Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1832)

FOMPEIANA. I

rates the line of houses, beginning at the
arch of Caligula, from the most splendid of
all the habitations yet discovered at Pompeii,
which has been named the House of the
Dioscuri, or Castor and Pollux, from two
figures representing those personages on the
walls.

In the vicus, opposite to a little private
entrance to the lupanare, may be observed
the window of an upper chamber of this
house, a very rare circumstance in these
remains.

The walls of the house of the Dioscuri
are, as may be seen in Plate LXL, painted
below in large red panels, and above repre-
sent in plaster a slightly indented rustication.
The red panels ought always to be well ex-
amined, on the first moment of their exca-
vation, for inscriptions; as, in one part of
this wall, may be found curious Greek alpha-
bets of the imperial times, and, among many
other scratched inscriptions, may be distin-
guished

CAMPANI. VICTORIA. VNA. CVM. NVCERINIS. PERISTIS

and perhaps, with perseverance and the ap-
plication of a wet sponge, something more