. 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 . ating (February, 1866) nearly opposite the newbaths, in a street leading out of the Via Stabiana, and forminga continuation of those of Abundance and of Holconius,appears to be one of considerable magnificence. The pave-ment before the entrance is raised, and is ascended by threesteps. On entering a noble atrium presents itself, having animpluvium with no fewer than sixteen columns. On theright
. 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 . ating (February, 1866) nearly opposite the newbaths, in a street leading out of the Via Stabiana, and forminga continuation of those of Abundance and of Holconius,appears to be one of considerable magnificence. The pave-ment before the entrance is raised, and is ascended by threesteps. On entering a noble atrium presents itself, having animpluvium with no fewer than sixteen columns. On theright is a handsome lararium, with an inscription showingthat it was erected by two freedmen named Diadumenus tothe genius of M N and to the Lares. Fiorelli takes theletters M N to mean Marci Nostri, and thinks that they referto Marcus Epidius Sabinus, son or brother of Epidius Rufus,the owner of the house (Belazione, p. 62 and 89). Thegrounds for this conjecture are that the name of Sabinusis inscribed in red letters on a pilaster near the . are frescoes of a piping Faun, of Amor holding amirror to Venus, and of Apollo playing the lyre, with Musesin other compartments (1874). 480 Portico of the House of Diuinedes, with a view ol the Atrium beyond. CHAPTER X. SUBURBAN VILLA, The most interesting, and by far the most extensive of theprivate buildings yet discovered, is the Suburban Villa, as itis called, from its position a little way without the gates, inthe Street of the Tombs, which led to, or formed part of, thesuburb called Augustus Felix. Excavations were made inthis part of the town in 1771, and the two or three followingyears, when this villa was discovered,* It is worthy of remarkthat the plan of this edifice is in close acccord with the de-sctriptions of country houses given us by Vitruvius and others—a circumstance which tends strongly to confirm the belief * See Pomp. Ant. Hist., t. i. p. 257, s:q. SUBURBAN VILLA. 481 already expressed^ that the hous
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