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 . circular recesses, one oneach side; and beyond these again, at the extreme end of thebuilding, by raised platforms, the staircases to which stillremain. Hence orators might have harangued an audiencesheltered under the portico, and edicts relative to commercemight have been publicly read. The entrance to the area is through a passage, on each sideof which are other passages, with a staircase on t
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 . circular recesses, one oneach side; and beyond these again, at the extreme end of thebuilding, by raised platforms, the staircases to which stillremain. Hence orators might have harangued an audiencesheltered under the portico, and edicts relative to commercemight have been publicly read. The entrance to the area is through a passage, on each sideof which are other passages, with a staircase on the rightleading to galleries above. The entrance to the back of thebuilding, where is the statue of Eumachia, is from the Streetof Abundance, forming the southern boundary of the build-ing. Here is a small chamber for the doorkeeper, throughwhich is seen a flight of steps ascending to the floor of thechalcidicum and crypto-portico; the walls on each side of thesteps are painted in black panels, divided by red the staircase are the remains of a thermopolium, or * See Dyers Some, pp. 191 and 198. f See Orerbeck, B. i. S. 122, and the inscription in Mommsen. No. 2229. 120 Urn for warm decoctions drunk in the Thermopolia
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