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somewhat faded, but various details appear more clearly than in the 

 panel just described (24651). 



The following particulars may be mentioned. The yellow band at 

 the top of the dado has two horizontal red lines in the center and two 

 very close together near the top, a somewhat sketchy representation of 

 a wooden architrave of Ionic type. The broad vertical yellow stripe, 

 representing the exterior wall-surface, appears here on the left side, 

 accompanying the structures which occupy the front of the architectural 

 picture. The lower part of the frieze of the yellow building in the lower 

 story is ornamented with a leaf pattern suggesting dentils, when seen 

 from a little distance. In the oblong panel above the lower left hand 

 building the rosette seems to be a double flower with many petals. 1 

 The wreath is attached at the top to a sort of holder which probably 

 represents a jar with round bottom and two handles, a device which 

 may be seen still more clearly in No. 24659. 



This panel was evidently placed on the right of the principal picture. 

 From the close resemblance which it bears in design, as well as in color- 

 ing to No. 24651, it is very probable that they are from the same wall, 

 and that the principal picture stood between them. 



Height, m. 1.453 (=4 ft. 9.2 in.). Width, m. 0.66 ( = 2 ft. 1.98 in.). 



In the upper part the black and white were applied before the greens, the 

 yellow after them. The red of the border of the rosette-panel was put on after the 

 green of the interior, but before the green of the vertical stripe at the left. The 

 yellow of the narrow building at the right overlies both. Evidently the decorator 

 worked here also from the interior outward toward the spectator. The outer vertical 

 green stripe on the right shows traces of a white line, which came down the center 

 as far as the dado, but was subsequently painted over. 



FRESCO. 24659. [Plate CXXL] 



Panel with architectural design similar to the preceding, No. 24656. 

 Incomplete; the preserved portion extends but a short distance above 

 the spiral acroteria, and to about the middle of the dado. The edges 

 on both sides, including the black and yellow vertical enclosing stripes, 

 are missing. There are numerous small abrasions, as well as a larger 

 patch in the lower right corner where the outer surface of the plaster 

 is destroyed. The plaster, as it appears here, is coarse and gritty 

 nearly to the front, where it seems to have been covered by a thin 

 coating of a sort of stucco. The colors are somewhat faded. At present 

 the tints differ considerably from those of the two similar pieces, par- 

 ticularly the greens, which are lighter, and the red of the dado, which 

 is darker. 



• Four yellow rosettes in panel above door. Roux, Herculonum et Pompii, Vol. i. plate 30 (Fourth 



Style). 



