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Identifier: ruinsofpompeiise00dyer (find matches)
Title: The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city) Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79
Publisher: London : Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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VIEW OF THE ENTRANCJi TO THE HOUSE OF PANSA. SS^WfSyl* VIEW NEAR THE OLD BATHS.
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THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 43 ago, will show their appearance when more perfect. Over the buildings isseen the distant landscape, closed by the noble forms of Vesuvius. The house of Pansa was one of the largest and haiidsomest in Pompeii.It occupied the whole of what the Romans called an insula—that is, a spacesurrounded on every side by streets, as an island is by water. It was of anoblong form, in length about three hmidred feet, including the garden, whilstthe breadth of its frontage towards the Street of the Baths was about one hun-dred feet. It was on the usual plan of a Roman house, being entered from thestreet by a vestibule followed by a narrow pvthi/ru7n, or passage, ha\dng on thefloor the inscription salve in mosaic. This led into the atrium—a quadran-gular space having a large square opening in the roof, called the comphwium^through which the rain water, carried down by the slanting of the roof, fellinto a basin below, generally of marble. At the sides of the atrium weresmal

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  • bookid:ruinsofpompeiise00dyer
  • bookyear:1867
  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Dyer__Thomas_Henry__1804_1888
  • booksubject:Pompeii__Extinct_city_
  • booksubject:Vesuvius__Italy_____Eruption__79
  • bookpublisher:London___Bell_and_Daldy
  • bookcontributor:Getty_Research_Institute
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:80
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