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Title: Life in the Roman world of Nero and St. Paul
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George), 1859-1946
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. 32. — House of Cornelius Ruftjs. (Pompeii.) floor may here consist of a large carpet-like mosaic,such as that famous piece, taken from the House ofthe Faun at Pompeii and now in the Naples Museum,which represents a battle between Alexander and thePersians. To one side of the entrance to thisparlour there will often stand on a pedestal thebust of the owner, as Genius of the home. On the 154 LIFE IN THE ROxVIAN WORLD other side there is a passage serving as the means ofaccess to the second or inner division of the house. On making our way through this passage we findourselves in a space still more open than the hall. It
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Fig. 33. — Peristyle with Garden and al fresco Dining-Table. is commonly an unroofed, cjuadrangular court sur-rounded by a roofed colonnade, and thence known asthe peristyle. Or the colonnade may extend onlyround three sides, the back being free to the garden.In the uncovered space lying between the rows ofpillars there are ornamental shrubs and flowers. THE ROMAN TOWN HOUSE 155 marble tables, a cistern of water containing goldfish, afountain, and marble basins into which fresh water isspouted from bronze or marble statuettes, from figuresof animals, or from masks. Under the colonnade aremarble floors or other more or less rich pavements,

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