Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00maua (find matches)
Title: Pompeii, its life and art
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909 Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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th the atriumof the city house. In most parts of Italy a large farmhousewould contain appliances for making wine and oil. The arrangement of the two types of country house in thevicinity of Pompeii may be briefly illustrated by reference toan example of each, the villa of Diomedes and the farmhouserecently excavated at Boscoreale. 355 356 POMPEII 2 * s s to /J rt /f The location of the villa of Diomedes, beyond the last group of tombs at the leftof the road lead-ing from the Her-culaneum Gate, isindicated in PlanV.An extensive estab-lishment similar incharacter, the so-called villa of Cic-ero, lies nearer theGate on the sameside of the road;on the right thereis a third villa, ofwhich only a smallpart has been un-covered. Thethree seem to havebelonged to a seriesof country seats sit-uated on the ridgethat extends backfrom Pompeii inthe direction of Ve-suvius. The villaof Diomedes, exca-vated in 1771-74,received its namefrom the tomb ofMarcus Arrius Di-omedes, facing theentrance, on the
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Plan of the villa of Diomedes. Fig. iJ I. Steps. 3. Peristyle. 8. Tablinum. 10. Exedra. 12. Dining room. 14. Sleeping room, with anteroom (13). the lower part. 15. Passage leading to a garden e,f,g,h. Colonnade enclosing a fPlpr) \7 A.l\ at the level of the street. large garden. T / 17. Small court, with hearth (e) /, k, I, m. Rooms. The frOUt of thc and swimming tank (_Q. r. Fishpond. i8. Storeroom. j. Arbor. 19-21. Bath. (19. Apodyterium. 20. Tepidarium. 21. Cal- darium.)22. Kitchen.26. Colonnade, facing a terrace OppOsitC sidc of (28) over the front rooms of , r^ , n^ i the lower part. thc Strcct of Tombs villa forms a sharp THE VILLA OF DIOMELES 357 angle with the street. The orientation of the building was de-termined by an abrupt descent in the ground, which runs acrossthe middle and divides it into two parts. The front part, therooms of which are numbered on the plan (Fig. 183), is a fewfeet above the level of the street at the entrance. The rear por-tion, as may be seen from o

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