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CHAPTER IX

. THE BASILICA

_Excavation_ (1813-1816): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 86, pt. 3, pp. 111-179 passim; vol. 2, p. 13.

_Inscriptions_: C. I. L. X. 805-807, IV. pp. 113-125.

_Decoration_: MAU, Geschichte der dec. Wandmalerei, pp. 11-17.

_Reconstruction_: MAU, Roem. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), pp. 14-46, vol. 6 (1891), pp. 67-71, vol. 8 (1893), pp. 166-171; cf. also WOLTERS, Das Chalcidicum der Pompejanischen Basilica, Roem. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), pp. 47-60. Equal height of main room and corridor was first assumed by MAZOIS (Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 3, pls. 17, 18), afterward by MAU (Pomp. Beitraege, pp. 156-199). A clerestory was added by CANINA (Architettura Antica, vol. 3, pl. 93), and by LANGE (Haus und Halle, Leipzig, 1885, pp. 351-372). SCHOENE (NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 198-201) assumes an equal height for the large columns and the half-columns, with a gallery above the corridor.

_The Basilica Porcia_ [p. 70]: HUELSEN, Roem. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), pp. 84, 91. _Other references on the Roman basilicas_: HUELSEN, Nomenclator topographicus (KIEPERT and HUELSEN, Formae urbis Romae antiquae, Berlin, 1896), pp. 13-14.

_The Basilica at Fano_ [p. 71]: Vitr. V. I. 6-10; PRESTEL, Des M. Vitruvius Pollio, Basilica zu Fanum Fortunae (Strassburg, 1900). _Reconstruction_: VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Entretiens sur l'architecture (2 vols. Paris, 1863, 1872), vol. 1, pp. 150-157, and Atlas, pl. 8-10; translation of vol. 1 by VAN BRUNT (under the title Discourses on Architecture, Boston, 1873), pp. 144-149 and pls. 8-10.

_Literature relating to the origin of the Christian basilica_: DEHIO and VON BEZOLD, Die kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes, vol. 1 (Stuttgart, 1892), pp. 62-63, and LOWRIE, Monuments of the Early Church (New York, 1901), pp. 420-421; cf. also HOLTZINGER, Die altchristliche und byzantinische Baukunst (Stuttgart, 1899; in Durm's Handbuch der Architektur), pp. 19-25; KRAUS, Realencyclopaedie der christl. Alterthuemer (2 vols., Freiburg, 1882-1886), vol. I. under =Basilica=; LANGE, Haus und Halle (Leipzig, 1885), pp. 270-326; F. WITTING, Die Anfaenge christlicher Architektur (Strassburg, 1902).