Atkins, Sarah: Relics of antiquity, exhibited in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum: with an account of the destruction and recovery of those celebrated cities (London: St. Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1825)

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found a large, round, and rather rude, stone water
vessel. There is a larger and shallower very
beautiful marble basin, in a neighbouring large
apartment, which is likewise barrel-vaulted, but
detached from the other. The denomination of
a labrum, as well as its cost, and the persons
who ordered it, are pointed out by a remarkable
inscription on the edge of the basin. The letters,
which are cut in, are filled up with bronze, and
are as follow:—cn. melissaeo. cn. f. apro. m.
STIAO. M. F. APR0. II. VIR. ITER. ID. LABRVM. EX.
DD. EX. P. I. F. C. CONSTAT. IISDCCL. A third
large detached and barrel-vaulted chamber
building was likewise discovered at the same
time, the ceiling of which was adorned with rich
and elegant subjects, upon red and blue
grounds.
Previous to the period of these latter exca-
vations, the commencement of the project of
clearing the whole of the walls which surround
Pompeii, and which are supposed to be about
sixteen hundred or seventeen hundred toises in
circumference, took place; as it was rationally
anticipated that great advantages were likely to
be derived in future excavations from the denu-
dation of the walls. The streets which lead from