There was a single marble exedra with feet and arms of carven claws, and through the interstices of the vinery and the farther shade and foliage of the new spring, the insula of Euodus arose white and graceful.
Agrippa moved along the exedra and looked into her eyes.
The exedra is also adorned with many other paintings and ornaments which it would be too long to describe.
The large exedra at the southern side contains on the ground-floor a vast central saloon, and two side rooms.
The brickwork and the architecture of this exedra seem to be of the time of Hadrian, and the bricks found here with labels give the date of A.
The upper level of the semicircular exedra was filled by a large chamber, the side of which, towards the stadium, was occupied by a line of granite columns, fragments of which remain in the arena below.
H] [Illustration: Exedraof the House of Siricus (See p.
At that instant a tremendous shock shook the house to its foundations; the hanging lamps lurched; the exedrajarred and in an instant several of the servants appeared at various openings into passages.
Lounging on an exedra was a young woman in a woolen chiton, barefoot and trifling with the Greek ampyx that bound her golden hair.
A marble exedra built in a semicircle sat in the farther end, facing a chair wholly of ivory set beside a lectern of dull brass.
She sat in the exedra and listened eagerly to the things he said with her finger-tips on her lips and her eyes gazing from under her brow as her head drooped.
A wick coated with aromatic wax burned in the brass bowl on a tripod and cast a crystal clear light down upon the exedra and the delicate lectern with its rolls of parchment and brass cylinders from which they had been withdrawn.
At either end of the exedraon a pedestal formed by the arms, a brass staff upheld a flat lamp that cast its luster down on the seat by night.
In shelter behind the exedrashe halted, fended from him by the marble seat.
Amaryllis sat in her ivory chair; opposite her in the exedra was Philadelphus.
There are benches on the north side of the court, and at the middle a deep recess, or exedra (b), making a pleasant retreat for quiet conversation.
On either side of the exedra were two dining rooms (I, J), one open in its entire breadth upon the second peristyle, the other having a narrow door with two windows.
There was also a little fountain in the exedraat the rear of the peristyle.
The frescoing on the walls of the sleeping rooms presents a brilliant variety of colors; the decoration of the exedra is in yellow.
The open front of the broad exedra (H) was adorned with two columns, and at the rear was a window extending almost from side to side, opening upon the second peristyle.
The best examples are the capitals of the columns and pilasters of the exedra in the house of the Faun.
The stucco was generally white, but color was sometimes employed, as in the Corinthian columns and pilasters of the exedra in the same house, which are painted a deep wine red.
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