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174 POMPEIANA.
piece. On the right of the way up stairs is
the hearth for cooking, separated therefrom by-
wooden ballusters, which do not remain. On the
other side is an arched recess, about 3 feet deep;
a eonveniency, according to modern, at least English
ideas, most inconveniently situated. The wood
work of the seat is gone: the marks for the hinges,
and fastening to the door, may be observed K
It would appear, that in ancient, as in modern Italy
and Greece, a proximity between the ultimate re-
ceptacle of the aliments and their place of prepara-
tion was considered desirable ~.
In ancient Rome were 144 public cloacinas; also the
public walk, with the Sellse Patroclianas: perhaps
something of this sort remains to be found at Pom-
peii, where few houses can boast the possession of
such convenience at all: but the Lasana were
portable2.
#7 Entrance from the cavcedium to a third court,
perhaps the Gynasconitis, or women's apart-
ments, with a porticus; the columns are octan-
gular, painted red. Between these the floor was
in patterns of mosaic.
28 Against the wall is a picture of Diana, bathing,
1 Petronius might well say, Quam bene olere qui in culina habitant.
If this had been the plan of Fiautus' kitchen, we should not doubt the angle
alluded to in the Fersa, where the pretended Virgo, to give an idea of her
low birth, says, she was born ; Ut mater dixit, in culina, in angulo ad Irevam
num.
2 Hon. Sat. I. 6. 109.
piece. On the right of the way up stairs is
the hearth for cooking, separated therefrom by-
wooden ballusters, which do not remain. On the
other side is an arched recess, about 3 feet deep;
a eonveniency, according to modern, at least English
ideas, most inconveniently situated. The wood
work of the seat is gone: the marks for the hinges,
and fastening to the door, may be observed K
It would appear, that in ancient, as in modern Italy
and Greece, a proximity between the ultimate re-
ceptacle of the aliments and their place of prepara-
tion was considered desirable ~.
In ancient Rome were 144 public cloacinas; also the
public walk, with the Sellse Patroclianas: perhaps
something of this sort remains to be found at Pom-
peii, where few houses can boast the possession of
such convenience at all: but the Lasana were
portable2.
#7 Entrance from the cavcedium to a third court,
perhaps the Gynasconitis, or women's apart-
ments, with a porticus; the columns are octan-
gular, painted red. Between these the floor was
in patterns of mosaic.
28 Against the wall is a picture of Diana, bathing,
1 Petronius might well say, Quam bene olere qui in culina habitant.
If this had been the plan of Fiautus' kitchen, we should not doubt the angle
alluded to in the Fersa, where the pretended Virgo, to give an idea of her
low birth, says, she was born ; Ut mater dixit, in culina, in angulo ad Irevam
num.
2 Hon. Sat. I. 6. 109.