Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1832)

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that they also served to prohibit the passage
of wheeled carriages. At "the lower end of
this street, and at the angle nearest the great
theatre, is a house, excavated in the presence
(if the Emperor of Austria, on the portal of
which was visible the name of puscus. It
contains, at the entrance, a boar and hounds
in mosaic, and within, among other rooms,
two beautiful cabinets or boudoirs, opening
into the atrium, remarkable for the spe-
cimens they offer of the different styles of
painting, one being decorated with compart-
ments highly coloured with red and yellow,
and the other with beautiful light tracery on
a white ground. Both of these are repre-
sented in Plates III. and IV. At a spot in
this street, on the side opposite to the Chal-
cidicum, may be observed three steps in the
footpath, at the bottom of which, close to
the wall of a house, a marble cone, ending
in a sharp point, rises from the pavement
to the height of about twelve inches. The
house or pier adjoining is built with large
and well-united blocks of stone, on one of
which are the evident vestiges of a now
almost illegible Oscan inscription in two

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