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CHAPTER VII

. THE FORUM

_Excavation_ (1813-1818), _plan, remains_: FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 3, pp. 135-212, vol. 3, pp. 1-17; GELL, Pompeiana (Edit. 2, 2 vols., London, 1832), vol. 1, pp. 27-38; MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei (four parts, cited as vols.; vols. 1 and 2, 1824; vols. 3 and 4, continued by GAU, 1828-1829; Paris), vol. 3, pp. 28-36, plates 13bis, 14; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 313-319, 344-374.

_Inscriptions relating to the Forum or found in it_: C. I. L. X. 787-794, IV. pp. 4, 41, 125-127; inscription of A. Clodius Flaccus [p. 57], X. 1074.

_Statues of the Forum_ [pp. 46-48]: MAU, Die Statuen des Forums von Pompeji, Roem. Mitth., vol. 11 (1896), pp. 150-156.

_History of the colonnade_ [p. 50]: MAU, Il portico del Foro di Pompei, Roem. Mitth., vol. 6 (1891), pp. 168-176.

_Paintings illustrating the life of the Forum_ [p. 55]: Le pitture antiche di Ercolano e contorni (5 vols., Naples, 1757-1779), pp. 213, 221, 227; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1489-1500; particularly JAHN, Ueber Darstellungen des Handwerks und Handelsverkehrs auf antiken Wandgemaelden, Abhandlungen der saechsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, philologisch.-hist. Classe, vol. 5 (1870), pp. 263-318 and pl. 1-3; reproduced also by BAUMEISTER, Denkmaeler des klassischen Altertums (3 vols., Munich, 1884-1888), vol. III. Fig. 1653; SCHREIBER, Atlas of Classical Antiquities (trans. by Anderson; London, 1895), pl. 87, 88, 89.

_Shape of a typical forum contrasted with that of the agora_ [p. 57]: Vitr. V. I. 1-3.

_Admission fee_, [p. 57]: FRIEDLAENDER in MARQUARDT, Roem. Staatsverwaltung (Edit. 2), vol. 3, pp. 492-493.

_Slaves not permitted to witness the games_ [p. 58]: Cic. De harus. resp. XII. 26.

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