_Excavation_ (1770): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp.
245-246, 248, 253 et seq. (p. 254, discovery of the instruments from
which the house takes its name).
_Plan, construction, restoration_: PIRANESI, Antiquites de Pompei,
vol. 1, pl. 14-21; MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 2, p. 51, and
pl. 13 (plan); FIORELLI, Gli scavi di Pompei dal 1861 al 1872, pp. 79,
83; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 402-412; MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, 37-41,
49-51 (proof that the measurements of the house conform to the Oscan
standard); OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, pp. 279-281; GREENOUGH, Harvard
Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 1 (1890), pp. 10-11 (plan showing
conformity of the chief measurements to the proportions recommended by
Vitruvius).
_Mural paintings_: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1427 _b_, 1443, 1459, and
pp. CVIII-CIX with note 4 on p. CXXV; cf. also MAU, Geschichte der
dec. Wandmalerei, p. 66. For the woman painting, see JAHN,
Abhandlungen der Koenigl. saechsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,
philologisch-hist. Classe, vol. 5, pp. 298-305, and pl. 5.