Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 (1837)
Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836 · London : Lewis A. Lewis · leaf 292
t andcorrupted ; but the Bishop of St. Davids THE VIGNETTES. 185 assigns to the Alexandrine MS. in the Bri-tish Museum an antiquity of 1300 or 1400years. This, however, is probably one ofthose in Membranis. VIGNETTE 30. Vignette 30 is the altar of ^sculapius, arelic producing a better effect than… … SUPPOSED LIBRARY. This chamber, which is entered from the portico of theinner court or peristyle of the house of the Tragic Poet andlies on the left of it, is nearly of the same dimensions as thoseopening into the atrium and the tablinum. If books had been as numerous in the first century…
Architecture, Roman
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