Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00mauauoft (find matches)
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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cond pressing. 4. Holes for the standards of the press beams. 5. 5. Holes for the posts at the ends of the two windlassesused in raising and loweringthe press beams.6. Pit affording access to the frame-work by which the windlassposts were tied down. Q. Corridor.1. Wine vats. R. Court for the Fermentationof Wine. 1. Channel for the fresh grape juice coming from P. 2. Fermentation vats, dolia. 3. Lead kettle over a fireplace. 4. Cistern curb. S. Room — Use unknown. T. Threshing Floor. U. Open Cistern for the Waterfalling on the ThreshingFloor. V-V. Sleeping Rooms. W. Entrance to Cellar underthe Inner End of the Sec-ond Wine Press ; see B. 4. X. Room with Hand Mill. Y. Room with Oil Press. 1. Foundation of the press. 2. Hole for the standard of the press beam. 3. Entrance to cellar with ap- pliances for securing the pressbeam. 4. Holes for the windlass posts. 5. Hole affording access to the fastenings of the windlassposts. 6. Receptacle for the oil. Z. Room containing the OliveCrusher.
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* - PLAN IV.—PLAN OF THE VILLA RUSTICA AT BOSCOREALE. CHAPTER XLIV THE VILLA RUSTIC A AT BOSCOREALE Less than two miles north of Pompeii, near the village of Bos-coreale, a farmhouse was excavated in 1893-94 on the propertyof Vincenzo de Prisco. In the last century similar buildingswere brought to light in the vicinity of Castellammare, but theywere covered up again. Especial importance attaches to thisvilla rustica, both on account of the extreme rarity of examplesof the type and because of the character of the remains,which makes it possible to determine the arrangements withcertainty. The living rooms, the stable, and the rooms used for themaking of wine and oil were all under one roof. The size ofthe building is not so great as might have been assumed fromthe variety of purposes which it served ; the enclosed area,exclusive of the threshing floor, measures about 125 by 80 feet.The plan (Plan IV) is regular, the principal entrance being nearthe middle of the southwest side. The e

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