DISCOVERY OF A LARGE HOUSE IN POMPEII.
* A house of five stories (leaning against % rising ground) has just been excavated In Pompeii, in which important iresooes are still In a good state of preservation. In the principal room ia a representation of Bellerophon — a youth holding the winged Pegasus with one hand, while with the other he receives the orders from Proetus, who Ib seated on a richly decorated throne. The lower part of the honae b divided into bath rooms. The paintIngs in the frigidarium are specially wellpreserved — a nymph riding on a seahorse, and a frieze with comic scenes of Sigmles fighting birds and crocodiles in !gypt.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6989, 14 February 1891, Page 4
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109DISCOVERY OF A LARGE HOUSE IN POMPEII. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6989, 14 February 1891, Page 4
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