelets, and a neck-lace of gold. ' Qualis fuit Venus Apuleius cum fuit virgo, nudo et intecto corpore, perfectam formositatem professa, nisi quod tenui pallio bombycino umbrabat spectabilem pubem.
الصفحة 240 - The capitals belong to the Grecian Doric ; the abacus, or flat stone at the top, is four feet eleven inches square, and the whole capital peculiar. inasmuch as the stone out of which it is worked includes no part of the shaft. Its great depth (one foot ten inches and a quarter) and bold projection indicate a very ancient character.* The masonry has been covered with fine stucco.
الصفحة 18 - EOMIIH, in allusion to the pomp with which Hercules celebrated his victories while awaiting his fleet at the mouth of the Sarnus. The learned Bryant derives Pompeii from the Egyptian article pi, and omphi an oracle. He observes that there were several places so called, none of which could have taken their names from Pompey the Great. In seeking the etymology of this...
الصفحة 71 - ... the care of looking to their repair was not thought unworthy the greatest men of the republic. None but those of the highest rank were eligible' to the office of superintending that service, and we find Augustus himself taking the charge of a district. The Appian Way, the most ancient as well as most noble, being distinguished by the epithet of regina viarum, as originally made by Appius Claudius the Censor, extended from Rome to Capua...
الصفحة 9 - ... twenty feet. Separating the whole into five portions, we shall find the first three to consist of pumice-stone in small pieces resembling a light white cinder, and covering the pavement to the depth of twelve feet : the next portion is composed of six parts, beginning with a stratum of small black stones, not more than...
الصفحة 10 - ... small black stones, not more than three inches in thickness ; to this succeeds a thin layer of mud, or earth which has been mixed with water, and appears to have been deposited in a liquid state ; upon this lies another thin stratum of little stones, of a mixed hue, in which blue predominates ', a second stratum of mud, separated from a third by a thin wavy line of mixed blue stones, completes the fourth portion ; while the fifth or_ highest division, consists entirely of vegetable earth, principally...
الصفحة 154 - The smallest apartments were lined with stucco, painted in the most brilliant and endless variety of colours, in compartments simply tinted with a light ground, surrounded by an ornamental margin, and sometimes embellished with a single figure or subject in the centre, or at equal distances.
الصفحة 51 - ... down to rise no more ; while those who escaped, spread the alarm, with all the circumstances of aggravation and horror which their imaginations, under the influence of fear, suggested. At length a gleam of light appeared, not of day, but fire ; which, passing, was succeeded by an intense darkness, with so heavy a shower of ashes, that it became necessary to keep the feet in motion to avoid being fixed and buried by the accumulation. On the fourth day the darkness by degrees began to clear away,...
الصفحة 107 - ... Corinthian order, but the capitals are gone. Mazois has given a restoration of it, according to his notions of the characteristics of Pompeian architecture : the existing part may be distinguished by the uneven line which bounds it. Several ill executed marble statues, now in the Royal Museum of Naples, were found in the interior, which was set round with niches : the walls were painted. In the centre is a large pedestal which probably supported the urn of the tenant. Behind this tomb is a spot...