. Pompeii : its life and art . , not only for ashlar work in facades, but also forcolumns and entablatures. The surface of the tufa was coatedwith a layer of fine white stucco, which gave it the appearanceof marble. The use of marble for building purposes, however,is foreign to this period; and it speaks well for the culture ofthe Oscan Pompeians that they had pleasure in beauty of formabove richness of material. The fourth period covers the earlier decades of the Romancolony, from 80 to near the end of the Republic. Accord-ing to inscriptions which are still extant, soon after the year80
. Pompeii : its life and art . , not only for ashlar work in facades, but also forcolumns and entablatures. The surface of the tufa was coatedwith a layer of fine white stucco, which gave it the appearanceof marble. The use of marble for building purposes, however,is foreign to this period; and it speaks well for the culture ofthe Oscan Pompeians that they had pleasure in beauty of formabove richness of material. The fourth period covers the earlier decades of the Romancolony, from 80 to near the end of the Republic. Accord-ing to inscriptions which are still extant, soon after the year80 a wealthy colonist, Gains Quinctius Valgus, when duumvirwith Marcus Porcius as colleague, built the Small Theatre, andafterwards, when quinquennial duumvir with the same col-league, the Amphitheatre also. Both structures have the quasi-reticulate facing (Fig. 11); and several other buildings in whichthe same style of masonry is found without doubt belong tothe same period — the Baths near the Forum, the temple of 42 POMPEII. Zeus Milichius, a building just inside the Porta Marina, andapparently the hall at the southeast corner of the Forum,which we shall identify as the Comitium ; with these shouldbe included also the original temple of Isis, which was destroyedby the earthquake of 63 Few houses dating from thisperiod have been discovered; the provision made by the pre-ceding period in this respect had been so generous that newhouses were not needed. From the aesthetic point of view the fourth period falls farbelow that just preceding; the exhaustion of resources and thedecline of taste due to the long and terrible war are unmistaka-ble. Theatre, Amphitheatre, andBaths were alike built for imme-diate use, with crude and scantyornamentation; and wherericher ornament was applied, asin the case of the temple of Isis,it could not for a moment becompared with that of the TufaPeriod in beauty and finish. The wall decoration of thefourth period is of the secondPompeian style,
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