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

POMPEIANA. 47

There being no indication of the owner's
name or profession, this house has been
supposed to have belonged to the treasurer
of the city, and some have even called it
the iErarium.

In the house beyond that of the Dioscuri,
the vestiges of a considerable portico, but of
strange architecture, are already disinterred.
Doric fiutings and degraded Corinthian ca-
pitals are among the details; and the pillars
are, here and there, scratched with singular
characters. The antefixes seem to have re-
presented the sun. If the house of the Dio-
scuri be without a name, here we have that
of

M. CERRINIVM. VATIAM
JEED. OF. ET

Near this is

RO. ROMVLVS

PRIMVS

with some unintelligible Greek. This is now
called the House of the Centaur from a pic-
ture excavated in the year 1830.