. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 107. — Plan of the Herculaneum Gate. Steps leading to the top of the city wall. Room belonging to the house at the left of the Gate. 23S POMPKII purposes, and must have been built — probably in the place ofan earlier structure — in a period when the possibility of warseemed remote. Such a time, as previously remarked, was thesecond century , particularly the latter half, after the de-struction of Carthage. A still more peaceful aspect is presented by the HerculaneumGate. The style of masonry --rubble work with opus mixtumat the corners — points to the en
. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 107. — Plan of the Herculaneum Gate. Steps leading to the top of the city wall. Room belonging to the house at the left of the Gate. 23S POMPKII purposes, and must have been built — probably in the place ofan earlier structure — in a period when the possibility of warseemed remote. Such a time, as previously remarked, was thesecond century , particularly the latter half, after the de-struction of Carthage. A still more peaceful aspect is presented by the HerculaneumGate. The style of masonry --rubble work with opus mixtumat the corners — points to the end of the Republic, rather than. — Herculaneum Gate, looking down the Street corners of the entrances are opus mixtum, a course of brick-shaped blocks of stone alternating with three courses of bricks. to the Empire, as the period of construction. Here we findthree vaulted passages, the middle one for vehicles, those oneither side for pedestrians. The vaulting over the greater partof the gate has disappeared ; but according to appearances a van-tage court was left here, in the middle passage, if not in those atthe sides ; at the inner end of this court the gates were greater part of the structure served no purpose of utility; itwas obviously designed as a monumental entrance to the city. PART II THE HOUSESCHAPTER XXXII THE POMPEIAN HOUSE Our chief sources of information regarding the domesticarchitecture of ancient Italy are two, — the treatise of Vitruvius,and the remains found at Pompeii. The Pompeian houses pre-sent many variations from the plan described by the Romanarchitect;
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