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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: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d Fruits,from an inscription showing that dried fruits were sold in it;and, indeed, a considerable quantity of figs, raisins, chesnuts,plums, hempseed, and similar articles were found. It is nowhowever usually called the Street of the Augustals. Nearthe point at which this street is intersected by that ofEumachia, running at the back of the east side of the Forum,there is a remarkably graceful painting of a youthful Bacchuspressing the juice of the grape into a vase placed upon apillar, at the foot of which is a rampant animal expecting theliquor, apparently meant for a tiger or panther, but of verydiminutive size. This picture is one foot five inches highand one foot two inches wide. It probably served for thesign of a wine-merchant. Corresponding with it, on theother side of the shop, is a painting of Mercury, to renderthat knavish god propitious to the owners trade. We will now proceed to the Street of Abundance, or of the * Pompeiana, Second Series, vol. i. p. 70. 2 F 134 POMPEII.
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Stone Doorway in the Street of the Silversmiths. HOUSE OF THE WILD BOAR. 435 Merchants, formerly called the Street of the Silversmiths.This is about twenty-eight feet wide, and bordered on eachside by footpaths about six feet wide, which are described asmade in several places of a hard plaster, probably analogousto opus Signinum. At the end next the Forum it is blockedup by two steps, which deny access to wheel carriages, and isin other parts so much encumbered by large stepping-stonesthat the passage of such vehicles, if not prohibited, musthave been difficult and inconvenient. We may here take notice of a peculiarity in this street. Itslopes with a very gentle descent away from the Forum, andthe courses of masonry, instead of being lai-d horizontally,run parallel to the slope of the ground, a uniqueinstance, aswe believe, of such a construction. We give a view of ahandsome and (which is rare in Pompeii) a perfect doorwayof stone, copied from the second series of Sir W. GellsPompeii.

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