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

34 POMPEIANA.

versally, the name of Venus and the College
of Venerei. Bonucci says an inscription
was found on the spot which would decide
the question, but he has not given it in the
original Latin. The general meaning is,
that " Marcus Holconius Rufus, Duumvir
Judge for the first time, and C. Egnatius
Postumus, Duumvir Judge for the second
time, have bought, according to a decree
of the Decurions, the right to close the
windows, for the sum of three thousand
sesterces, and they have also raised the
private wall of the Incorporated College of
Venerei as high as the roof." These win-
dows, it is probable, looked toward the
Forum.

On quitting the Forum, by the opening
near a low door, which is that of a prison,
may be observed the figure of a goat upon
the pier of a house where milk was sold ;
and, near it, the picture of fighting gla-
diators, which has been roughly represented
in the preceding work, is seen upon the wall
of a house which, from its sign, and a sword
which was found at its excavation, is now