Archaeologia Volume 18; Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... two indented borders, within which was the head of Medusa. The square compartment had a border consisting of frets of a red colour and guilloches placed alternately. Beyond the mosaic pavement were three rows of black and red tiles six inches square laid chequerwise, and next to the wall a row of bricks, each eleven inches by fifteen inches and a half. Great part of a small column of stone was found lying on the mosaic pavement: this pillar was in the same style as the fragment first discovered, being a sort of irregular Doric, the most remarkable feature of which is, that the tori of the base are both of the same size: the base was fourteen inches and three quarters in diameter, the shaft two feet two inches in length: it had been originally of one stone, but was broken into two pieces. Both the base and capital had made deep impressions on the pavement, at about the distance of four feet from which were similar impressions, evidently made by another pillar of the same size; leaving no room to doubt that they had stood, at some height above the pavement, on each side of a doorway between this and the adjoining room, the dimensions of which appeared to have been thirty feet by thirty-five. The floor of this room, marked (e) a great part of which remained, consisted of black and white stones, each six inches square, laid chequer-wise: the white were of the same kind of hard stone as those in the cistern of the large triclinium, the black were a sort of slate. Next to the wall of the room was a row of bricks each eleven inches by fifteen inches and a half. Nearly in the middle of this room was a cold bath, eighteen feet from east to west, and three feet two inches deep from the level of thefloor: it had three steps on the east, west, and north sides, of vari...