. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . here Avere no Avin-doAvs nor communications between thechambers ; but all the doors openedupon a common gallery. The barracksof Hadrians villa w^ere covered AvithA^ry solid arches ; those of Otricolionly Avith planks. Similar barracksoccur at Rome in the baths of Antoni-nus Caracalla, and opposite the Cam-pidoglio, near M. PuTEALS. The famous Puteal Li-bonis at Rome, for taking oaths, in themorning only, ^ is represented uponthe re\erse of a medal of Libo**. Apresumed Puteal at Pompeii is a smallro
. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . here Avere no Avin-doAvs nor communications between thechambers ; but all the doors openedupon a common gallery. The barracksof Hadrians villa w^ere covered AvithA^ry solid arches ; those of Otricolionly Avith planks. Similar barracksoccur at Rome in the baths of Antoni-nus Caracalla, and opposite the Cam-pidoglio, near M. PuTEALS. The famous Puteal Li-bonis at Rome, for taking oaths, in themorning only, ^ is represented uponthe re\erse of a medal of Libo**. Apresumed Puteal at Pompeii is a smallround templet of open columns, anddome-roof, iipo7i a basement of steps,inclosing an altar.* This last is hollow;because Putcals could only be erectedupon a spot Avhich had been struck bylightning, and Avas not, Avithout irreli-ffion, to be coAered. Enc. Monf. Suppl. iv. p. vi. c. 3. Latium,193. Peunanfs Whiteford, 112, 113, where aplate. ^ A plan in Guattanis Monuin. AnticU. >• Enr. Pettini^all on Juries, i;)2-3. x\gostini, sopr. le Medcglie. Di;d. -Ito. Ponipeiana, pref. Side of a Street at Pompeii. A. S/wps. The roofs and rath arc modern. CHAPTER V. PRIVATE EDIFICES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. The first habitations of mankindwere cabins, grottoes, or caves. Abra-ham in the cave of Machjielah, andTroglodytes, wall occur to recollec-tion. Virgil says, that before Troyand Pergamean citadels existed, mendwelt in the bottoms of vallies.^ Some of these early cavern-dwellingsexist at Ispica in Sicily; and, as be- * ^n. iii. V. 110. ^ Denon thus describesthem at length: On the side of a perpendicularrock, which skirts a valley, is a prodigious numberof little chambers, indented in the rock, in storiesof ten or twelve feet, piled over each other. Thereare as many doors as chambers, all of the samesize, and almost all of them of tlie same workman-ship, and evidently designed for the same opposite side had been less worked and inha-bited ; but this, from its being m
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