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. 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 . naments appropriate to baths,and of a whimsical invention to symbolize water and floor is paved with white marble worked in mosaic, andthe ceiling appears to have been divided into white panelswithin red borders. It has six doors : one leads to the prse-furnium, marked h in the plan ; another into the small room,perhaps destined for a wardrobe; the third, by a narrowpassage {a) to th
. 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 . naments appropriate to baths,and of a whimsical invention to symbolize water and floor is paved with white marble worked in mosaic, andthe ceiling appears to have been divided into white panelswithin red borders. It has six doors : one leads to the prse-furnium, marked h in the plan ; another into the small room,perhaps destined for a wardrobe; the third, by a narrowpassage {a) to the Street of the Baths; the fourth to the tepi-darium (d); the fifth to the frigidarium (c); and the sixthalong the corridor (2) to the vestibule or portico of the frigidarium (c), or cold bath, is a round chamber,incrusted with yellow stucco, with indications here and thereof green, with a ceiling in the form of a truncated cone,which appears to have been painted blue. Near the top is awindow, marked/ in the section, by which it was lighted. In M 162 POMPEII. tlie cornice, which is coloured red, is modelled in stucco achcariot race of Cupids, preceded by Cupids on horseback andon Chariot race of Cupids in the Frigidarium.
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