This street scene in Pompeii has a lovely brick archway framing, ominously enough, Mt. Vesuvius. There were eight different gateways to the city of Pompeii--but more of that later.
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For more on the archaeology of Pompeii, see Pompeii: Buried in Ashes. Also see the Walking Tour of the House of the Faun.
Beard, Mary. 2008. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
