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Title: 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
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell & Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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one of the laudatory inscriptionsin honour of an sedile, or some other high officer, common inPompeii; and that though the cedile Pansa is as likely tohave lived here as any other person, there is no dependenceon the correctness of the name thus given. We shall con-tinue, however, for the sake of clearness, to use the nameunder which it is generally known. Several inscriptionsbearing the name of Cuspius Pansa, asdile, have been found.By reference to the map, in which it is marked, the readerwill see it occupies an entire insula, that is, it is completely * The whole inscription was :— PANSAM -ED. PARATVS ROG. whence it is as likely to hare been the house of Paratus as of Pansa. See Pomp. Ant. Hist., t. i. fasc. iii. p. 157. The inscription was not laudatory, but proposed Pansa as a?dile. On such inscriptions see below, Chap. ix.—E HOUSES OF PANSA AND SALLUST. 319 surrounded by streets, in the centre of the town, in one ofthe best situations, close to the baths, and near the Forum.
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j H^FnF 1 *3* Plan of the House of Pansa. Including the garden, which occupies a third of the wholelength, the area on which it stands is about three hundred 320 POMPEII. feet by one hundred : part of this, however, as is usual, isoccupied by shops belonging to the owner, and let out byhim. a, the Vestibulum, the inner threshold of which had amosaic with the inscription SALVE. 1. Prothyrum pavedwith mosaic. 2. Tuscan atrium. 3. Impluvium. 4. Alas. 5, Open tablinum, paved with mosaic, serving as a passage tothe peristyle, 8. There is also however a passage (fauces), 6, beside it; and though the tablinum was left open for thesake of the effect produced by thus making the whole lengthof the house visible at once, it was probably closed by abronze or wooden railing, so as only to allow the master ofthe house or the family to pass through it. The apartments, 7, on each side of the atrium were probably meant for thereception of guests entitled to claim hospitality, who cameto the House of P

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