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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deep, before mentioned, the water of which
is singularly cold and very slightly brackish.
Behind this is a space supposed to be for
soap-boiling, all of which may, however,
have appertained, with the lime, to some
process of whitening or cleansing the gar^
ments of those who attended the supposed
Pantheon, or College of the Augustales.

Pursuing the street uniting that of the
Mercanti with that north of the Pantheon,
to which the name of Frutti Secchi, or dried
fruits, has now been given, nothing worthy
of remark occurs except the house inscribed
lollivm md. on the left. In this is an ob-
scene picture, and in what appears to be an
Atrium, paved with mosaic in the forms of
ducks and fishes, an altar, or what may have
served for a kitchen. At the junction of the
two streets, on a house at the angle inscribed

M. HOLCONIVM and PRISCVM FELICEM. JED.

o.v.f., is a species of triple Phallus in terra
cotta of sirigular invention. Near this, in
a house, is the picture of a graceful young
Bacchus expressing the juice of the grape
into a vase placed on a column. A ram-

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