. 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 . orm, two hundicd and twenty feetin length by eighty, and corresponds in some particulars with * The destination of this building, which is pretty pla- from its construc-tion, is accidentally confirmed by a graffito of the word JJassilica (thoughsomewhat misspelt) near one of its side entrances. See Wuidsworth, Inscrip^tiones Pompeiance, p. 14; Garrucci, Graffiti cU Pompct, p. 81. Anothergraffito
. 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 . orm, two hundicd and twenty feetin length by eighty, and corresponds in some particulars with * The destination of this building, which is pretty pla- from its construc-tion, is accidentally confirmed by a graffito of the word JJassilica (thoughsomewhat misspelt) near one of its side entrances. See Wuidsworth, Inscrip^tiones Pompeiance, p. 14; Garrucci, Graffiti cU Pompct, p. 81. Anothergraffito, bearing the date of the consulship of Lepidus anu Catulus, showsthat the building was older than 79. DESCRIPTION OF TEMPLES. 125 the usual ancient description of that building. It is placedon the warmest side of the Forum, at its south-west angle,and is entered through a vestibule having five doorways ofmasonry, in which grooves have been cut for the insertion ofwooden door-jambs. From the vestibule the area of thebasilica is reached by a flight of four steps, leading throughfive doorways, as in the vestibule. The roof was supportedby a peristyle of twenty-eight large Ionic columns, con-. Plan showing the construction of the columns of the Basilica. structed of brick. Thus the space between the exterior wallsand the peristyle was converted into a covered gallery, wherethe suitors were sheltered from the weather, while the lightwas admitted hypaethrally from the centre of the tribunal was placed at the furthest end of the building,and on each side of it were two square chalcidica; a smallerorder of half columns was attached to the walls, and fourwhole columns flank and divide the principal entrance ; ateach corner of the building two columns are joined together,something in the manner of a Gothic pier. This we believeto be a unique example of columns being thus united inGrecian architecture. Upon this smaller order the joists ofthe upper gallery must have re
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