. Pompeii : its life and art . een 35 and 40 feet. The light streaming in throughthe openings in the upper portion of the walls was evenlydistributed throughout the hall; we may assume that whenthe sun became too hot on the south side it could be shut outby curtains. In our Basilica, then, we notice a wide divergence from theideal or normal plan. Instead of a clerestory above the mainhall a proportionally greater height is given to the normal height of a basilica corridor is represented by the 76 POMPEII lower division of the walls with the attached half-columns andtheir entablatu
. Pompeii : its life and art . een 35 and 40 feet. The light streaming in throughthe openings in the upper portion of the walls was evenlydistributed throughout the hall; we may assume that whenthe sun became too hot on the south side it could be shut outby curtains. In our Basilica, then, we notice a wide divergence from theideal or normal plan. Instead of a clerestory above the mainhall a proportionally greater height is given to the normal height of a basilica corridor is represented by the 76 POMPEII lower division of the walls with the attached half-columns andtheir entablature; this, however, is here treated simply as alower member, and upon it, rather than upon the entablatureof the columns about the main hall, was placed an upperdivision of wall admitting light and air through intercolumnia-tions and windows. The tribunal at the rear is the most prominent and architectu-rally the most effective portion of the building. The base istreated in a bold, simple manner; upon it, at the front, stands a. Fig. 26. — Interior of the Basilica, looking toward the tribunal, restored. row of columns the lower portions of which show traces oflatticework. The decoration of the walls, like that of the restof the interior, imitates a veneering of colored marbles. Theshape and comparatively narrow dimensions of the elevatedroom indicate that we have here a tribunal in the strict sense, araised platform for the judge and his assistants ; in the basili-cas provided with apses the latter were large enough to makeroom both for the judicial body and for the litigants. Here thelitigants stood on the floor in front of the tribunal, and whencourt was in session the general public must have been excludedfrom this part of the corridor. The arrangement in this respect THE BASILICA 77
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