Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . t of the steps was the greataltar. An inscription on the east side of it, which is repeatedon the west, records that the Quatuorviri, H. PORCIUS,L. SEXTILIUS, CN. COKKELIUS, and A. COENELIUS,erected the altar at their own expense. The walls under thecolonnade were painted in vivid colours, principally on ablack ground, representing landscapes, country-houses, and DESCRIPTION OF TEMPLES. 131 inter
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . t of the steps was the greataltar. An inscription on the east side of it, which is repeatedon the west, records that the Quatuorviri, H. PORCIUS,L. SEXTILIUS, CN. COKKELIUS, and A. COENELIUS,erected the altar at their own expense. The walls under thecolonnade were painted in vivid colours, principally on ablack ground, representing landscapes, country-houses, and DESCRIPTION OF TEMPLES. 131 interiors of rooms with figures, but they are now almosteffaced. The groups of figures consisted of dancers, sacri-ficers to Priapus, battles with crocodiles, &c.; one representedHector tied to the car of Achilles, another the dispute betweenAchilles and Agamemnon, and near the ground was a longseries of dwarfish figures. In the apartment of the priest wasfound a very beautiful painting of Bacchus and Silenus. This,which may still be seen, had been removed by the ancients fromsome other place, and carefully fastened with iron crampsand cement in its present situation. In a recess, at the north-. Painting of Bacchus and Silenus, in the apartment of the priest in theTemple of Venus. east end of the temple, under the colonnade of the Forum,stood the public measures for wine, oil, and grain. Theoriginals have been carried to the Museum, and those nowseen in situ are copies. These consist of nine cylindricalholes cut in an oblong block of tufa ; there are five large forgrain, and four smaller for wine : the former had a slidingbottom, that the grain when measured might be easily re-moved. The latter are provided with tubes to draw off theliquid. These measures are placed near what we have alreadysupposed to be the horrea, or public granaries. Having thus completed the circuit of the Forum, it onlyremains to mention a few less important matters. A portico,as we have often had occasion to
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