. 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 . ly is included,is that hereafter to be described as the House of the Quasstor,otherwise called the House of the Dioscuri, or sons of Jupiter,Castor and Pollux. Beyond it are the indications of a crossstreet on each side of the main one. In the distance isMount Lactarius. The name of the street was derived froma painting on one of the houses of Mercury bearing a purse,as in the opposite cut. The
. 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 . ly is included,is that hereafter to be described as the House of the Quasstor,otherwise called the House of the Dioscuri, or sons of Jupiter,Castor and Pollux. Beyond it are the indications of a crossstreet on each side of the main one. In the distance isMount Lactarius. The name of the street was derived froma painting on one of the houses of Mercury bearing a purse,as in the opposite cut. The street running from the Temple of Fortune to theForum, called the Street of the Forum, and forming a con- * This view, togethei- with some others which will occur in the course of thevolume, is copied, by permission of the publishers, from the second series ofSir William Gells Pompeiana. At present, however, the prospect is sonievvha^fvltered, owing principally to the disappearance of the trees. POSITION OF POMPEII. 75 tinuation of that of Mercury, has furnished an unusually richharvest of various utensils. A long list of these is given bySir W. Gell, according to which there were found no less. Vignette of Mercury. than two hundred and fifty small bottles of inferior glass,with numerous other articles of the same material, which itwould be tedious to particularise. A marble statue of a laughing faun, two bronze figures ofMercury, the one three inches and the other four inches high,and a statue of a female nine inches high, were also found,together with many bronze lamps and stands. We may addvases, basins with handles, paterae, bells, elastic springs,hinges, buckles for harness, a lock, an inkstand, and a strigil;gold earrings and a silver spoon; an oval cauldron, a sauce-pan, a mould for pastry, and a weight of alabaster used inspinning, with its ivory axis remaining. The cataloguefinishes with a leaden wfeight, forty-nine lamps of commonclay ornamented with masks and animals
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