A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 382
s was chiefly occupied by theslaves of the household. The house wasnamed House of the Quaestor from thepresence in the atrium of the left-hand 313 POxMrElI house of three metal-plateil ami linedinoiiey-chests; but as there were no qu:¥s-tors in Pompeii iit the time of its destruc-tion, the name… … Fig. 152.—Pompeii, House of tiie Faun. most stately of Pompeian residences. Itoccupies the sites of two older houses inwidth, and presumably of two in depthalso. The front part preserves much ofthe orifjinal arrangement of two housesside l)y side, with two entrances and twoatria. Hehind one of the…
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