There are here several jets and spouts for the emission of water, one
(No. =339=) in the form of a pine-cone, pierced with small holes for
sending out a spray, others in the form of dolphins (No. =340=) and
the fore-part of a horse (No. =341=). The bronze stop-cocks seen in
Case 39 were used for controlling the flow of water from the cisterns
to the various parts of the house. They were inserted in the lead
water-pipes, portions of which still adhere to them. Their arrangement
is excellently illustrated by those discovered at the Roman villa at
Boscoreale, near Pompeii (see _Mon. Ant._ vii., p. 454, fig. 45_a_).
See also a gargoyle in the form of a lion for rain water (No. =342=),
and a bronze grating from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (No. =343=)
for draining it away. Various lead supply pipes and clay drain pipes
are shown in case 39.
=Heating.=--In early times houses were heated by means of a large open
hearth placed in the middle of the principal room, whence the smoke
escaped as it might, through the door, or between the roof beams. Next
followed the use of portable braziers in bronze, such as have been
found in Etruscan tombs from the seventh century B.C. (cf. Italic
Room, Cases B, C). The small braziers used for cooking, etc., in the
Hellenistic period have been mentioned above, p. 118. A system of
heating by hot air was introduced by the Romans, but was used chiefly
for the warming of baths. For the general heating of houses such an
arrangement was, until about the third century A.D. exceptional, and
Seneca, writing in the first century A.D. regards it as an enervating
luxury. Several examples of Roman terracotta flue-tiles (No. =344=)
for the transmission of hot air are seen in the bottom of Cases 39,
40.
=Shapes of Vases.=--Case 40 contains a small type-series of the
leading shapes of Greek vases, intended to teach the names current in
archaeology (No. =345=).
(300) Cf. _Ant. du Bosph. Cimm._, pl. 81, where a restoration
of a table with a leg of this kind is shown; (301) The
couch in fig. 113 is after the restoration of a couch from
Boscoreale, given in _Arch. Anzeiger_, 1900, p. 178; (304)
Cf. Furtwaengler, _Olympia, IV._, (_Die Bronzen_), pls. 28, 34;
(305) _Cat. of Lamps_, 137; (308) _ibid._, 1; (309) _ibid._,
66; (310) _ibid._, 97; (312) _Journal of Hellenic Studies_,
XXVIII., pl. 33; (313) _Cat. of Lamps_, 390; (314) _ibid._,
1437; (318) _Cat. of Lamps_, 1435; (320) _ibid._, 1511; (323)
_Excavations in Cyprus_, fig. 148, No. 4; (324, 325) _Cat.
of Vases_, IV., F 259 and F 267; (338-339) _Cat. of Bronzes_,
2573-4; (343) Newton, _Hist. Disc._, II., p. 143.
On the Greek house generally, see Daremberg and Saglio s.v.
_Domus_ and B. C. Rider, _The Greek House_. On the Roman
house, see Daremberg and Saglio, _loc. cit._, and Mau-Kelsey,
_Pompeii_.
[Footnote 41: Martial, xiv. 44:
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