The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . STOVE IN THE KITCHEN OF THE HOUSE OF RELIGIOUS PAINTING IN THE KITCHEN OF THE HOUSE OF PANSA. THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 45 the details. Further down, in the same Ime of street, is a sister-house, thatof the Faiui, so called from an admirable little statuette of a dancing Faun,one of the bijoux of Pompeian sculpture, which graced its fountain. Thishouse, like that of Pansa, fills an entire insula of about the same dimensions,and
The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . STOVE IN THE KITCHEN OF THE HOUSE OF RELIGIOUS PAINTING IN THE KITCHEN OF THE HOUSE OF PANSA. THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 45 the details. Further down, in the same Ime of street, is a sister-house, thatof the Faiui, so called from an admirable little statuette of a dancing Faun,one of the bijoux of Pompeian sculpture, which graced its fountain. Thishouse, like that of Pansa, fills an entire insula of about the same dimensions,and appears to have been entirely m the occupation of the owner, while partof Pansas house seems to have been let out for shops and lodgings. Thehouse of the Faun, besides other minor differences, has two distmct atria,and the peristyle has its longer side across the breadth instead of the depthof the house. The garden, too, is completely sm-romided by a portico, whichstill contains upwards of a hundred amphorw, or wine-jars; whence it hasbeen conjectured that the owner was a wine merchant. It was a commonpractice enough for the owners of these large mansions to let out parts of themthat adjoined the stre
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