Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Plates Ixvii. to Ixxv. of the Pompeiana refer to the Theatres and Amphitheatre. The former, as to the spectators’ part, are of the usual semi-circular form. The stage part consists of a sunk pew-like orchestra, behind which is a very shallow stage, ter- minating instead of a drop-scene, in a handsomely-fronted house, called the CUsiiim. The perfect model of the theatre at Herculaneum in the Picture Gallery at Oxford, is the most complete known specimen, and leaves nothing to be sought except the scenery and the modes of working it. Annexed to the Pompeian theatre, were a square colonnade, commonly called the soldiers’ quarters, and a school for recitation, i. e. a colonnaded building with a pulpitum. The amphitheatre is, as usual, an oval with seats running all round from the arena. The passage to the theatres was full of scrawls, written both in Greek and Latin, by persons wailing for admittance. The great square below the theatres was, acording to Vitruvius, for the reception of the audience, when forced by bad weather to leave their seats. Under this portico were cellcG or apartments, amongst which were a soap* manufactory, oil-mill, corn-mill, and prison. An inner logia was connected with a suite of apartments. There was also an exedra or recess. Helmets with vizors, gratings, or round holes, to see through, w'ere also found, probably used in the theatre; but the chief discovery was a musical instrument, supposed by Burney to be the fa- mous Clangor Tuharum, It was a curious trumpet of brass, with six ivory flutes all connected with one mouth-piece. The flutes were without finger-holes. A chain of brass hung to this instrument for the apparent purpose of securing it to the trumpe- ter’s shoulders,* The school or portico was devoted to the lectures of philosophy. Rhetoricians, and other teachers. The French have enlarged the discoveries at Pompeii, and have found, among other curious things, a subterraneous house with several stories [of one of these see Rome], a tube of stucco for the discharge of smoke at the corner of a room, a triclinium or dining- room, painted in character, with fish, poultry and game, and containing three dinner- beds of masonry, and a marble foot for the table. They also found articles, formed of bones, and a lump of pottery in the form of a leaf, covered with a very fine varnish or vitrification, which gave it a silvery or pearly aspect; therefore this vitrification was not invented by a Florentine sculptor in the 15th century. Numerous details concering Pompeian antiquities will be found in the Encyclope- dia of Antiquities. Ponte Lagano (over the Anio or Teverone near Rome). A tomb of the Plautian family, a round tower built of large blocks of Tiburtine stone, resembling the sepulchre of Cecilia Metella, both in its original form and its subsequent appropriation; It was embattled in the Middle Age, and used as a military station. Eustace^ ii. 227. Ponte Mamolo (over the Anio or Teverone). This bridge is said to have been built by Mammaea, mother of Alexander Severus. Eustace, ii. 224. PopuLoNiA (Italy). Cyclopean walls of long stones in courses, engraved in An- ticho Monumenti per servire all opera intilolata avanti il Dominio Dei Romani. Ferenze, 1810, fol. T. x. fob 1. Porto (Italy). Vestiges of the bason of the port, made by Claudius, and embel- lished by Trajan. On the right of the road leading to it, are remains of a circular temple with three arches. Miss Knight's Latinm, 102. Porto is engraved p. lOO. PoRTUS Julius (Lucrine Lake, Italy). Remains of a mole, still called Lan/erna * jQ ? ifgoap was known at the time. See Enc. of Antiquities, -f- Fompeiana, 243—24.*>. The Clangor Tubarum is engraved in Burney.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0327.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
