You go up to it through Porticoes, and up a rough white stair, with innumerable swallows in nests of feathers protruding from a level line of holes in, the hot, sun-lit wall just above your head on the right hand; and past little rest rooms for worshippers on the left, of plain whitewashed stone, and earth floors, all in shadow.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Porticoes and colonnades gave shelter from the heat to the passers-by, and two fountains played at the further end.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
On the eastern side of the forum of Pompeii there is a building and enclosure, with the remains of Porticoes, colonnades, and fountains, which are supposed to have been a cloth market.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill