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 . Bas-relief Tyche. interesting particulars concerning the naval architecture ofthe Romans. The ends of the vessel are remarkable. Theprow is of singular shape, not clearly defined, and does notpresent the formidable beak of a ship of war : it is surmountedby a bust of Minerva. The poop ends in a swan or goosesneck (y^i/iVkos), from which there floats a flag: another flagis to be seen
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 . Bas-relief Tyche. interesting particulars concerning the naval architecture ofthe Romans. The ends of the vessel are remarkable. Theprow is of singular shape, not clearly defined, and does notpresent the formidable beak of a ship of war : it is surmountedby a bust of Minerva. The poop ends in a swan or goosesneck (y^i/iVkos), from which there floats a flag: another flagis to be seen at the mast-head. The yard consists of twospars rudely lashed together. At the mast-head is somethingresembling a large block, in which ropes are fixed, whichMazois says are the halyards. In his engraving they lookmore like shrouds; and indeed a boy is making use of themas shrouds, and climbing up them. The crew consists ofchildren wrho are furling the sail. A man sitting at thepoop holds the rudder, and is said to represent explanations of this sculpture are given—one literal, 520 POMPEII. TOMBS. 521 that it is merely indicative of the profession of Mnnatius ;the other allegorical, that it symholises the arrival of thetossed ship of life in a quiet haven. The reader may choosebetween the two, as the gods have made him poetical or pro-saic* On the opposite side of the cippus is the bisellium, orseat of honour, ranted to Munatius.
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