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VIII.3.24.

Contributor: Yifan Li
Published: 2021-04-21
Last modified: 2026-07-29

Excavation Dates

Unspecified

Garden Description

A. The earthquake destroyed an elegant house on this site and this house was subsequently rebuilt on the ruins. A long fauces terminated in the garden (a) which was bounded on the north and part of the east and west sides by a portico. A low wall connected the supporting columns with an entrance on the west and east and two puteals integrated into the wall. The original excavation plan shows a water channel bordering the garden on the west, north and east sides. B. Backed up to the ancient caupona there was a second garden (b) next to the triclinium (c).

Plans

Plan of Region VIII Insula III

Bibliography

  • Breton, Pompeia, pp. 497-498 and drawing of stibadium on p. 499 (worldcat)
  • Fiorelli, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 328, 330 (worldcat)
  • Jashemski, Gardens, vol. II, p. 211 (worldcat)
  • Niccolini, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei designati e descritti, vol. 2, "Descr. gen," p. 66 (worldcat)
  • Pernice, Hellenistische Tische, Zisternenmündungen, Beckenuntersätze, Altäre und Truhen p. 15 (worldcat)

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