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

46 POMPEIANA.

the kitchen, with its adjuncts of sink, scul-
lery, and cloaca, with a staircase to the loft
above, or to the top of the portico X.

In the first room, Y, was a dresser, and
the walls have the usual paintings of ser-
pents. Three little windows towards the
vicus served to discharge the various fetid
odours of the inner kitchen. The room Z,
which has a window towards the garden, has
been considered as the cook's chamber, with
a sort of ante-room, in which the appear-
ance of shelves perhaps warrants the sup-
position that a store-room, or repository of
the dinner apparatus, was its destination.

On the whole, the magnificence of the
two last divisions of this house leaves nothing
to desire, except that simplicity of material
so productive of beauty and durability in
the marble monuments of Greece: 5'et it
would, perhaps, be unfair to judge, from pre-
sent appearances, of the effect which the
buildings of Pompeii might have produced
while the colours remained in all their fresh-
ness, and the marble coatings yet adhered
to the walls.