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CHAPTER XII

. THE MACELLUM

_Excavation_ (in 1821-1822), _identification, reconstruction_: FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 2, pp. 38-56, vol. 3, pp. 31-32; GELL, Pompeiana (Edit. of 1832), vol. 1, pp. 46-68; MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 3, pp. 59-67, pl. 42-46; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 275-286; OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, pp. 120-128; Not. d. scavi, 1898, pp. 333-339.

_Other macella_ [p. 94] _in Rome_: HUELSEN, Nomenclator top. (see note to Chap. IX), p. 44. _At Puteoli_: GERVASIO, Sopra alcune iscrizioni riguardanti il Macello nell' antica Pozzuoli (Naples, 1852); published also in Memorie della regale Accademia ercolanese di archeologia, vol. 6 (1853), pp. 265-283.

_The tholus_ [p. 94]: Varro, apud Non., p. 448. The coin of Nero referred to is described by ECKHEL, Doctrina numorum veterum (Edit. 2, 8 vols., Vienna, 1792-1828), vol. 6, p. 273, and figured by COHEN, Description historique des monnaies frappees sous l'empire romain, vol. 1 (Edit. 2, Paris, 1880), p. 288; and DONALDSON, Architectura Numismatica, no. LXXII.

_Paintings in the Macellum at Pompeii_ [pp. 96-98]: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, see Topogr. Index, p. 476, under Pantheon.

_Cupids as bakers and as makers of wreaths_ [p. 98]: Museo Borb., vol. 4, pl. 47, and vol. 6, pl. 51; ROUX, Herculanum et Pompei (text by BARRE; 8 vols., Paris, 1840), vol. 2, pl. 83, 84; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 777, 800; JAHN, Abhandlungen der Koenigl. saechsichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, philolog-hist. Classe, vol. 5 (1870), pp. 315-318 and pl. 6.

_Statues found in the imperial chapel_ [p. 98]: MAU, Statua di Marcello nipote di Augusto, Atti della reale Accademia di Napoli, vol. 15 (1891), pp. 133-151; HELBIG, Osservazioni sopra i ritratti di Fulvia e di Ottavia, Mon. dei Lincei, vol. 1 (1890), pp. 573-590. Both these articles are summarized by MAU, Roem. Mitth., vol. 6 (1891), p. 268, and vol. 7 (1892), pp. 169-171. The statues were published with the names of Livia and Drusus, son of Tiberius, in the Museo Borb., vol. 3, pl. 37, 38; the right hand of Octavia is restored.

_Destruction wrought by the earthquake of 63_ [p. 101]: this matter will be discussed in an early number of the Roemische Mittheilungen.