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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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of the cell is tetrastyle and pseudodipteral, and thecolumns are set araeostyle. Within the cell, which was verysmall, a beautiful mosaic bordre was found, besides thebroken statue already mentioned. The temple stood in anopen area, one hundred and fifty feet by seventy-five, sur-rounded by a wall and portico. At the north end was thepriests apartment, having an outlet into the Forum; thepublic entrance was at the south. Opposite the latter, bronzeornaments resembling the heads of large nails were found,with which the door might have been decorated, according toa practice common among the ancients. The columns of thetemple were Corinthian, fluted, and in part painted blue;those of the colonnade were originally Doric, but afterwardsaltered to Corinthian, varying in detail, very ill designed, and * Donaldson. t Pompcia, p. 51. + Ad locum. DESCRIPTION OF TEMPLES. 129 badly executed. A perforation has been made in one of thelatter to receive a pipe, through which water for the sacrifices
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Mosaic border. flowed into a basin placed upon a circular fluted pedestal. Thelower third of them is painted yellow, the rest is white. Thedetails, or characteristic ornaments of the original Doric order, 130 POMPEII. are added with tiles and stucco, and the surface of the archi-trave is painted with an endless variety of ornament. Both aconsular and a terminal figure were found here, but there is noreason for supposing that one of the latter was placed beforeeach column of the colonnade. Channels were formed roundthe area, under the cornice of this colonnade, to carry off thewater from the roof, which inclined inwards like a shed. Theascent to the cell of the temple was by a flight of steps, oneach side of which were pedestals; near one of them lay an

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