. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 146. — View of the house of the Tragic Poet, looking from the middle of the atrium through the tablinum toward the shrine at the end of the the right, the andron. In the foreground, a cistern curb, at the rear of the impluvium. rially from that which we have found in the houses of the pre-Roman time. As our section (Fig. 147) shows, ail the parts ofthe house are comparatively low; the ceiling of th 1 atrium andof the large dining room at the rear (15) were only a fewfeet higher than the colonnade of the peristyle. The entrancesof the ala — here
. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 146. — View of the house of the Tragic Poet, looking from the middle of the atrium through the tablinum toward the shrine at the end of the the right, the andron. In the foreground, a cistern curb, at the rear of the impluvium. rially from that which we have found in the houses of the pre-Roman time. As our section (Fig. 147) shows, ail the parts ofthe house are comparatively low; the ceiling of th 1 atrium andof the large dining room at the rear (15) were only a fewfeet higher than the colonnade of the peristyle. The entrancesof the ala — here there is but one — and of the tablinum arenot adorned with pilasters; plain wooden casings were usedinstead. The second storv rooms are not an afterthought but THE HOUSE OF THE TRAGIC POET 509 a part of the architects design ; the stairways (4) leading tothem are symmctricall) placed at the sides of the atrium. Therewas no upper floor, however, over the fauces, the atrium, or thetablinum. To a modern visitor thisdwelling
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