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Observations upon the Composition of the Colours found on the Walls of the Roman House discovered at Bignor in Sussex, by Sir Humphry Davy, Knt., F.R.S., published 1817 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 18, article, p.222) View Online
Abstract:I have examined the colours found on the walls of the Roman house discovered at Bignor in Sussex, and I find that they are similar in chemical composition to those employed in the baths of Titus at Rome, and in the houses and public buildings at Pompeii and Herculaneum.