Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . ucretius, 4—498. They were probablyat first masks : Personae pallentis hiatum.—Juvenal, 3—175. Pliny, 35. * For the only published specimen see the Antiquities of Attica. 222 POMPEIANA. covering of the roof; but still adhering to theoriginal form and detail. His contemporariesdecreed an inscription to his memory, wherebythe honour of so ingenious an invention mightbe secured to him . The tiles of the temple at Ecbatana were of pillaged them; but Antiochus foundsome still remaining-. In the lower part of the plate
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . ucretius, 4—498. They were probablyat first masks : Personae pallentis hiatum.—Juvenal, 3—175. Pliny, 35. * For the only published specimen see the Antiquities of Attica. 222 POMPEIANA. covering of the roof; but still adhering to theoriginal form and detail. His contemporariesdecreed an inscription to his memory, wherebythe honour of so ingenious an invention mightbe secured to him . The tiles of the temple at Ecbatana were of pillaged them; but Antiochus foundsome still remaining-. In the lower part of the plate is a terra cotta, eavestiles, in which the simple drawing of Athens,more florid in Ionian specimens, is carried a stepfarther: complicated, but distinct from the con-fusion of the Roman, it appears the last point towhich the Greek style of ornament can be carried. The vpaTTTo; TUTTo;, or picta sigilla, in the very corrupted frag-ment of the T^^I7^;^.>I of Euripides, preserved in Galen, were in allprobability the painted antefixes. Poly BITS, 10— POMPEIANA. 223
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