. Pompeii : its life and art . te of thewalls. The building materialsused were the Sarno limestoneand gray tufa. The second period may bedesignated as the Period of theLimestone Atriums, so char-acterized from the peculiarconstruction of a number ofhouses found in different partsof the city. On the side facingthe street these houses havewalls of ashlar work of Sarnolimestone (Fig. 10), but theinner walls are of limestoneframework (Fig. 9). Almost no ornamental formsbelonging to this period havecome down to us ; so far only asingle column has been found,built into the wall of a is of t
. Pompeii : its life and art . te of thewalls. The building materialsused were the Sarno limestoneand gray tufa. The second period may bedesignated as the Period of theLimestone Atriums, so char-acterized from the peculiarconstruction of a number ofhouses found in different partsof the city. On the side facingthe street these houses havewalls of ashlar work of Sarnolimestone (Fig. 10), but theinner walls are of limestoneframework (Fig. 9). Almost no ornamental formsbelonging to this period havecome down to us ; so far only asingle column has been found,built into the wall of a is of the Dovic style, andnee formed part of a portico that ran along the west side ofthe small open space at the northwest corner of Stabian andNola streets; it is thus the sole remnant of a public build-ing. In the only complete house that has survived from thisperiod, the house of the Surgeon, there was a portico in frontof the gardent but the roof was supported by square pillars,not by columns. There is no trace of wall Fig. 10.— Fa9ade of Sarno limestone,house of the Surgeon. o 4o POMPEII Characteristic as the construction of the limestone atriums is,it is difficult to determine to what age they belong. The be-ginning of the period cannot be determined even approxi-mately. The end, however, is fixed by the earlier limit of thenext period, the Second Punic War. We may, therefore,assign the houses with the limestone atriums to a period justpreceding this war; reckoning in round numbers, they werebuilt before 200 In the third, or Tufa Period, came the climax of the develop-ment of Pompeian architecture prior to the Roman favorite building material was the gray tufa. With the exception of the Greek temple mentioned above,all the public buildings of Pompeii that do not belong to thetime of the Roman colony have a homogeneous character; alist of them would include the colonnade about the Forum, theBasilica, the temples of Apollo and of Jupiter, the Larg
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