. 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 . te the disposition of the otherbakery. In the centre of the large apartment, 26, are threemills, a. a, a, and near them a large table, h. Flanking theentrance to the oven, /, are three large vases, and in the left-hand corner is a kneading-trough, c, with two coppers placedover furnaces. The apartment, 31, from its communicationboth with the shoj) and the bakery, was probably used as astoreroom.
. 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 . te the disposition of the otherbakery. In the centre of the large apartment, 26, are threemills, a. a, a, and near them a large table, h. Flanking theentrance to the oven, /, are three large vases, and in the left-hand corner is a kneading-trough, c, with two coppers placedover furnaces. The apartment, 31, from its communicationboth with the shoj) and the bakery, was probably used as astoreroom. The two compartments marked 30 are houses of a verymean class, having formerly an upper story. Behind tholast of them is a court, which gives light to one of tho HOUSES OF PANSA AND SALLUST. 323 chambers of Pansas house. On the other side of the islandare three houses (32), small but of much more respectableextent and accommodation, which probably were also meantto be let. In that nearest the garden were found the skele-tons of four women, with gold ear and finger rings havingengraved stones, besides other valuables ; showing that suchinquilini, or lodgers, were not always of the lowest View of the Entrance to the House of Pansa. Our view of this house is taken from the front of the door-way It offers to the eye, successively, the doorway, the 324 POMPEII. prothyrum, the atrium, with its impluvium, the Ionic peris-tyle, and the garden wall, with Vesuvius in the entrance is decorated with two pilasters of the Corinthianorder. Besides the outer door, there was another at the endof the prothyrum, to secure the atrium against too early in-trusion. The latter apartment was paved with marble, witha gentle inclination towards the impluvium. Through thetablinum the peristyle is seen, with two of its Ionic capitalsstill remaining. The columns are sixteen in number, fluted,except for about one-third of their height from the are made of a volcanic stone,
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