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36 POMPEIANA.
Senatus Consultum, or fiat of the Imperial
City.
Near this painting may be seen in the
Plan a seat, or, possibly, the site of another
chest, made to correspond with that marked
24.
The whole of this peristyle was, of course,
covered with a fiat ceiling, probably orna-
mented in compartments or lacunaria. This,
again, was protected by a tiled roof inclined
to the hypaethrum, or compluvium S. Some
have imagined an upper story, because
smaller fragments of architecture have been
found.
The roof on the side nearest the tabli-
num V must have been somewhat higher
than that on the other quarters, because the
antae, as they may be termed, of the tabli-
num, exceed, by the whole height of their
capitals, the other Corinthian pilasters which
decorate the projecting angles of the walls.
This might, however, perhaps have been
avoided by placing the beams directly upon
those antae, while, in other parts, the height
of an architrave intervened between them
and the pilasters.
Senatus Consultum, or fiat of the Imperial
City.
Near this painting may be seen in the
Plan a seat, or, possibly, the site of another
chest, made to correspond with that marked
24.
The whole of this peristyle was, of course,
covered with a fiat ceiling, probably orna-
mented in compartments or lacunaria. This,
again, was protected by a tiled roof inclined
to the hypaethrum, or compluvium S. Some
have imagined an upper story, because
smaller fragments of architecture have been
found.
The roof on the side nearest the tabli-
num V must have been somewhat higher
than that on the other quarters, because the
antae, as they may be termed, of the tabli-
num, exceed, by the whole height of their
capitals, the other Corinthian pilasters which
decorate the projecting angles of the walls.
This might, however, perhaps have been
avoided by placing the beams directly upon
those antae, while, in other parts, the height
of an architrave intervened between them
and the pilasters.