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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very contradictory. Vopiscus accuses Firmus
of luxury for having windows of glass in the
time of Aurelian. Caligula, when giving
audience to Philo, a rich Jew of Alexandria,
is stated to have attended to nothing but
new-glazing his windows, so that the im-
perial palace must have been glazed long
before to have required renewing.

In this view two of the iron cramps re-
main by which wooden frames were fixed to
the wall, and in those frames the window,
either of glass, linen, or wood, moved back-
wards and forwards. If the slider was merely
a shutter, which it appears to have been, it
was probably not without a small hole in the
centre, square or circular, glazed or covered
with linen, or even open to admit a small
portion of light.

These windows are six feet six inches
above the foot pavement, so as not to admit
the gaze of passengers. The foot pavement
itself is here one foot seven inches higher
than the street or vicus, which is paved
with polygons, of which a quarry was found
by the Hon. W. Strangways not far from
Torre dell' Annunziata.