. 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 . was the richness of its furniture and HOUSE OF THE FAUN. 395 decorations, and especially of its mosaics. In an apartmentin the middle of the peristyle was found the famous mosaicof the battle of Issus, now in the Museum at Naples, whichwe have already described. The threshold of one of thedoors leading into the atrium had also a mosaic, unique bothfor its execution and for its state of preservat
. 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 . was the richness of its furniture and HOUSE OF THE FAUN. 395 decorations, and especially of its mosaics. In an apartmentin the middle of the peristyle was found the famous mosaicof the battle of Issus, now in the Museum at Naples, whichwe have already described. The threshold of one of thedoors leading into the atrium had also a mosaic, unique bothfor its execution and for its state of preservation. It is aboutnine and a half feet long by nearly two broad, and displaysa grand festoon of flowers and fruits, with tragic masks andtympana. In another apartment was the beautiful mosaic ofAcratus, mounted on a panther, of which we annex a have been removed to the Neapolitan Museum buttwo or three mosaics still remain in situ. One of these in aroom in the peristyle, representing a large lion, is very muchdamaged. A smaller mosaic in one of the al* is in a betterstate of preservation. It represents thrfee doves and a casket,from which one of the doves is stealing a pearl In the tablinum of this house was found the skeleton of awoman, whose attitude vividly recalls one of those agonizingscenes which characterized the last days of Pompeii. Sheappears to have attempted to escape, but driven back by theoverwhelming shower of ashes, to have taken refuge in thetablinum, after throwing on the pavement all her ornaments, 396 POMPEII. her mundus muliehris. The apartment, however, afforded ncsecure shelter. The flooring of the room above began to fallin, and her uplifted arms betray an attempt to support thesuperincumbent mass which crushed her. In an adjoiningroom were other skeletons, among them that of an old the jewellery found, which had probably belongedto the woman, were two gold bracelets of a serpentine form,each weighing a pound; several gold
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