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Common terms and phrasesAbbondanza Street aediles altar Amphitheatre ancient apodyterium Apollo architectural arrangement atrium Augustus Basilica basin Boscoreale bronze building built caldarium Campanian cavea cella colonnade color columns compluvium connected corner corridor court Cupids dining room divinities door Doric duumvir entablature entrance Eumachia excavated fauces Faun feet figures FIORELLI floor Forum Triangulare frigidarium front garden Gate gladiators Greek HELBIG Herculaneum herm impluvium inscription Isis kitchen Lares Macellum marble masonry Mazois middle Mitth mosaic Museo Borb Naples Museum niche Nola Street opening ornamented Oscan Overbeck-Mau palaestra panels pedestal peristyle pilasters Pomp Pompeian Pompeii portico probably rear remains restored Roman Rome roof Sarno seats seen shrine side Stabian Baths stairway statue stone stood stucco style tablinum temple tepidarium tion tomb tufa Tufa Period upper vaulted Vespasian Vesuvius Vettii villa Vitruvius wall decoration Wall painting worship References from web pagesPompeii, Its Life and Art by August Mau, Francis W. Kelsey at ... JSTOR: Mau-Kelsey's Pompeii August Mau World Of Pompeii POMPEII by Raichel Le Goff The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome Pompeii Pompeis Difficile Est Betancourt, Philip P La fortuna visiva di Pompei References to this bookFrom Google ScholarUsing the Material and Written Sources: Turn of the Millennium ...Penelope M Allison - 2001 - American Journal of Archaeology Paintings, Presses And Perfume Production At PompeiiDJ MATTINGLY - 1990 - Oxford Journal of Archaeology 14 Quaternary Deposits and PaleositesKlaus‐Dieter Jäger Daedalus and Pasiphae FrescoJessica Pesce - Brown Classical Journal Popular passagesThe gladiatorial troop of the aedile Aulius Suettius Certus will fight at Pompeii May 31. There will be a hunt, and awnings will be provided." " Twenty pairs of gladiators furnished by Decimus Lucretius Satrius Valens perpetual priest of Nero, son of the Emperor, and ten pairs of gladiators furnished by Decimus Lucretius Valens his sou, will fight at Pompeii April 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. There will be a big hunt and awnings. ^Emilius Celer wrote this by the light of the moon. Page 222 Sive mutata iuvenem figura Ales in terris imitaris almae Filius Maiae, patiens vocari Caesaris ultor... Page 90 To let, for the term of five years, from the thirteenth day of next August to the thirteenth day of the sixth August thereafter, the Venus bath, fitted up for the best people, shops, rooms over shops, and secondstory appartments in the property owned by Julia Felix, daughter of Spurius. Page 490 Since these remains are so broadly typical, they are invaluable for the interpretation of the civilization of which they formed a part. They shed light on countless passages of Greek and Roman writers. Literature, however, ordinarily records only that which is exceptional or striking, while here we find the surroundings of life as a whole, the humblest details being presented to the eye. Pompeii, as no other source outside the pages of classical authors, helps us to understand the ancient man. Page 510 ... building which was probably used as the guild's headquarters. Over each of the two entrances to the Building of Eumachia in the Civil Forum (the dedication refers to the Emperor Tiberius and his mother, Livia, whose statue was found inside the building): Eumachia, daughter of Lucius (Eumachius), public priestess, in her own name and that of her son, Marcus Numistrius Fronto, built with her own funds the porch, covered passage, and colonnade and dedicated them to Concordia Augusta and to Pietas. Page 111 Mai | locantur ex i. lulis primis tabernae | cum pergulis suis et c[e]nacula || equestria et domus. conductor | convenito Primum [C]n. Al[le]i Nigidi Mai ser(vum... Page 489 A copper pot has been taken from this shop. Whoever brings it back will receive 65 sesterces [$2.60]. Page 490 ... record has been kept, it has been estimated that in Pompeii itself, about two thousand persons perished. As the city contained a population of twenty thousand or more, it is evident that the majority of the inhabitants fled; since the eruption commenced in the morning, while the hail of pumice-stone did not begin till afternoon, those who appreciated the greatness of the danger had time to escape. It is, however, impossible to say how many fled when it was already too late, and lost their lives... Page 23 Pompeian god ; but it is will dominated by alert and all-embracing mind. The forehead expands in a broad arch ; the eyes, wide open, look out with full vision under sharply cut brows. Page 69 I drew nigh to the confines of death, I trod the threshold of Proserpine, I was borne through all the elements and returned to earth again. I saw the sun gleaming with bright splendour at dead of night, I approached the gods above, and the gods below, and worshipped them face to face. Page 182 Contents
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