LUXURY IN POMPEII.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 13 November 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

LUXURY IN POMPEII.

A discovery of great interest was made not long since at Pompeii, where the excavation work is being steadily carried on. Under the ash deposits there was found an extensive villa of handsome construction and ornamented with very fine frescoes. The villa contains statues and other works of sculpture both Greek and Roman, besides very rich furniture, which is well ornamented, and also many vases of different kinds. There were also found coffers filled with gold and silver money. In the basement are great amphorae, which were used for storage purposes, and in the triclinium the tables were prepared for a banquet of 39 persons. An abundance of silverware is one of the features of the discovery, and it is raid to be equal in weight and artistic, character to the silverware discovered in the villa of Rosroreale and now possessed by the Louvre. Some of the silver pieces seem to have been taken out at a previous epoch, for there are traces of clandestine search which was made at a former date.