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"CENTAUR CUP - Some rich Pompeian had a pair of beautiful silver cups with graceful handles. The design was made in hammered silver, and showed centaurs talking to cupids that are sitting on their backs. A centaur was half man, half horse.".

Identifier: cu31924031222049 (find matches)
Title: Buried cities
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hall, Jennie, 1875-1921
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-From Maus PompeiV
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—From Maus Pompeii THE HOUSE OF THE TRAGIC POET (restored). From the ruins and from ancient books, men know almost allthe rooms of a Pompeian house. So they have pictured this/oneas it was before the disaster, with its many beautiful wall point-ings, its mosaic floors, its tiled roofs. If you can imagine thesetwo halves fitted together, and yourself inside, you can visit oneof the most attractive houses in Pompeii. Do you see,how thetiled roof slants downward from four sides to a rectangularopening in the highest part of the house? Below this openingwas a shallow basin into which the rainwater fell. This basinwas in the center of the atrium, the most important room in thehouse. The walls of this room were painted with scenes fromthe Trojan war. This is.the house which has the mosaic pictureof a dog on the floor of the long entrance hall (see next page).On each side of the hall, facing the street, are large rooms forshops, where, doubtless, the owner conducted his business. Hewas not

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