Chapter 562: 6. Two houses side by side, called from the features of their
peristyles, the Greater and the Smaller Fountain (1826). The small
fountain itself made of shells, the greater one encrusted with mosaics.
In the former house a remarkable painting of a sea-port, supposed to
represent Dicæarchia, or Puteoli, was discovered. Two staircases
indicate the former existence of upper rooms. Here they found oil, in
vases, with olives still swimming in it.
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