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Title: Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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coincidewith G H, and E F H G will form the pallium or mantle.Join the edges E D, F C by folding the dress in the lineI K L, leaving the fold E F H G on the outside; divide thetop into three equal parts, and attach the back and fronttogether by buckles placed at the points M N, and we havethe tunico-pallium open at the right side. Having described the dress, the next thing is to place iton the wearer. Let her stand in the centre of the parallelo-gram e il d; fix a fibula or buckle at the point N, passingthe left arm through the aperture N I, and adjusting thebuckle on the left shoulder ; then place the second buckle atM, on the right shoulder, passing the head through N M, DOMESTIC UTENSILS. 5(59 and the right arm through the aperture M E. The corners,E G, I K, will of course fall down in the direction indicatedby the dotted lines, forming a simple, but not inelegantdrapery. In some figures the tunico-pallium is entirely openon the right side, E D; in others it is entirely closed from
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^ end to end, or open only for the space E G. This dress hasbeen introduced in the ballets at the Neapolitan theatre SanCarlo with very good effect. At this place two subjects taken from paintings may beintroduced, representing two different ways of playing on theharp. Each is curious, as exemplifying a method of playing 570 POMPEII. which no modern nation has adopted. The first representsa female striking two harps at once, one held on her knee,the other placed beside her on a couch. The curved figureof both is remarkable, and may perhaps give a new and

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