. Pompeii : its life and art . : LT-3 Fig. 173- Section showing a part of the peristyle of thehouse of the Anchor, restored. front part, the builder constructed a kind of basement under the colonnade of the peri-style, the floor of which was thus adjusted to the level of thefloors in the front rooms; the garden and the floor of the base-ment were on the same level as the street at the rear. Thecolonnade was higher on the north than on the other threesides (Fig. 173). The effect of the whole was far from 11 n-pleasing. Whether the projections seen in the niches below, atthe level of the garden,
. Pompeii : its life and art . : LT-3 Fig. 173- Section showing a part of the peristyle of thehouse of the Anchor, restored. front part, the builder constructed a kind of basement under the colonnade of the peri-style, the floor of which was thus adjusted to the level of thefloors in the front rooms; the garden and the floor of the base-ment were on the same level as the street at the rear. Thecolonnade was higher on the north than on the other threesides (Fig. 173). The effect of the whole was far from 11 n-pleasing. Whether the projections seen in the niches below, atthe level of the garden, are pedestals or small altars cannot bedetermined. The niches at the front end were made larger, and 546 IOMlKII were three in number. In the middle niche was a diminutivetemple ; the other two had the form of an apse, and containedfountain figures. Houses were sometimes enlarged at the expense of neigh-boring dwellings, which, in some cases, were destroyed to the. Fig. 174. — Plan of the house of the Citharist. 6. West atrium with connecting rooms, entered 42. Kitchen. from Stabian Street. 47. North atrium, entered from the continuation 17, 32. Peristyles belonging with the west atrium of Abbondanza Street. 40,41. Bath —tepidarium and caldarium. 56. Peristyle belonging with the north atrium foundations, in others remodelled or incorporated with slightchange. An example is the house of the Citharist, which fillsthe greater part of the third Insula in Region I, on the east sideof Stabian Street. A bronze statue of Apollo playing thecithara, found in the middle peristyle (Fig. 174, 17), gave its OTHER NOTEWORTHY HOUSES 347 name to the house. If is apparently a faithful copy of a Greekmasterpiece at Sparta, and is now in the Naples Museum. Thehouse is sometimes referred to as that of Popidius Secundus. There are two atriums (6, 47) and three peristyles (17, 32, 56).A large part of the house, the west atrium (6), with the connect-
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