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ARCHITECTURAL PERIODS
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advent of the colony to the time of the Early Empire, the so-
called travertine was used; after that, Carrara marble.
Bearing in mind the styles of construction just described, we
may now turn to the architectural history of Pompeii, which, as
we shall see, falls naturally into six periods.
The first period is that to which the Doric temple in the
Forum Triangulare and the city walls belong. From the style
of the temple, we may safely conclude that it was built in the
sixth century b.c. ; the evidence is too scanty to enable us
definitely to fix the date of the
walls. The building materials
used were the Sarno limestone
and gray tufa.
The second period may be
designated as the Period of the
Limestone Atriums, so char-
acterized from the peculiar
construction of a number of
houses found in different parts
of the city. On the side facing
the street these bouses have
walls of ashlar work of Sarno
limestone (Fig. io), but the
inner walls are of limestone
framework (Fig. 9).
Almost no ornamental forms
belonging to this period have
come down to us ; so far only a
single column has been found,
built into the wall of a house.
It is of the Doric style, and
once formed part of a portico
Fig. 10. — Facade of Sarno limestone,
house of the Surgeon.
that ran along the west side of
the small open space at the northwest corner of Stabian and
Nola streets; it is thus the sole remnant of a public build-
ing. In the only complete house that has survived from this
period, the house of the Surgeon, there was a portico in front
of the garden, but the roof was supported by square pillars,
not by columns. There is no trace of wall painting.
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advent of the colony to the time of the Early Empire, the so-
called travertine was used; after that, Carrara marble.
Bearing in mind the styles of construction just described, we
may now turn to the architectural history of Pompeii, which, as
we shall see, falls naturally into six periods.
The first period is that to which the Doric temple in the
Forum Triangulare and the city walls belong. From the style
of the temple, we may safely conclude that it was built in the
sixth century b.c. ; the evidence is too scanty to enable us
definitely to fix the date of the
walls. The building materials
used were the Sarno limestone
and gray tufa.
The second period may be
designated as the Period of the
Limestone Atriums, so char-
acterized from the peculiar
construction of a number of
houses found in different parts
of the city. On the side facing
the street these bouses have
walls of ashlar work of Sarno
limestone (Fig. io), but the
inner walls are of limestone
framework (Fig. 9).
Almost no ornamental forms
belonging to this period have
come down to us ; so far only a
single column has been found,
built into the wall of a house.
It is of the Doric style, and
once formed part of a portico
Fig. 10. — Facade of Sarno limestone,
house of the Surgeon.
that ran along the west side of
the small open space at the northwest corner of Stabian and
Nola streets; it is thus the sole remnant of a public build-
ing. In the only complete house that has survived from this
period, the house of the Surgeon, there was a portico in front
of the garden, but the roof was supported by square pillars,
not by columns. There is no trace of wall painting.