Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . f o.*- made entirely of marble., In the case of those com-J^^^JE; j posed of the other varietiesof stone already named,the surface was commonlycoated either with stuccoor with marble facings at-tached by hook-like clampsfixed into the main struc-ture. Externally the ap- bt-ilding Materials, pearaucc of Rome — SO far(From Middieton.) ^g -^g public buildings are concerned — was that of a city of marble. The presentappearance of the ruins is due to the marble facingshaving been for centuries torn away, either to be usedelsewhere, or more often to be bu
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . f o.*- made entirely of marble., In the case of those com-J^^^JE; j posed of the other varietiesof stone already named,the surface was commonlycoated either with stuccoor with marble facings at-tached by hook-like clampsfixed into the main struc-ture. Externally the ap- bt-ilding Materials, pearaucc of Rome — SO far(From Middieton.) ^g -^g public buildings are concerned — was that of a city of marble. The presentappearance of the ruins is due to the marble facingshaving been for centuries torn away, either to be usedelsewhere, or more often to be burned down for / CHAPTER IX THE ROMAN TOWN HOUSE We have taken a general survey of the city of Rome,its open places, streets, and public buildings. Wemay now look at the houses in which the Romanslived, and at the furniture to be expected inside them. Mention has already been made of the large andlofty tenement houses or blocks, often mere humanrookeries, which were let out in lodgings to those whodid not possess sufficient means to occupy a separatedomicile of their own. These buildings, which werenaturally to be found in the busier streets and morethickly inhabited quarters, were not, however, thehabitations most typical of the romanized were created by the special circumstances of thecity, and might recur in other towns wherever theconditions were similar. The cramped island part ofTyre, for example, possessed houses even loftier thanthose of Rome. Where there was sufficient room —that is to say, where there was no large populationcrowded into a space limited by nature or by walls of
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