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

POMPEIANA. 167

for two umbilici on which they turned, and
two holes, in the centre, for bolts.

From the atrium a narrow corridor, or
faux, communicated with the peristyle, or
inner court} between which and the atrium
was also situated the chamber called the
tablinum, which should occupy, according
to Vitruvius, two-thirds of the width of the
atrium. In this the wall on the left presents
a variety of singular and fanciful architec-
tural ornaments, such as pillars with human
heads for capitals, sustaining capricious en-
tablatures, not destitute of picturesque effect,
an idea of which may be formed by ob-
serving the frontispiece.

On the right is a large picture, generally
little esteemed, by connoisseurs, for its exe-
cution, but producing a good whole, and re-
presented in Plate XLIV. of this work. It
is more particularly described in the account
of the engravings. The wall is adorned, also,
with a variety of other ornaments, some of
which have been adopted in the frontispiece.
Swans, goats, lions, and singularly capricious
architecture and variety of colour consti^
tute here, as throughout Pompeii, the fan-