. 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 . other articles of food. The adjoining building has been supposed by some anti-quaries to have been the place of meeting of the Augustals;by others, a temple dedicated to three deities, on account ofthree recesses, apparently for statues, in three sides of thebuilding. It may with more probability be considered theSenaculum, or place of meeting for the senate, or rather decu-rions ; its spacious
. 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 . other articles of food. The adjoining building has been supposed by some anti-quaries to have been the place of meeting of the Augustals;by others, a temple dedicated to three deities, on account ofthree recesses, apparently for statues, in three sides of thebuilding. It may with more probability be considered theSenaculum, or place of meeting for the senate, or rather decu-rions ; its spacious area, eighty-three feet by sixty, adapts itwell to this purpose, and the niches in the wall may have beenmeant to receive statues of distinguished magistrates. Tlieportico of this edifice was composed of fluted white marblecolumns of the Ionic order, its front ranging with the por-tico of the Forum without interrupting the promenade was a staircase at the north end of it, which probablyTed to the upper gallery, or ambulatory ; and a passage mayalso have been formed over the immediate entrance to theSenaculum, communicating with the ambulatory on the other DESCHIPTION OF TEMPLES. Ill.
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