. Pompeii : its life and art . , which was no doubt left open in the daytime. Enter-ing, one would pass into the fauces ordinarily through the small*door at the right (p. 242), the large double doors between thevestibule and the fauces only being opened for the reception ofclients or on special occasions. The front of each ala (7, 13) is adorned with two Ionic col-umns. At the corners of the entrances are pilasters, the Corin-thian capitals of which have a striking ornament, a female head,moulded in stucco, looking out from the midst of the acanthusleaves. The eyes and hair are painted, and in
. Pompeii : its life and art . , which was no doubt left open in the daytime. Enter-ing, one would pass into the fauces ordinarily through the small*door at the right (p. 242), the large double doors between thevestibule and the fauces only being opened for the reception ofclients or on special occasions. The front of each ala (7, 13) is adorned with two Ionic col-umns. At the corners of the entrances are pilasters, the Corin-thian capitals of which have a striking ornament, a female head,moulded in stucco, looking out from the midst of the acanthusleaves. The eyes and hair are painted, and in one instance thefeatures of a bacchante can be recognized. In the right ala is an elaborate house shrine, built like a tem-ple with a facade supported by columns, raised on a podium fivefeet high. On the front of the podium is a dedicatory inscrip-tion to the Genius of the master (p. 264). The tablinum originally opened on the atrium in its full width,the entrance being set off by pilasters at the corners. It was 3°4 POMPEII. then higher; when theentrance was changedthe height was re-duced to about twelvefeet. The sixteenDoric columns aboutthe impluvium, wellpreserved for themost part, are only atrifle over fourteenfeet high. The contrast be-tween this atrium andthe lofty halls of thehouses of Sallust andthe Faun was indeedmarked. Here theatrium had becomemore like a court thana hall; yet the im-pluvium, paved withtufa, was retained,and we find the samearrangement for theflow of water as inmany houses withTuscan and tetrastyleatriums. On the edgeof the impluvium atthe rear is the pedes-tal of a fountain fig-ure which threw a jetinto a basin restingon two rectangularstandards ; the placesof these, as well asthe course of the feedpipe, are indicated on THE HOUSE OF EPIDIUS RUFUS 3°5 the plan. Behind the pedestal is a round cistern curb; anotherjet rose in the middle of the impluvium. The apartment at the right of the tablinum (20) was a diningroom. Of the smaller rooms about t
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