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rthof the Sinai Peninsula). The domestic architecture of the Roman period is bestknown to us through the buried town of Pompeii, nearNaples. The ashes of Vesuvius, whose volcanic erup-tion in the year 79 A. D. buried this town, have pre-served its dwelling houses until the excavations of… … Fig. 35.—Court of a Pompeiian Housk. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING. 61 certainly cannot have compared in dimension or heightwith those of Rome, where we know that houses of sixstories were found, l^one in Pompeii are more than twostories high, and it isonly in one or twocases that the secondstory…
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