. Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers . Portrait of a Pompeian baker and his wife. In themiddle are two small glass-cases containing the most recent findsand a bronze tripod inlaid with silver. We now return to R. IV, and turn to the left into the series ofback-rooms. Room VII. 9302, 9304. Niobe and her children. —Room vm. 8924, 8919. Scenes from the cult of Isis; 112, between the Pompeians and Nucerines in the amphitheatreof Pompeii; 113,197. Curious caricature of an incident resemblingthe Judgment of Solomon; 1
. Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers . Portrait of a Pompeian baker and his wife. In themiddle are two small glass-cases containing the most recent findsand a bronze tripod inlaid with silver. We now return to R. IV, and turn to the left into the series ofback-rooms. Room VII. 9302, 9304. Niobe and her children. —Room vm. 8924, 8919. Scenes from the cult of Isis; 112, between the Pompeians and Nucerines in the amphitheatreof Pompeii; 113,197. Curious caricature of an incident resemblingthe Judgment of Solomon; 111,479. Destruction of Niobe and herchildren. — Room X. 9009. Wounded ^Eneas ; 9010. Trojan horse(night scene); 120,032. Philoctetus; 119,691. Judgment of Paris;111,436. Jason and Pelias. From R. VII a door leads to the Reserved Cabinet (OggettiOsceni)^ to which male adults only are admitted by special per-mission of the director. It contains marble sculptures, statuettes,and utensils in bronze and terracotta, paintings, and mosaics,many of them showing considerable humour and artistic merit. I ill. First Floor. NAPLES. 4. Route. 77 C. First Floor. From tlie top of the stairs we first turn to the left to the To the right of the passage which we first enter are the twoSale del Commestibili. The glass-cases in the first of these con-tain articles of food and grain, and Pigments from Pompeii. In themiddle, to the right, is a pillar with scenes from the Fullonica(fullers establishment) at Pompeii, referring to the fullers art, andshowing the owl as the symbol of Minerva, the patron goddess of thefullers. On the wall, to the left of the entrance, are banqueting andtavern scenes; to the right are dramatic scenes. Among the pic-tures of still-life and animals the most noticeable is, perhaps, thatof the birds to the left of the window. — The glass-cases in thesecond room contain Textile Fabrics from Pompeii and a charminglittle head of a woman (opposite the window). In th
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