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Title: Pompeii, its life and art
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909 Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n colony, must have been built ofcommon materials and coated with stucco. Of the existing re-mains only the inner part of the podium (I, II on the Plan) canbe assigned to it; a series of small blocks of tufa at the rear endis perhaps a remnant of the cornice which was carried aroundthe upper edge of the podium. To the Pompeians of the Empire the modest structure ofRepublican days seemed unworthy of the tutelary divinity oftheir city. On the same podium they built a temple of marble.Of this are preserved the foundations of the door posts of thecella (Fig. 56 a) and the core of the pedestal (D) on which stoodthe statue of the divinity, besides some bits of the cella floor,which consisted of a border of white mosaic (b), a broad strip ofpavement of small flags of colored marble (/), and an ornamentalcentre (a) now entirely destroyed. The only remains of thesuperstructure that can be identified are in a storeroom north ofthe temple of Apollo. They consist of fragments of large 128 POMPEII
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