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Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00mauauoft (find matches)
Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sed by changesin several of the earlier apartments, and by the addition of asecond floor reached by the stairway in room 18. The privateapartments were for the use of the proprietor, and were guardedagainst the intrusion of the guests of the inn by the porterstationed at the entrance. This explanation is confirmed by the close connection of thebakery with the house; and the use of the open-air tricliniumis entirely consistent with it (p. 396). The arrangement ofthe house after it had become an inn may be seen in our sec-tion (Fig. 131). CHAPTER XXXV THE HOUSE OF THE FAUN The house of the Faun, so named from the statue of adancing satyr found in it (Fig. 248), was among the largestand most eleganLin__Pompeii. It illustrates for us the type ofdwelling that wealthy men of cultivated tastes living in thethird or second century B.C. built and adorned for themselves.The mosaic pictures found on the floors (now in the Naples Mu-seum) are the most beautiful that have survived to modern times.
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