Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . tion. K 2 132 POMPEIANA. By this we are informed, that it wasrepaired and dedicated to Isis by Popi-dius\ who then bore the office of Meddixtuticus. PLATE XIII. View of the entrance to the city from the right is the uninscribed semi-circularseat (18): between which and the gate is thealcove wherein was found a skeleton with aspear. Opposite is the pedestal, supposed tohave sustained a bronze colossal statue. The centre arch of the gate-way no longer exists,but the two side entrances remain perfect. TheIonic columns
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . tion. K 2 132 POMPEIANA. By this we are informed, that it wasrepaired and dedicated to Isis by Popi-dius\ who then bore the office of Meddixtuticus. PLATE XIII. View of the entrance to the city from the right is the uninscribed semi-circularseat (18): between which and the gate is thealcove wherein was found a skeleton with aspear. Opposite is the pedestal, supposed tohave sustained a bronze colossal statue. The centre arch of the gate-way no longer exists,but the two side entrances remain perfect. TheIonic columns, represented against that on theleft, do not appear there in any of the earlyviews; although the oldest Ciceroni on the spotdeclare they were there found. They are now 1 It has been remarked, that the Neapolitans are yet aptto substitute the R for the D : while it would appear, from thetestimony of Cicero, Quinctilian, Varro, and Macrobius, thatthe former letter had taken place, in many words, of the moreancient S : as in Papirius, anciently Papisius, mni>.
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