160 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. VII. 



appear. The ceiling has yellow strips with red interstices. The inner 

 architrave is of a brownish color, with two yellow lines to indicate the 

 subdivisions. Back of this entrance-way appears the corner of a balcony 

 in bluish gray and drab. A heavy pilaster supports the right end of an 

 Ionic architrave coming from the left. This architrave is of triple 

 width; the central portion is covered with ceiling-strips. Above is seen 

 part of a dark violet frieze with greenish leaf -pattern, suggesting dentils, 

 in the lower part. The same order is carried across the front, but it 

 seems less heavy because only a little of the under side can be seen. The 

 frieze is like that just described. Both side and front are open, the 

 external space thus revealed appearing as a white ground. 



According to the usual arrangement in this style of decoration, this 

 panel will have been placed at the left of the principal picture on the 

 wall, and a corresponding panel, in this case No. 24656, on the right. 

 There is a very similar panel in the House of the Vettii, 1 belonging to 

 the second period of the so-called Fourth Style, after 63 A. D. 2 The 

 inconsistencies in the design, particularly the lack of correspondence 

 between the two stories, are characteristic of this style, in which archi- 

 tectural motives are freely combined without regard to structural 

 probability. 3 



Height, m. 2.105 (=6 ft. 10.87 «*•)• Width, m. 0.62 ( = 2 ft. 0.4 in.). 



The fresco is considerably damaged. Diagonally across the center there is a 

 wide gap in the plaster, which has been rilled in with a modern substitute. The 

 missing portion includes the upper part of the building on the right in the first story 

 except a piece of the architrave and a fragment of the ceiling. There are also nu- 

 merous small abrasions. The paint is more faded than in No. 24656. 



There are many traces of overlapping of colors. In the architectural portion 

 black was applied first, then green or drab, then red, then yellow, indicating that the 

 decorator, after making the frame, worked fiom the innermost part of the structure 

 forward. In the dado the order was red, black, green, yellow. 



FRESCO. 24656. [Plate CXXL] 



Panel with architectural design very similar to the preceding, 

 No. 24651, except that the arrangement of the buildings is reversed. 



It is incomplete, the missing portions being the second story above 

 the spiral acroteria and part of the yellow cross-band at the bottom of 

 the dado. There are numerous small abrasions, and the colors are 



1 Mau, Roem. Mitteil. XI (1896), p. 57 (fig.), P- 49- 



2 Ibid. p. 6. 



» Cf. Mau-Kelsey, Pompeii (2d ed.). pp. 463, 467. 



Panel with plain opening in the lower story and two elaborate stories above, Casa di Apollo, 

 Pompeii (Zahn, Die schoensten Ornamenle, etc. Vol. ii, plate 43). In the Casa della Caccia, Pompeii 

 (ibid. ii. 33) the side-entrances have a door which is left open. It leads on to the top of the wainscoting to 

 which steps lead up from below, thus suggesting a stage. Both are of the Fourth Style. On the 

 possible relation of the decoration of this style to the scenae frons, cf. Puchstein, Jahrb. XI (1896), 

 Anz. pp. 28 ff., XXII (1907), Am. pp. 408 ff. 



