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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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ne state, through the care of SignerFiorelli in substituting fresh timbers for those which hadbecome carbonized. The visitor may ascend to the first floorof this house, from which the balcony projects several feetinto the narrow lane. In the atrium of this house, of whichwe annex an engraving on p. 474, is a very pretty fountain. The house next to that of the Balcony, facing the entranceof a small street leading from the Via dell Abbondanza, andnumbered 7 on the door-post, has a few pictures in a tolerablestate of preservation. In a painting in the furthest room onthe left of the atrium Theseus is seen dejiarting in his ship;Ariadne, roused from sleep, gazes on him with despair, whilea little weeping Cupid stands by her side. In the sameapartment are two other well-preserved pictures, the subjectsof which it is not easy to explain. In one is a female display-ing to a man two little Cupids in a nest, while four otherfigures are looking on. The other is sometimes called the 474 POMPEII.
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HOUSE OF THE BALCONY. 475 Eape of Helen. There are also several medallion headsaround. In the small street which runs parallel with the easternside of the Forum, called the Yico di Eumachia, is a housenamed the Casa nuova della Caccia, to distinguish it from oneof the same name previously discovered. As in the formerinstance, its appellation is derived from a large painting onthe wall of the peristyle, of bears, lions, and other animals.On the right-hand wall of the tablinum is a picture of Bacchusdiscovering Ariadne. A satyr lifts her vest, while Silenusand other figures look on in admiration. The painting on theleft-hand wall is destroyed. On entering the peristyle a dooron the right leads down some steps into a garden, on one sideof which is a small altar before a wall, on which is a paintingof shrubs. Proceeding from this street into the Vico Storto, whichforms a continuation of it on the north, we find on the righta recently excavated house, which, from several slabs ofvariously

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