. Pompeii : its life and art . opening on the second peristyle. The two rooms ofthe bath, tepidarium and caldarium, were provided with hollowfloors and walls, and were heated from the kitchen, into whichthe draft vents (p. 182) opened. The kitchen is of unusual size. A niche for the images ofthe household gods was placed in the wall at the left, so highup that it could only have been reached by means of a front is shaped to resemble the facade of a small temple,and in it is a small altar of terra cotta for the burning ofincense. CHAPTER XXXVI A HOUSE NEAR THE PORTA MARINA The height
. Pompeii : its life and art . opening on the second peristyle. The two rooms ofthe bath, tepidarium and caldarium, were provided with hollowfloors and walls, and were heated from the kitchen, into whichthe draft vents (p. 182) opened. The kitchen is of unusual size. A niche for the images ofthe household gods was placed in the wall at the left, so highup that it could only have been reached by means of a front is shaped to resemble the facade of a small temple,and in it is a small altar of terra cotta for the burning ofincense. CHAPTER XXXVI A HOUSE NEAR THE PORTA MARINA The height of the important rooms can be accurately deter-mined in so few houses of the Tufa Period, that special impor-tance attaches to a house on the edge of the city north of the Porta Marina (), in which notmerely the three-quar-ter columns at the en-trance of the tablinumand alae, but also thepilasters at the cornersof the fauces and partof the Ionic columns ofthe peristyle are seenin their full atrium is the best. Fig. 139. — Plan of the house near the Porta Marina. preserved of any in the large pre-Romanhouses, and the height of the ceiling in several of the adjoiningrooms is clearly indicated. The house lies about seventy pacesnorth of the Strada della Marina, on the last street leading to theright. It is without a name and is seldom visited. Neither the decoration, renewed in the second style and with-out paintings, nor the arrangement of the rooms (Fig. 139) re-quires extended comment. There are two atriums, the smallerwith the domestic apartments being at the left and entered directlyfrom the street. The fauces of the other are of unusual width,being about two fifths of the width of the atrium. The alae areat the middle of the sides, as in the house of Epidius Rufus andthe smaller atrium of the house of the Faun. At the sides of 292 A HOUSE NEAR THE PORTA MARINA 293 the tablinum are large windows opening into two dining rooms,which are entered from the peris
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