Wanderings in the Roman campagna . in the last place, that therewere no folding doors to insure the privacy of therooms, but only heavy curtains, kept rigid by means oftassels, the cores of which were made of pear-shapedlumps of baked clay. Several of these weights werefound lying on the marble thresholds of the variousapartments. It is clear, therefore, that they were notused for a weavers loom, nor for fishermens nets, asis generally the case with such objects. I apologize to the reader for mentioning so manydetails, but, as I have alreadv remarked, the finding ofa Roman cottage in which we
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . in the last place, that therewere no folding doors to insure the privacy of therooms, but only heavy curtains, kept rigid by means oftassels, the cores of which were made of pear-shapedlumps of baked clay. Several of these weights werefound lying on the marble thresholds of the variousapartments. It is clear, therefore, that they were notused for a weavers loom, nor for fishermens nets, asis generally the case with such objects. I apologize to the reader for mentioning so manydetails, but, as I have alreadv remarked, the finding ofa Roman cottage in which we twentieth-century peoplecould dwell in ease and comfort is such a novel thinethat I consider it a duty to make it known outside pro-fessional circles, in the hope that some w^ealthy amateurmay be persuaded to reproduce it in its integrity, so asto give young students and young architects an objectlesson in rational cottage buildine. The statue of the Discobolus here represented wasdiscovered in the early morning of April 24, 1909,. 3 < A DO H wo < THE LAND OF PLINY THE YOUNGER 321 lying in pieces near its own pedestal at the foot of theside garden stairs. When I arrived on the spot about thehour of noon, all hope of recovering the missing headhad already been given up. Detached from the body atthe moment of its fall, it must have shared the fate ofso many other heads, which were rounded into the shapeof balls to be used in the game of boccie, or else used asweights for scales, with the help of iron rings fixed inthe top. As a rule seventy-five statues in a hundredare found headless, and likewise seventy-five heads arefound without bodies. The statue unearthed on April 24 is a copy, and avery excellent one, of the Disk-thrower of Myron, asubject in great favor with the Romans. Three otherreplicas were already known. The first is the celebrated Discobolo Lancellotti, discovered in the Lamian gar-dens on the Esquiline by the Marchesa Barbara Massimidi Palombara on January 14
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