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Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00maua (find matches)
Title: Pompeii, its life and art
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909 Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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that were made in it, and the objects found there, thesupposition that it was turned into barracks for gladiators inthe time of the Early Empire, and so used till the destruction ofthe city, is seen to harmonize with almost all the facts. First, rooms were built on all sides behind the colonnade ; onthe north side they took the place of the south arm of the colon-nade in the area back of the stage. They were in two series,one above the other; the upper rooms were entered from a lowwooden gallery accessible by three stairways. They could nothave been intended for shops ; they were too small, measuringon the average hardly more than twelve feet square, and thedoors were too narrow. There were no doors opening from oneroom into the other. Both lower and upper rooms, we mayconclude, were used for mens quarters. In the middle of the south side a large room was left, withthe front open toward the area, an exedra (6). On the eastside was a still larger room the front of which is divided off
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THE THEATRE COLONNADE i6i by pillars ; other rooms open from it, and among them is one(lo) with several hearths, evidently intended for a mess kitchen,if the hearths are ancient; they may be modern. Over theserooms was a second story, reached by a broad stairway (9). The immediate connection of the colonnade with the areabehind the stage was now cut off by a wall (4); there was leftonly a small door in the corner, which could be readily fastened.The entrance from the passage leading to Stabian Street (2)was provided with doors and placed under the control of aguard, for whom a special room was built at one side (3).There was a third entrance, narrow and easily closed, at thenorthwest corner, where a flight of steps connected the foot ofthe broad stairway (5) with the landing of the stairs leading tothe wooden gallery. Thus a complete transformation was effected. The prome-nade for theatre-goers had become barracks, with a great numberof cell-like rooms, a mess kitchen, and narrow, gua

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