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Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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out by Fiorelli (p. 34). theboundaries being marked by broken lines. The Insulae are designated byArabic numerals. Stabian Street, between Stabian and Vesuvius gates, separating RegionsVIII. VII, and VI, from I. IX, and Y, is often called Cardo. from analogywith the cardo maximus (the north and south line) of a Roman camp. NolaStreet, leading from the Xola Gate, with its continuations (Strada deltaFortuna. south of Insulae 10. 12. 13. and 14 of Region VI, and Stradadella Terme, south of VI, 4. 6. 8). was for similar reasons designated as theGreater Decuman, Dea/ma/uts Maior; while the street running from theWater Gate to the Sarno Gate (Via .Marina, Abbondanza Street. Strada deiDiadumeni) is called the Lesser Decuman, Deannanits Minor. The only Regions wholly excavated are VII and VIII : but only a smallportion of Region VI remains covered. The towers of the city wall are designated by numbers, as they are sup-posed to have been at the time of the siege of Sulla, in 89 B.C. (p. 234).
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as 83 1 ::i PLAN I. —OUTLINE PLAN OF POMPEII- CHAPTER V A BIRDS-EYE VIEW The outline of Pompeii, with its network of streets, may betraced on the accompanying plan. The city took its shape from the end of the old lava stream onwhich it lay, which ran southeast from Vesuvius. It formed anirregular oval a little less than four fifths of a mile (1200 metres)long and a little more than two fifths of a mile (720 metres) widein its greatest dimensions. On three sides, west, south, and east,the wall of the city ran along the edge of the hill; on the north-west side, between the Herculaneum and Capua gates, it passeddirectly across the ridge formed by the lava. The eight gates are known by the modern names given on ourplan. Two of them, the Herculaneum and Capua gates, lie atthe points where the wall comes to the edge of the lava bed oneither side ; the streets that led from them descended to theplain. At the Herculaneum Gate the much travelled highwayfrom Naples, passing through Herculaneu

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