Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 215
nd; there-in differing from thofe in ano-ther refervoir, called the Hundredchambers of Nero, the pillars of whichC, in plate XXXIV. are likewife ofbricks, though differently laid. Asto the Pifcina, the middle is laid inlozenges, which Vitruvius calls OpusK 4 reticu- [ 136 ] reticulatum, and the… … N BeUi^ii7\iFec [ 37 ] O F T H E TOMBS I N T H E ELYSIAN FIELDS. c OMING out of the Pifcina, piate we afcend to the top of CapeMifenum, at the foot of which wefee the MareMortuum, fo called, be-caufe it was crofled by thofe whocarried the afhes of the ancients tothe tombs, which are on the fide…
