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

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certain that the chests were carried from
their positions to another house in frag-
ments, and the public felt consoled for the
loss of the medals by the dismissal of the
person who ought to have preserved them,
and who was the avowed advocate of the ex-
clusive system, by which too many have been
prevented from noting and drawing the an-
tiquities while they were in a state of to-
lerable preservation.

In the largest of these cubiculi, cellse do-
mestics, or penaria, O, the number 19 marks
the site of a pretty picture of Narcissus, so
called because the two faces of a youth sit-
ting upon a rock with hunting-spears in his
hand, and of a Cupid which reposes upon his
shoulder, are reflected in a plash of water at
his feet. He does not, however, appear to
regard the image in the water at the mo-
ment. A female, also attended by a Cupid,
sits near, with a vase in which to fetch water
from the fountain.

At No. 20 on the Plan is a Bacchante,
which does not require any particular de-
scription ; and at 22 is another with a gar-
land.