The Ruins of Pompeii a Series of Eighteen Photographic Views With An Account
The Ruins of Pompeii a Series of Eighteen Photographic Views With An Account
Thomas Henry Dyer
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, is a fountain, and behind it a low square vaulted erection, which is sometimes supposed to have been a public cistern for supplying it. The annexed cut will convey an idea of it. The cu*- cumstance of there be- ing a door in one of the sides of the building mili- tates against the notion of its having been a re- servoii" ; but to what other purpose it may have been applied it is impossible to say. The figures painted on this buildmg, now entu'ely eftaced, represented a sacrifice to the Lares ...Conipitales, or deities" Avho presided over the high- ways ; to whom also was dedicated a small altar that stands beneath. Resuming our walk along the Strada Consolare^ we come to a bakehouse on the left, adjoining the house of Sallust. As may natiu'ally be supposed, shops of this sort are of frequent recurrence at Pompeii, though some of the larger houses are provided with private bakeries. All of them very much resemble one another, diflFering only in size. One or two of them show, by the comfortable air of the attached dwelling, that the proprietor must have been a well-to-do man.
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