Herculaneum, past, present & future . le beyond the churchof Pugliano towards Vesuvius, and therein are found mosaicpavements and rosso antico marbles, not to mention the paintedwalls, which are sold publicly to strangers, the blame ofwhich is afterwards put upon Pompeii. And since thisrepresents a country house, and I think it has never beenexplored, it is therefore probable that remarkable objectsmay be found there, for which reason I have decided thatI am doing my duty in informing your Excellency of it,in order that suitable arrangements may be made to stopthe continuance of the excavation
Herculaneum, past, present & future . le beyond the churchof Pugliano towards Vesuvius, and therein are found mosaicpavements and rosso antico marbles, not to mention the paintedwalls, which are sold publicly to strangers, the blame ofwhich is afterwards put upon Pompeii. And since thisrepresents a country house, and I think it has never beenexplored, it is therefore probable that remarkable objectsmay be found there, for which reason I have decided thatI am doing my duty in informing your Excellency of it,in order that suitable arrangements may be made to stopthe continuance of the excavation, which was begun a longtime ago. Again, the temple marked to the south-east in LaVegas plan is held, as we have said, by Dall Osso to be theperistyle of a country house. Last of all, a brief sketch must be given of the moststriking discoveries of the Casa dei Papiri. The wholesubject has been worthily treated in an admirable andsumptuous work by the distinguished Italian professors, ^ Ruggiero, Scavi, etc., p. 497. - See ib. p. WALL-PAINTING. CHEIRON AND ACHILLES. ILAIt 16. CHAP. I TOPOGRAPHY 8i Doiiienico Comparetti and Giulio de Petra.^ Our knowledgeof this villa is based chiefly upon the surviving officialdocuments, but additional information may be gleaned fromletters of Camillo Paderni (the curator of the Portici Museum)and Monsignor Ottavio Bayardi, the publications of the Accademia Ercolanese, and the writings of Winckelmannand Martorelli. Further details concerning the finds made inthe Villa will be found in Appendix IV., and the questionof its ownership will be dealt with in Chapter II. Herewe can only summarise the main results. The site of the villa is recorded with the greatestexactitude, and it could no doubt be reopened The facade,^ with the principal entrance, facedsouth-west, with an exterior portico of twelve columns (if theposition assigned to the eight marked in Webers plan iscorrect). Next came a large andron^ and beyond that a Tus
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