Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . in their respective corporations which thesenators exercised at Rome, their deUbera-tions may have been carried on with simi-lar solemnities, and their place of meetingin like manner have been sanctified. Ad-mitting this as the probability, the edificebefore us may be conjectured to have beenthe Senaculum; and if so, the cells were,in all probability, depositories for records ;and the platform in front, the pulpitum,whence the people were addressed \ The three columns in the RomanForum, hitherto called of Jupiter Stator,have been
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . in their respective corporations which thesenators exercised at Rome, their deUbera-tions may have been carried on with simi-lar solemnities, and their place of meetingin like manner have been sanctified. Ad-mitting this as the probability, the edificebefore us may be conjectured to have beenthe Senaculum; and if so, the cells were,in all probability, depositories for records ;and the platform in front, the pulpitum,whence the people were addressed \ The three columns in the RomanForum, hitherto called of Jupiter Stator,have been found to belong to a buildingvery similar in plan to this, but with itsportico much more lengthened. The Ro-man antiquaries consider it to have beenthe Comitium. 1 Looking towards this building, on the ground to theright of this platform, a sun-dial has been found, similar inprinciple to that in the Elgin collection. m -3jt± a. ...a. f^^^^ -=i 11, -I 1 • • • • I*« • • •• ^ £:j HAASS ®H ifani HOlEWHt ABSTDi J J > J J Air jp^ssipssis. 1-?. lUiibcl Mr>v^. bvM«C«;-nAM«rtmNi.«.Boiij ; A r ^ 1 fy 1 I PLATE. -M. LOO Jift OF C£-NER&L C B A:.!!-1 O2r£ X V| - 3S : JJ <^ \—r II -w .. « ?« -f _r
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