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 (1867) (14774087684)

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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ilding inquestion has been called the Curia Isiaca. Its real destination has provedquite a riddle to antiquarians. From a door in it leading towards the greattheatre, it seems not improbable that it may have been in some way connectedwith it. Beyond the Curia Isiaca, on the same side of the street, and quite at theend of it, we come to the Propylasum forming the entrance to what has beencalled the Forum Triangulare. This Propylaeum has been reckoned amongthe best remains of Pompeii. It consists, as will be seen in the annexedphotograph, of eight Ionic columns, raised upon two steps, which, when per-fect, probably supported a kind of attic. These columns, which were abouteighteen feet in height, were made of a volcanic stone, coated with stucco andpainted yellow. Their capitals present a feature foimd only in monumentsof high antiquity; the volutes characteristic of the Ionic order being foimdon four sides of them, instead of two joined by the usual coussinet. The THE TRIANGULAR FURUM.
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THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 69 lengtli of the ffi9acle is about fifty-four feet. Between the last two co-lumns at the western extremity, facing the Street of the Theatres, which hereruns into the Street of Isis, stands one of those little square foimtains sooften fomid at Pompeii. It was sujsj^lied with water through the masksculptured on the stone which surmounts it. A wall behind the columns, ata distance of fourteen or fifteen feet from them, formed a spacious vestibule.On the face of this wall may be perceived the remains of six marble consoles,intended probably to support busts. In the vestibule were found some articlesof gold and silver and an emerald ring. The wall, as will be seen in theview, is pierced with two gateways, one being at about the centre of it, theother on the left at the end. On passing one of these gates we find ourselvesin a large, open, triangular space, the left hand side of which is entirely, andthe right partially, occupied by a portico consisting altogether of