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Identifier: pompeianaedifice00gell (find matches)
Title: Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836 Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850 Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856 Hobsen, H Wallis, Robert, 1794-1878 Hollis, George, 1793-1842 Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859 Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896 Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 Cooke, George, 1781-1834 Shury, James Rawle, S Wise, W Porter, S Walker, John, 1759-1830 Pye, John, 1782-1874 Goodall, Edward, 1795-1870 Heath, Charles, 1785-1848
Subjects: Architecture, Roman -- Italy Pompeii (Extinct city) Pompeii (Extinct city) Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Buildings, structures, etc Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Maps
Publisher: London : Printed for Rodwell and Martin
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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uptly, and thehouses in this part are in a very ruined state :but they had a fine view towards the bay. On five pieces of frieze, in the Forum, are fragmentsof an inscription : L ■ F • SACERDOS • PVB —CORDIAE • AVGVSTA—DEMQVE •DEDICAVIT—VNIA • FEC—DICVM • C • F— 218 POMPEIANA. PLATE XLIV. General view of the Forum and Basilica, as they existed 1818, from the spot in the plan marked A. Reference to the foregoing plan will afford the best explanation to this plate.In the distance is Mount Lactarius, ending in the promontory of Surrentum. PLATE XLV. View of the south end of the Forum and the ba-silica, from the spot B in the plan. The threeentrances to the apartments 8, 9, 10 on the plan,are seen to the left: beyond these the door tothe street of the houses of General Championet.On the right is the Janus and pedestals. Theremains of the basilica are seen in the centre.At the farther end of it is the elevated tribunal;in the front of which is the pedestal (18). I
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