. Pompeii : its life and art . ium is indicated in our transverse section(Fig. 138). The alae (c, c) are here at the middle of the sides;the one at the left served as a passageway between the twoatriums. The four tufa Corinthian columns, nearly twenty feethigh, are well preserved, as well as the pilasters at the entrancesof the alae. A tablinum was not needed in this part of thehouse, and the space which it might have occupied was given 290 POMPEII to the andron {k) and a sleeping room opening on the firstperistyle (/). This part of the house was much damaged by the earthquake of 63, and there
. Pompeii : its life and art . ium is indicated in our transverse section(Fig. 138). The alae (c, c) are here at the middle of the sides;the one at the left served as a passageway between the twoatriums. The four tufa Corinthian columns, nearly twenty feethigh, are well preserved, as well as the pilasters at the entrancesof the alae. A tablinum was not needed in this part of thehouse, and the space which it might have occupied was given 290 POMPEII to the andron {k) and a sleeping room opening on the firstperistyle (/). This part of the house was much damaged by the earthquake of 63, and there are many traces of repairs, particularly in the upper rooms. The walls were simply painted in the fourth style. Two money chests stood on large flat stones in the rear corners of this atrium. In one of the rooms at the front (c) there are traces ofshelves; stairs at one side led to the upper rooms at the leftof the atrium, the shape and size of which are indicated inFig. 138. On the right, also, there were small chambers over. Sleeping room (f) Tuscan atrium (B) with en- Left ala (c) trance of tablinum (D) of tetrastyle atrium Right ala (c) Fig. 138. — Transverse section of the house of the Faun, showing the two atriums with adjoining rooms. g, h, and //, on the same level as the second floor of the shopin front (4), and accessible only by means of the stairway inthis shop; there were no other stairs in this corner of thehouse, and these rooms could not have been connected withchambers over other parts of the atrium, because there were noupper rooms over the fauces and the right ala (cr). Anotherstairway in d, partly of wood, led to chambers over i, d, n[, n,.0, 0, and part of the kitchen, M. Bronze vessels and remains of ivory feet belonging to a bed-stead were found in the double room h, h; but it is more likelythat this was used as a storeroom for discarded furniture thanthat members of the family slept here. A long corridor at the end of the first peristyle (;//) con- TH
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