The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . in the Street ofAbtmdance, also called the Street of the Silver-smiths, leading out of the south-east cornerof the Forum; but a tradesman of Londonor Paris, or even of a good provincial town,would tmn up his nose at them. At theangle of the two streets, just behiad thefountain shown in the photographic view,was a small shop, called by some a thermo-polium, or shop for the sale of hot walls were gaudUy painted in blue pan
The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . in the Street ofAbtmdance, also called the Street of the Silver-smiths, leading out of the south-east cornerof the Forum; but a tradesman of Londonor Paris, or even of a good provincial town,would tmn up his nose at them. At theangle of the two streets, just behiad thefountain shown in the photographic view,was a small shop, called by some a thermo-polium, or shop for the sale of hot walls were gaudUy painted in blue panelswith red borders, and towards the street wasa counter cased with maible. The stainsleft on these counters, apparently by wetdiinking-giasses, have led to the identification,or supposed identification, of several suchshops. A curious vessel for making thesewarm drinks has been discovered. It some-what resembles a modern urn, as wUl beseen from the accompanying cut of it, butis much more complicated. The annexedfigm*e shows a section of the urn with its conical cover; a a is the bodyof the urn, b a small cylindrical furnace in the centre. It has four holes. URN FOR WARM DECOCTIONS DRANK IN THETIIERMOPOLIA.
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