Wanderings in the Roman campagna . ting-room, the side ones to bedrooms connected withdressing-rooms. On either side of the French windows,on marble pedestals, stood vases for flowering shrubs,such as the oleander, pomegranate, and lemon. Therewere two more bedrooms within the cottage, a dining-room, a veranda, and a bath-room. In its compact-ness and its sense of comfort, as well as its proximityto Laurentum and to the sea, this villino may betaken as an illustration of the one owned by Plinyon the same road and on the same shore. QueenElenas cottage — as it will henceforth be known inarchaeo
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . ting-room, the side ones to bedrooms connected withdressing-rooms. On either side of the French windows,on marble pedestals, stood vases for flowering shrubs,such as the oleander, pomegranate, and lemon. Therewere two more bedrooms within the cottage, a dining-room, a veranda, and a bath-room. In its compact-ness and its sense of comfort, as well as its proximityto Laurentum and to the sea, this villino may betaken as an illustration of the one owned by Plinyon the same road and on the same shore. QueenElenas cottage — as it will henceforth be known inarchaeological manuals — was rebuilt in the year 14-2A. D. on the site of an older one, by a person of goodtaste and modest means, probably by an official of thecourt of Antoninus Pius, who was at that time the rulerof the Empire. Whoever this person was, he showedhimself to be a clever builder and a clever landscapegardener, judging from the graceful pattern of the mosaic THE LAND OF PLINY THE YOUNGER LATO VERSO LA VIA SEVERIANA 317. GIARDINO SUL MARE Plan ot the Roman cottage discovered by Queen Elena on the coast of Lauren-turn. The Discobolus was found near its pedestal at the place marked G and marble floors, and from the picturesque arrange-ment of the three staircases descending to the gardenand the sea. The lodge was fit to be inhabited at allseasons of the year, owing to the simple and efficient 318 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA precautions taken by its designer to have it thoroughlywarmed and ventilated. The heating was done bymeans of a furnace, placed under the bath-room orcalidarium, which a slave could light and keep goingfrom the outside, through an underground passagewhich opened on the kitchen garden, the hot air beingforced through the hypocausts of the apartment withthe aid of flues opening on the roof. The house wasone-storied, no traces of stairs having been noticed any-where. Kitchen, pantry, larder, laundry, sleeping-roomsfor servants and slaves, and othe
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