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POMPEII
the articles offered for sale were attractively displayed, and
buyers and idlers were loitering in front or leisurely passing
from one to the other, shops and street alike were full of color
and animation.
The floor of the fauces, as of many of the other rooms, is rich
in color. It is made of small triangular pieces of marble and
Fig. 134. —Facade of the house of the Faun, restored.
At the left, the front of a shop (1 on the plan) with its upper floor; then the large front
door, two shops, the entrance of the smaller atrium and the fourth shop, which, like the
second, is completely closed by shutters.
slate — red, yellow, green, white, and black. At the inner end
it was marked off from the floor of the atrium by a stripe of
finely executed mosaic, suggestive of a threshold (Fig. 135),
now in the Naples Museum. Two tragic masks are realistically
outlined, appearing in the midst of fruits, flowers, and garlands,
the details of which are worked out with much skill.
Fig. 135. — Border of mosaic with tragic masks, fruits, flowers, and garlands, at the inner
end of the fauces.
The walls of the fauces are ornamented in an unusual manner.
The ordinary decoration of the first style is carried to the height
of eight feet. Above this on either side projects a tufa shelf
POMPEII
the articles offered for sale were attractively displayed, and
buyers and idlers were loitering in front or leisurely passing
from one to the other, shops and street alike were full of color
and animation.
The floor of the fauces, as of many of the other rooms, is rich
in color. It is made of small triangular pieces of marble and
Fig. 134. —Facade of the house of the Faun, restored.
At the left, the front of a shop (1 on the plan) with its upper floor; then the large front
door, two shops, the entrance of the smaller atrium and the fourth shop, which, like the
second, is completely closed by shutters.
slate — red, yellow, green, white, and black. At the inner end
it was marked off from the floor of the atrium by a stripe of
finely executed mosaic, suggestive of a threshold (Fig. 135),
now in the Naples Museum. Two tragic masks are realistically
outlined, appearing in the midst of fruits, flowers, and garlands,
the details of which are worked out with much skill.
Fig. 135. — Border of mosaic with tragic masks, fruits, flowers, and garlands, at the inner
end of the fauces.
The walls of the fauces are ornamented in an unusual manner.
The ordinary decoration of the first style is carried to the height
of eight feet. Above this on either side projects a tufa shelf