. 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 . st is coated withwhite stucco. The floor is elevated two steps above thelevel of the tablinum. A curious religious painting, now almost efiaced, wasfound in the kitchen, representing the worship offered to theLares, under whose protection and custody the provisionsand all the cooking utensils were placed. In the centre isa sacrifice in honour of those deities, who are representedbelow in the usu
. 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 . st is coated withwhite stucco. The floor is elevated two steps above thelevel of the tablinum. A curious religious painting, now almost efiaced, wasfound in the kitchen, representing the worship offered to theLares, under whose protection and custody the provisionsand all the cooking utensils were placed. In the centre isa sacrifice in honour of those deities, who are representedbelow in the usual form of two huge serpents brooding overan altar. There is something remarkable in the upper * Doncildson, I HOUSES OF PANSA AND SALLUST. 325 figures, of which Mazois, from whom our engraving is copied,has given no explanation. The female figure in the centreholds a cornucopia, and each of the male figures holds asmall vase in the hand nearer to the altar, and a horn inthe other. All the faces in his engraving are quite black,and the heads of the male figures are surrounded with some-thing resembling a glory. Their dress in general, andespecially their boots, which are just like the Hungarian. A religious Painting in the Kitcken of the House of Panso, boots now worn on the stage, appear different from anythingwhich is to be met with elsewhere. Are these figures meant forthe Lares themselves ? On each side are represented differentsorts of eatables. On the left a bunch of small birds, a stringof fish, a boar with a girth about his body, and a magnifi-cently curling tail, and a few loaves, or rather cakes, of theprecise pattern of some which have been found in Pompeii:on the right, an eel spitted on a wire, a ham, a boars head,and a joint of meat, which, as pig-meat seems to have beenin request here, we may conjecture to be a loin of pork; atleast it is as like that as anything else. It is suspended bya reed, as is still done at Kome. The execution of thispainting is coarse and
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