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Achaea / Aegina

Grove at the shrine of Aiakos

Evidence for a temple grove on Aegina exists only in a literary reference. Pausanias (2.29.6) wrote that the shrine of Aiakos was surrounded by a grove of olive trees. Pausanias ...
Achaea / Athens

Altar of the Twelve Gods

A grove of olive and laurel trees surrounding the Altar of the Twelve Gods in the Athenian Agora is mentioned in the late 1st century CE by the Roman writer Statius in his epic ...
Achaea / Athens

Garden of Epicurus

In the 4th century BCE, the schools and gardens of the philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastos and Epicurus were built in the vicinity of the gymnasia in the suburbs of ...
Achaea / Athens

Gymnasia and Groves

The three most famous gymnasia in Athens, situated outside the city in naturally well-watered and shady sanctuaries of pre-Classical date, were those in the suburbs. In the ...
Achaea / Athens

Library of Hadrian

The most monumental building dedicated to education and intellectual pursuits in Athens was the so-called Library of Hadrian (Fig. 1). It consisted of four columned halls with ...
Achaea / Athens

Neoplatonic School Near the Areopagus

Several houses with peristyle courtyards were built north of the Areopagus in the second half of the 4th century CE. These have been interpreted as schools of the Neoplatonic ...
Achaea / Athens

Palace of the Giants

A large complex of the early 5th century CE in the southern part of the Agora on the site of the earlier Odeon of Agrippa generally has been interpreted as a late Roman gymnasion ...
Achaea / Athens

Temple of Hephaistos

On the western edge of the Athenian Agora on Kolonos hill was the Temple of Hephaistos, built in the second half of the 5th century BCE. Excavations in 1937 around the temple ...
Achaea / Athens

Urban Houses near the Areopagus

Several Roman houses in Athens make use of the remains of Classical and Hellenistic buildings, and, as far as we can tell, these houses generally had courtyards paved with marble ...
Achaea / Aulis

Sanctuary of Artemis

The Greeks in Homer's Iliad sacrificed to Artemis at Aulis in Boeotia in the hopes of favorable winds to carry them from Greek shores to Troy (Il. 2.305-310). The late 5th ...
Achaea / Corinth

The Circus of Roman Corinth

The circus of Roman Corinth was excavated in 1967-1968 in the so-called Gymnasium area to the north of the city. The eastern curved meta, a portion of the spina (a total of 19 ...
Achaea / Delos

Agora of the Italians

The Agora of the Italians, with a size of some 6,000 square meters, is situated prominently in the center of Delos, between the famous sanctuary of Apollo to the south and the ...
Achaea / Delos

House of Fourni

In the Late Hellenistic houses of Delos the impluvia of peristyle courtyards were usually paved, and rainwater falling into these courtyards was emptied as wastewater by sewers ...
Achaea / Delos

Kitchen and Commercial Gardens

The inscriptions of the sanctuary of Apollo mention nearly 30 kepoi within the period of 433 BCE to 156/155 BCE, which were either private or belonged to Apollo and were rented ...
Achaea / Delos

Peristyle Gardens in the Quarter of the Theater

In the Late Hellenistic houses of Delos the impluvia of peristyle courtyards were usually paved, and rainwater falling into these courtyards was emptied as wastewater by sewers ...
Achaea / Epidauros

Sanctuary of Hyernetho

According to local legend, the Argive maiden, Hyrnetho, died in an ancestral struggle and was buried on this site (Pausanias, 2.28.6-7). The sanctuary lay in the midst of a grove ...
Achaea / Eua

Villa of Herodes Atticus

A large (20,000 sq. m.) villa on a small hill near the ancient site of Eua has been systematically excavated since the 1980s. Most of the discoveries, however, remain unpublished....
Achaea / Isthmia

Sanctuary of Poseidon

We know of a grove of trees in the precinct of the temple of Poseidon, thanks to Pausanias' and Strabo's descriptions of it in the early 1st and the later 2nd century CE (Strab. ...
Achaea / Kyrtones

Sanctuary of Apollo and the Nymphs

A grove and shrine of Apollo in the mountaintop town of Kyrtones in Boeotia was visited by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE (9.24.4). There was also a natural spring at the site, ...
Achaea / Megalopolis

Sanctuary of Zeus Philios

Pausanias mentioned a small grove of trees in the sanctuary of Zeus Philios that was in close proximity to the agora in Megalopolis (8.31.4-5). The grove was enclosed within a ...
Achaea / Nemea

Sanctuary of Zeus

The grove of trees at the temple of Zeus is known through Pausanias' description of it (2.15.2) and from archaeological excavations in the temple precinct. Excavations in the ...
Achaea / Nicopolis

Victory Monument of Augustus

The tropaeum of Nicopolis, a monument celebrating the naval victory of Octavian over the joint forces of Anthony and Cleopatra at Actium, is situated on the so-called Sacred Hill ...
Achaea / Olympia

Guest House 1

A Roman guest house of the 2nd century CE, so-called Guest House I, was erected southeast of the Roman Kladeos baths of ca. 100 CE (Fig. 3, A on plan). The guest house had a ...
Achaea / Olympia

Guest House 2

In the first third of the 3rd century CE another guest house, so-called Guest House II (B on plan), was built at Olympia, immediately east of and connected with Guest House I (see...
Achaea / Olympia

House of Nero

This house was built at the time of, and possibly for, the emperor Nero, who, on several occasions in the mid-1st century CE, performed personally in the games at Olympia. To ...
Achaea / Olympia

Leonidaion

This building southwest of the temple of Zeus was the largest guest house in the sanctuary at Olympia. The original Leonidaion, a gift of Leonidas from Naxos, was built shortly ...
Achaea / Olympia

Sanctuary of Zeus

The extensive sanctuary at which Panhellenic athletic games took place, was situated on the Alpheus river in groves of trees of ancient date. In early Greek mythology, the semi-di...
Achaea / Onchestos

Sanctuary of Poseidon Onchestios

According to Pausanias, the ancient city of Onchestos in Boeotia lay in ruins by the time he visited the site in the 2nd century CE, but the shrine and statue of Poseidon ...
Achaea / Phigalia

Sanctuary of Ganymede or Hebe

The only indication that there was a garden at this sanctuary is a literary reference to a grove of cypress trees. According to Pausanias (2.13.3), this ancient sanctuary in the ...
Achaea / Sikyon

Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone

Pausanias gave directions on how to reach the grove called Pyraia, located near the city of Sikyon (2.11.3). He did not reveal what kind of trees grew here, but the grove was ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

East Temple (Temple de l'Est)

A strip of soil bordered most of the long sides of the temple and the mosaic paving in front of it (Plan view, Fig. 1). Preliminary excavations in 1990 in a strip 1m wide at the ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

House of Neptune (Maison de Neptune)

The house was laid out around a peristyle garden (IV-VIII), with four porticos supported by twelve columns. A low wall separated the porticos from the garden (Plan view, Fig. 1). ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

House of Nicentus (Maison de Nicentus)

The house is adjacent to the E angle of the Forum at the back of the Curia. It was laid out around a peristyle garden (VI-X) of 12 columns (Plan view, Fig. 1). A low wall ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

House of the Palms (Maison des Palmes)

The house of the Palms was located to the NW of the forum. A semicircular basin was installed at a later date over the mosaic in the NW portico at the edge of what was perhaps a ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

House of the Protomes (Maison des Protomés)

This very large house on the western edge of the site had two sectors, the Trifolium area and the Protomes area (Plan view, Fig. 1). The Trifolium sector, was laid out around a ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

Temple of Baalat (Temple de Balaat)

Only the central passage (III) way leading to the temple (IV) was paved. The rest of the courtyard (II), which was enclosed by a portico (I), was probably planted as in temple E (...
Africa Proconsularis / Thuburbo Maius

Temple of Caelestis (Temple de Caelestis)

The marble causeway leading to the temple was bordered on each side with soil that was probably planted as in temple E (Plan view, Fig. 1). Plans Fig. 1: Plan of the Temple of ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

House of the Trifolium (Maison du Trifolium)

This house is the largest excavated to-date at Thugga. It appears to date from the first half of the 3rd century. The rooms on the ground floor were arranged around a large court,...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

The anonymous sanctuary, Dar Lachheb

The anonymous sanctuary, called Dar Lachheb (184-187 CE), located about fifty meters below the forum, is of African type. In line with the entrance to the complex, a large cella ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

The sanctuary of Caelestis

The sanctuary of Caelestis, installed on the north-western outskirts of the city, was built on a sizeable plot of land allocated to it by its commissioner during the reign of ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

The sanctuary of Minerva 2

The sanctuary of Minerva 2, (138-161 CE), built later than the templa Concordiae, presents a very different configuration. The cella, projecting outwards from the courtyard lined ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

The sanctuary of the Victories of Caracalla

The sanctuary of the Victories of Caracalla, situated in the southwest of the forum, was built in a residential area in 214 CE on a particularly cramped and steep site. Its urban ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

Sanctuary B, the templa Concordiae

Sanctuary B, the templa Concordiae (117-138 CE), is a monument from the time of Hadrian dedicated to several deities, four of whom are known from the texts: Concordia, Frugifer, ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thugga

Theater

At the rear of the theater is a xystis known from the dedication inscription (CIL VIII 26606, 26608). The word xystis probably corresponds to the portico and the semi-circular ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thysdrus

House of the Lucius Verus

The house was laid out around a large persityle garden of twenty-two columns (20 x15.5 m) that had a euripus and a semicircular basin facing a large reception room (Plan view, ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thysdrus

House of the Dolphins (Maison des dauphins)

The vast house (3000-3500 m2) is laid out around a large peristyle garden (Plan view, Fig.1). The large sunken garden (X, 16 x 16.25 m) was enclosed by a low wall (0.70 m high) ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thysdrus

House of the Peacock (Maison du Paon)

This large house (1800 m2) adjacent to the domus of Sollertiana on the N had a large peristyle garden (XIII, 10.50 x 13.20 m) enclosed on four sides by a portico (XIV-XVII) of 18 ...
Africa Proconsularis / Thysdrus

Sollertianna Domus

This large house (1120 m2) at the periphery of the SW quarter was laid out around a peristyle garden (VII, 8.20x11.30 m) enclosed on four sides by a portico of 14 columns that ...
Africa Proconsularis / Utica

House H (Maison H)

This house, the largest in insula III (lots 2,3,4,9,10), rivals the House of the Cascade in size and richness of mosaics. A semicircular basin extended into the garden on the S ...
Africa Proconsularis / Utica

House of the Cascade (Maison de la Cascade)

This house, the largest in the insula II (lots 2,3,8,9,10), was given its present form in the second century. A large peristyle with elaborate viridarium dominated the S part of ...
Africa Proconsularis / Utica

House of the Grand Oecus (Maison du grand oecus)

This house is the most important dwelling discovered to date at Utica. The large peristyle garden (XXVII), enclosed by a portico on four sides (XXVIII-XXX) had a long basin ...
Africa Proconsularis / Utica

House of the Treasure (Maison au trésor)

The House is located in the insula II (Lots 1,7). The peristyle garden had a semicircular basin extending from the two middle columns on the S side, facing the triclinium (XVII) ...
Africa Proconsularis / Utica

House of the West (Maison de l'est)

The peristyle garden (V) has a rectangular basin with curved angles extending from two middle columns on the W side, facing the triclinium (XI). The house is dated to the II ...
Arabia Petraea / Babatha

Babatha's Orchard

Babatha's orchard is known only from its documentation in a collection of papyrus scrolls known as the "Babatha Archive" that was discovered in 1961 in the Cave of Letters near ...
Arabia Petraea / Hauarra

Shrine Complex in Insula E125

A few decades after a Nabataean shrine (Fig. 2) at Hauarra had been severely damaged during the Roman conquest of Arabia Petraea, the site's inhabitants built another shrine at ...
Arabia Petraea / Petra

Petra Garden and Pool Complex

The only example of a garden investigated using specialized garden archaeology techniques in the region of Arabia Petraea is found at Petra. A large open area was believed to be ...
Arabia Petraea / Tyrus

Palace of Hyrcanus the Tobiad

This large preserved palace provides a rare glimpse of the kind of luxurious complex built by the late Hellenistic Alexandrian elite. According to Josephus (Antiquities Book 12:22...
Britannia

Bancroft Rural Villa

Excavations between 1983 and 1986 at this site in Buckinghamshire revealed a Roman villa of the winged corridor type, which was built in the late 3rd century and rebuilt and ...
Britannia / Camulodunum

Suburban Gardens in Camulodunum

Camulodunum began as an Iron Age settlement defended by dykes, a combination of V-shaped ditch and rampart created by the upcast earth. It extended from the Roman river on the ...
Britannia / Chedworth

Rural Villa in Chedworth

This Roman villa in Gloucestershire was partially excavated in the late 19th century, but only the built features and their mosaic floors appear to have been of interest to the ...
Britannia / Chester

Tomb Painting in Chester

Toynbee's suggestion that a military tombstone from Chester depicting a row of three gabled buildings with stylized trees or shrubs planted in front of the two at the sides ...
Britannia / Darenth

Rural Villa in Darenth

Excavations at this site of a Roman villa in Kent uncovered a large rectangular masonry pool in the courtyard, which was enclosed by buildings on the north, west, and east (Fig. ...
Britannia / Eccles

Rural Villa in Eccles

This country estate in modern Kent possessed a large ornamental pool (P in Fig. 1) in the area in front of the main residence (A in Fig. 1) and to the east of the attached bath ...
Britannia / Fishbourne

Roman Palace in Fishbourne

Fishbourne Roman Palace was accidentally discovered during the digging of a water main trench in 1960. The discovery led to nine seasons of excavations (1961-69) that showed the ...
Britannia / Frocester Court

Rural Villa in Frocester Court

This Roman villa in Gloucestershire is situated about 14 miles west of the civitas capital Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester). The main residence is of the winged corridor type, ...
Britannia / Gatcombe

Rural Estate in Gatcombe

This site of a large rural estate about 9 hectares in size in Somerset is enclosed within a massive wall (Fig.1). Although the site was not completely excavated, there is ...
Britannia / Gorhambury

Rural Villa in Gorhambury

At this site in Hertfordshire near the town of Verulamium (St. Albans) excavations have revealed a multi-phased Roman farm, characterized in late Iron Age and Roman times by an ...
Britannia / Latimer

Rural Villa in Latimer

Excavations at this country house in Buckinghamshire have produced evidence for gardens adjacent to the main residence in its latest phase dating to the beginning of the 4th ...
Britannia / Sudeley

Rural Villa in Sudeley/Spoonley Wood

The main residence of this rural estate in Gloucestershire, excavated in 1882, is of the winged corridor type (Fig. 1). From the north and south corners of the house, walls ran ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or I / House 1

Casa della Gemma (Insula or. I.1)

A. This garden (a) is built partially into the edge of the hill and partially on vaults. A square opening enclosed by a high wall in the center of the garden supplies light to ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or I / House 1

Insula or. I.1

B. The front of this house has an L-shaped terrace (b) which provided a passageway between the kitchen and the triclinium that opened onto the long loggia (c) with a spectacular ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or I / House 2-3

Casa del Rivievo di Telefo (Insula or. I.2-3)

A. The excavation of this house in 1934-1936 revealed an unusual atrium arrangement, which Maiuri states is the first time the architectural scheme that is used in a peristyle ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or I / House 2-3

Insula or. I.2-3(B)

B. From the atrium the peristyle on the lower level was reached by way of a steeply sloping corridor. Stuccoed brick columns and a low wall 0.50 m. high enclosed the central area ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or I / House 2-3

Insula or. I.2-3(C)

C. There are five rooms south of the peristyle and on a lower level beyond them is another garden (c). Plans Plan of the new excavations of Herculaneum (Maiuri, Herculaneum) ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or I / House 2-3

Insula or. I.2-3(D)

D. A rustic shrine was attached to the north side of the house and a long narrow garden (d) was located here. There was evidence of earlier construction at this location. Plans ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or II

Great Palestra (Insula or. II.4)

The Palaestra was crossed by Burbon tunnels in 1756-1760 and partially excavated from 1933 to 1954. Carbonized remains of large tree trunks found in the southwest corner and ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula Or II

Insula or. II

Directly south of the Great Palaestra there is a peristyle garden (a) enclosed by a portico. A pool with a low wall surrounding it is located in the center of this garden. Plans ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula VI

Casa del Colonnato Tuscanico (VI.17/26)

This house with an L-shaped floor plan had a peristyle garden (a) at the juncture of the two wings enclosed by a seventeen column portico. The garden entrance facing the large ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula VI

Casa del Salone Nero (VI.13/11)

Excavation of this garden (a) to the rear of this elegant house took place in the spring of 1939. The garden was completely surround by a portico which had eight columns and two ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum / Insula VII

Casa di Galba (VII.2)

The excavation of this site was begun in 1873-1874 and is still incomplete. A silver bust, supposedly of the emperor Galba, found in the street in front of this house gave the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Herculaneum

Sacred Area Outside the South Walls

The southern edge of town was against a sharp drop to the sea. A terrace located on this drop held two shrines (a) and (b) and a series of rooms for cult activities. All of these ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

Garden Houses (Case a Giardino)

The area in which these houses are situated was laid out as a residential area in c. 128 CE as part of the Hadrianic remodeling of Ostia (Fig. 1). It is delimited by buildings of ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

House of Amor and Psyche

The entrance of this house (Fig. 1) (which takes its name from the statuary group found in room b) provides access to a large portico (a) with four columns on marble bases, ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

House of the Bucrania

In the summer of 2002 part of the hortus of the Domus with peristyle was excavated (in the west corner) (Fig. 1, d). At 80 cm under the present sea level, part of the garden of a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

House of the Fortuna Annonaria

The peristyle garden (Fig. 1, a) has travertine columns on three sides. The fourth side coincides with the perimeter wall of the house, which forms part of the original plan, ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

House of the Thunderbolt (Domus Fulminata)

The peristyle garden, excavated in 1941, was surrounded by a portico on all four sides, supported by brick columns, some of which were paired or clustered in threes (Fig. 1). In ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

House on Via del Tempio Rotondo

This house was only partially excavated between June 1972 and January 1973 (Fig. 1). In its Augustan phase the peristyle garden (a) was adorned with a large central basin paved ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

House with Peristyle

During the winter 1938-1939 part of an earlier building was found under the occupation level of the Schola of the Trajan. It was called House with peristyle, as the main ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

Insula dei Dipinti

The large open area in this insula, divided into two by a wall, was identified as a garden at the time of excavation (1914 to 1919), but on little evidence apart from the absence ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

Piazzale della Corporazioni

In the original plan of the Augustan period the garden area to the back of the theater was surrounded on three sides by a roofed corridor opening onto the Tiber on the northern ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Ostia

Schola of Trajan

The monumental complex of the Schola of the Trajan, presumed headquarters of the corporation of the marine carpenters, was built c.160-200 and abandoned after the 4th century CE. ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.10 House of L. Vousius Faustus and M. Volusius Faustus

The garden at the rear of the house, excavated in 1873, is almost totally destroyed. According to Mau, most of the garden was occupied by a large pool (5m X 2.90m) which was ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.15

This humble house was excavated in 1873. It had no garden but the impluvium was surrounded by a low masonry wall. The top contained a planting bed which served as a small garden. ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.16

This house was excavated in 1873. The entranceway led directly to the portico which enclosed the garden on the north and east. In the northwest corner of the portico a masonry ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.17

A. At the rear of the house was a very small garden entered from the tablinum. Excavated in 1872, much of the garden was occupied by two small raised pools, according to Mau. ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.20 Caupona of Innulus

This small caupona had a garden at the rear with a roofed passageway on the east and the south. It was excavated in 1873 and a masonry biclinium (l. medius, 2.65m.; l. imus 2.94 ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.22

This caupona was excavated in 1873 but the reports offer insufficient details to determine if the open area had been planted. The room was entered directly from the street and ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.24 Officina Libraria

The garden east of the atrium had a portico extending along the south and part of the west sides. A low wall (0.52m high) connected the columns and an entrance to the garden was ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.3

The small viridarium at the rear of the house had narrow, slightly raised beds along the walls on the north and east side. These beds were for the cultivation of flowers, ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula II

I.2.6

The west portico of the small peristyle garden at the rear of the house was entered through two doors directly from the atrium. The garden was enclosed on four sides by a portico ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula III

I.3.20/22

At the rear of this house there was a garden with a passageway on the north and the west. The garden had a gutter along the east, north, and west edges. Embedded in the garden ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula III

I.3.23 House of Actius Anicetus

This site was excavated in 1868 revealing a peristyle garden at the rear of the house. A portico on the east and north side was supported by five columns connected by a low wall. ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula III

I.3.24 House of Capella

At the rear of the house, excavated in 1868, there was a peristyle garden with a portico supported by three brick columns on the east and north sides. The south wall had a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula III

I.3.25

A. This house had an irregular plan and a small peristyle garden enclosed on three sides by a low masonry wall. The wall was topped by four stuccoed brick columns which supported ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula III

I.3.3 House of Epidius Fortunatus

A. On the right of the tablinum were ten steps that led to the peristyle garden. A portico enclosed the garden on the west, north and east sides. This was supported by ten ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula III

I.3.30

This small house, excavated in 1872, had no atrium and the peristyle garden was to the right of the north end of the entrance passageway. A portico enclosed the garden on the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula IV

I.4.11 Caupona of Copious

This modest caupona had a garden at the rear that was raised one step higher than the rest of the building. It once had a masonry altar with a lararium painting above but both of ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula IV

I.4.2

This peristyle garden had two entrances on the west and the south. It was located at the rear of the tablinum and had a portico on the west and south enclosed by a low wall and ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula IV

I.4.22

Directly to the rear of the atrium, a small viridarium with a paved space (1.70 x 2.50m) behind it suggested use as a summer triclinium to Fiorelli. Soprano was certain that ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula IV

I.4.5/25 House of the Citharist

A. Excavation took place at this large house intermittently form 1853 to 1869. There were three large parallel, adjacent gardens. A portico, supported by seventeen stuccoed ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula IV

I.4.9

This garden contains a cistern opening and form the entrance a viridarium at the rear of the tablinum and a niche lararium are clearly visible. Bibliography Boyce, G.K. 1937. ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula V

I.5.2 Officina Coriarioum of M. Vesonius Primus

A. This tannery was excavated in 1873-1874. The peristyle courtyard had a portico to the north and east supported by brick pillars which had been most likely been built when the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula V

I.5.3/16

This site had been destroyed in antiquity and probably had been a hospitium. Excavated in 1874, the remains of a watering trough for animals and a stable were uncovered. Often ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula VI

I.6.13 House of Stallus Eros

At the rear of this house a masonry wall surrounded the small garden which was undergoing extensive repairs at the time of the eruption. A lararium niche was located on the east ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula VI

I.6.7 Fullonica of Stephanus

This house had been converted to a fullery and the small peristyle garden to the rear probably served as a drying area. Five pillars of the portico were connected by a low, ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula VI

I.6.8-9

This modest house had rooms opening off the small peristyle garden at the rear of the structure. The rooms had been remodeled to serve as a shop and at the time of the eruption, ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula VII

I.7.15-17 Shop-House

The shop-house was laid out in a very irregular manner and the garden took up most of the space. There was a masonry triclinium in the southern part of the garden. This had a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula VII

I.7.18 Shop-House

Two paintings were found on the west wall of the atrium behind this shop, one was of a porticus villa on the sea and the second was a garden representation (o.16 x 0.43 m.). The ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio I / Insula VII

I.7.7 House of the Priest Amandus

One step above the level of the triclinium of this small house with an irregular floor plan was a peristyle garden. It was to the west of the atrium and enclosed on the north and ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula I

II.i.8-9 A

The access to this garden featured an arched niche high on the garden wall located either side of the direct entrance from the street at entrance 8. A further entrance (7A) from ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula I

II.i.3-7

The garden in the southeast section of this area was shared the house at entrance 3 and shops 4, 5, and 6 on the Via dell'Abbondanza. It was also possible to enter the garden ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula I

II.i.12 (House of the Birii; House of the Sibyl)

The worship of the Thracian-Phrygian vegetation god, Sabazius, took place in this large peristyles (Roman courtyards) garden which was entered through a wide vestibule from the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula I

II.i.2 (House of Aemilius Primio and Aemiluis Saturninus)

Behind the shop, living quarters were located, including a garden to the rear. The west garden wall was topped with the broken amphorae]; this wall was shared with the rear open ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula I

II.i.7A/11

A. (Entrance 7A) A square garden area was tucked behind two rooms. The beginnings of an arc-shaped structure in the northeast corner could have been the beginning of an ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula II / House 2

II.ii.2 (House of D. Octavius Quartio)

A. The spacious Tuscan atrium of this luxurious house excavated in 1918-1921 was a lavish garden. A low, double masonry wall, faced with marble on the outside, bordered the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula II / House 4

Peristyle garden in house of Messius Ampliatus (II.ii.4)

The portico which bordered the peristyle garden on the north and east side was accessed from the entrance hall. This site had been extensively damaged prior to excavation. Bibliog...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula II / House 4

II.ii.4

The east portico gave access to the narrow garden to the back of the house. Bibliography Jashemski, W.F. 1979. 'The Garden of Hercules at Pompeii' (II.viii.6): The Discovery of a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula III

II.3.4-6

A. A small garden at the rear of this connected house and caupona may have originally contained the two small statuettes found at this site in 1953. The two pieces were a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula III

II.3.7/9

This garden restaurant was strategically located across from the Palaestra. This garden occupied most of the southern part of this insula and had a masonry triclinium (l. medius, ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula IV

II.4 Estate of Julia Felix; Praedia di Giulia Felice

Three separate gardens were located in this property. A. Garden A (entrance 9) occupies the entire insula and is one of the largest properties in the city. It was originally ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula IX

II.ix.4 Casa del Larario Fiorito

Excavated in the later 1980s, this property features a garden, described by Ciarallo as "laid out in eight ground strips bordered by furrows." She interprets this layout as a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula IX

II.9.6-7 House of Summer Triclinium

To the west of the Great Palaestra there was a large garden which was partially excavated in 1954-1956. A low masonry wall with planting spaces in the top enclosed an elaborate ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula IX

II.9.6-7 House of Summer Triclinium

This vineyard section of the property was excavated in 1984 by Dr. De Caro. A small peristyle garden was enclosed on the east and south by a three column portico with a pilaster ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula V

II.v Large Vineyard

Located north of the amphitheater, this site was initially identified as the Foro Boario or Cattle Market. A small amount of excavation was started in 1755, but in 1814 the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula VII

II.vii The Great Palaestra

Colonnaded porticoes encircled the palaestra on the south, west and north. A large swimming pool (34.55 m x 22.25 m) was located in the center. Casts made of tree cavities ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula VIII

II.8.1

Jashemski examined this sizeable garden to the rear of this property in 1957 and concluded that the pronounced north-south furrows bordered by water channels indicated that this ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula VIII

II.viii.5B Caupona

Another small garden was found to the rear of the caupona. Plans Fig. 62, Plan of Region II, insula viii Bibliography Jashemski, W. 1993. Gardens of Pompeii, vol.II, p.94 (worldca...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula VIII

II.8.6 House of the Garden of Hercules

A large aedicula lararium on the east wall and a large triclinium (l. medius, 4.40 m.; l. imus 4.00; l. summus 3.80 m.; table between couches 1.00 x 1.67m.) were found in the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio II / Insula VIII

II.8.2-3

Customers at this thermopolium were served at a counter looking onto the street and at the masonry triclinium (l. medius, 3.60 m.; l. imus 2.85; l. summus 2.30 m.) in the rear ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.1. House of Championnet I

This house was excavated in 1799 and to the rear of the tablinium there was a portico which enclosed an area surrounded by a gutter. Openings were cut in the floor where the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.13.

The room (b) to the east had a good view into this garden (a) which was located to the rear of the tablinium. A column supported portico bordered the garden on the east and south....
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.14/16.

A. The volcanic ledge that this peristyle garden (a) was built on dictated an irregular shape to the portico that enclosed it. The portico had fourteen columns and a rectangular ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.18-20.

A. The Sarno Bath is included in this block of irregular shaped houses, reached by entrance 17 on the Via della Scuole that goes to the lower levels. On the street level there ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.29-30.

There was a narrow portico on the eastern lower level of this double house 2.20 m. wide with columns connected by a wooden fence. Several steps lower the construction of a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.3. House of Championnet II

This house, very similar to VII.ii.1, was also excavated in 1799. This peristyle garden had fourteen columns and was more rectangular. There was a terrace to the rear and a small ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.34.

A colonnaded portico stood at the edge of the terrace (a) on the street level of this house. Below it was another terrace enclosed by a low wall. Sogliano and Mau disagree as to ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.36/37.

This house was excavated in 1885. The entrance at 37 went into the atrium and beyond that, up two steps, was the peristyle with a portico on three sides supported by stuccoed ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula II

VIII.2.39. House of Emperor Joseph II

This was the last of the houses to be built on the Via della Regina, all of which were built over the south wall of the city. Located directly west of the Triangular Forum, it ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.14. House of Queen Carolina; House of Adonis

A large aedicula shrine was built against the rear wall of this long garden (a) directly across from the north side of the atrium, which was entirely open to this view. The ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.15. Caupona

This caupona had originally been part of a house according to Fiorelli. The unusual building had a garden (a) in the northeast corner that occupied over one quarter of the house ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.18/16-17. House of Diana

When this house was excavated in 1826, Fiorelli determined that after the earthquake it had been divided into two separated residences. The southeast corner was the location of a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.21.

This small house had a roofed passageway supported by one column that bordered the garden (a) on the south and east. A low masonry wall enclosed the garden on these same sides ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.24.

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 ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.27.

From the street, the fauces led to the entrance to the garden (a) which was enclosed on the south and west by a portico with five columns and two engaged columns, all connected ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.31. Case di Pan

This house, excavated in 1829-1830, had a peristyle garden (a) on the south side of the property, to the right of the atrium. A portico on the north and part of the south sides ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula III

VIII.3.4. House of Hercules and Auge; House of the Popidii

A. Past the tablinium of this house there was a garden (a) with a portico on the north and most of the west side. B. The garden (a) had an entrance to this area (b) which was ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula IV

VIII.4.12-13. Shop-House

These two shops, excavated in 1861, shared a house and a garden (a) to the back. A portico enclosed the garden on all four sides. In the southwest corner of the garden there was ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula IV

VIII.4.26-29. Bakery and House of Felix

Directly across from the Temple of Isis was an entryway to this garden (a) which was located to the rear of the house. On the east there was a portico with two columns and high ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula IV

VIII.4.30.

This tiny house with the small atrium and adjacent rooms had formerly been a porticoed garden, part of house 15 according to Fiorelli. Plans Plan of Region VIII Insula IV ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula IV

VIII.4.33.

This garden (a) was tucked around the right end of a long fauces which led from the street. The garden was enclosed by a low wall and a gutter on the north and west and a narrow ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula IV

VIII.4.9. House of T. Mescinius Gelo

What was formerly a garden with a pool was converted into a large open area (a) by the demolition of some walls to the rear of the tablinium. Significant remnants of woolen and ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.15-16/18.

A. Over half the depth of the insula was crossed by a long angiportus which led from the Via dell'Abbondonza to an open area (a) past a wide portico. This extensive area was most ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.2. Casa del Gallo; House of the Cock

At the time of the eruption this peristyle garden (a) was in the process of renovation. Located behind the tablinium, the white fluted columns on the east and north were still ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.20/17. Caupona

Entry no. 17 from the angioportus offered a second access to this garden at the rear of the caupona. The rear wall was decorated with a rough painting of Silenus reclining in ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.24. Casa del Medico

The famous painting "Judgment of Solomon" (0.45 x 1.55m.; Mus. Naz. inv. no. 113 197; Ruesch no. 1343) was found in this garden (a) on the low wall that connected the four ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.37. Casa delle Pareti Rosse; House of the Fabii

This house was excavated in 1882 to reveal a small garden (a) at the rear entered by passageways on either side of the tablinium. The portico on the east had one column and two ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.39. House of Acceptus and Euhodia

A. This house was excavated in 1882 to reveal a small garden (a) at the rear entered by passageways on either side of the tablinium. The portico on the east had one column and ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula V

VIII.5.9.

At the rear of the tablinium excavated in 1881 a narrow garden (a) had a portico on the north supported by one pilaster, one engaged column and five stuccoed free-standing ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VI

VIII.6.2/7. (no. 12 at Pompeii)

At the time of the eruption this site (a) was under construction. A portico was being built on the south and west sides using brick-shaped tufa columns and three old tufa columns....
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VI

VIII.6.3. (no. 14 at Pompeii)

Only the bases remain of the fourteen brick columns that enclosed this garden (a). The area to the back of this house had been cleared of the wreckage of the earthquake, and the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VI

VIII.6.4-5. Market Garden

After the earthquake the eastern part of this insula had been converted into a market garden. When it was excavated in 1883-1884 some of the soil contours remained. A basin in ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VI

VIII.6.9-10/1. House and Bakery

The atrium at the front of this house had been converted into a bakery. Towards the back a portico surrounded a small area (a). The portico columns were black at the base and red ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.1. Caupona

This caupona, excavated in 1874, had a garden (a) across the back with a low wall on the east and a gutter that ran beside it, most of this covered by a roofed passageway. The ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.10. Shop-House

Behind shop no. 10 and the accompanying living quarters was a garden (a) enclosed by a low wall on the east with an entrance on the north end. The excavations in 1906 uncovered a ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.11.

Behind this shop and the rooms beyond that there was a garden (a). Plans Fig.23, Plan of Region VIII, Insula VII Places Regio VIII, Pompeii (Pleiades:538911200) Pompeii (inhabited...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.12.

The rear of this shop-house had a garden (a), perhaps with rooms overhead supported by columns in the garden according to Fiorelli. Plans Fig.23, Plan of Region VIII, Insula VII ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.24.

The rooms adjoining the atrium of this house, excavated in 1795-1798, had been converted to a sculptor's workshop. To the left of the atrium and up fifteen steps was a garden (a) ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.26-27.

Beyond shop 26 and the living quarters behind it there was a very large garden (a) that was entered directly from the atrium through the portico that stood at the north side of ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.28. Temple of Isis

This temple site was excavated in 1764-1766 and although, as Jashemski points out, it was likely that there was a sacred garden surrounding it, she could find no evidence of ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.30. The Triangular Forum

The Doric Temple in the Triangular Forum was excavated between 1767 and 1797. A superlative view from the colonnade at the edge of the cliff looked across the Bay and a marble ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Pompeii / Regio VIII / Insula VII

VIII.7.6.

The extremely long entranceway from the street led all the way to the back of the house into the garden (a) which was excavated in 1906. A portico bordered the garden on the east ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio III Isis Et Serapis

Domus Aurea

Famous for its innovative architecture, the Domus Aurea contained equally impressive gardens. After the fire of 64 CE, Nero erected this monumental residence, replacing the ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio III Isis Et Serapis

Porticus Liviae

Located on the Oppian hill between the Clivus Suburanus and the later Baths of Trajan (Thermae Traiani) in the Subura, the Porticus Liviae is represented on three fragments of ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio IX Circus Flaminius

Divorum

The Divorum, also known as the Templum Divorum (Degrassi 13.1.103, 233) and the Porticus Divorum, was a porticus with two small temples built in honor of Titus and Vespasian by ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio IX Circus Flaminius

Hercules Musarum

The Aedes Hercules Musarum was located in the southern Campus Martius. It was enclosed by the Porticus Philippi (61 x 92 m.) in the late Republican period. Known from several ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio IX Circus Flaminius

Mausoleum Augusti

The Mausoleum of Augustus was located in the northern Campus Martius between the Via Flaminia and the Tiber. The exact bounds of the park are unknown, but they stretched from ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio IX Circus Flaminius

Porticus of Pompey

Completed in 55 BCE on the Campus Martius, the Porticus Pompeianae, or Porticus of Pompey, was Rome's first public park (Plin. HN 37.6.13; Propertius 2.32.11 | Trans.; Vitruvius ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio IX Circus Flaminius

Thermae Agrippae

Knowledge of this thermae, or bathing complex, and its associated public gardens comes from textual evidence and the Severan Marble Plan (FUR) (Figs. 1-2). Located in the central ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Domus Augustana

LOWER PERISTYLE The lower peristyles of the Domus Augustana, the private area of the Flavian Palace, was sumptuously decorated with a large fountain in the shape of four peltae (s...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Domus Flavia, Upper Peristyle and Nymphaea

UPPER PERISTYLE AND NYMPHAEA The grandiose Palace that the architect Rabirius built for Domitian when garden art was at its apex made an enormous impression on his contemporaries,...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Domus Tiberiana

The remains of this domus, on the western part of the Palatine, are now under the Renaissance Farnese gardens. The Domus Tiberiana is first mentioned after the death of Nero: ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Neronian Palace

In the Neronian period the architecture and the size of gardens changed substantially, as did the building criteria and urban organization of the city. With Nero, the Romans ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Garden of the Flavian Imperial Palace

During the period of Domitian (81-96 CE), a large artificial platform with massive substructures at the north, east and west was completed at the site of the Vigna Barberini. On ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

House of Augustus

This important house, the Domus Augusti, which incorporated part of the earlier Domus of Quintus Hortensius (Vell. Pat. II.81 | Trans.), must have contained important gardens. ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

The Garden of the Julio-Claudian Domus

At the end of the Republican era and the beginning of the Empire, residential dwellings occupied, at least in part, the northeastern corner of the Palatine. Two distinct ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

The Late Republican Domus

In the Republican period, by the 1st century BCE, the Palatine Hill had small but numerous gardens associated with the well-appointed houses (domus) situated upon it. Among these ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

The Palatine 'Stadium'

An important garden area in the Flavian Palace was the so-called "Stadium", actually a hippodromus, as late authors in fact called it. This term, which is often used with regard ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

The Severan Complex

The most visible remains from this period are a massive series of substructure arcades along the slope of the Palatine overlooking the Circus Maximus. It had been considered that ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Gardens of the Temple of Elagabalus

The building of a religious complex, identified by scholars as the Elagabalium (Heliogablium), later dedicated to Jupiter (Iupiter Ultor), was the final transformation in ...
Italia / Latium et Campania / Roma / Regio X Palatium

Vigna Barberini

The artificial terrace that now carries the Barberini family name is located on the northeastern corner of the Palatine, beyond the visible remains of the Flavian Imperial palace ...
Judaea / Caesarea Maritima

Byzantine Law Court and Roof Garden

Byzantine Law Court and Roof Garden Architectural analysis and epigraphic finds excavated by Josef Patrich and the Combined Caesarea Excavations suggest that the buildings in the ...
Judaea / Caesarea Maritima

Promontory Palace of Herod the Great

A seaside palace west of the theater at Caesarea Maritima has been identified by E. Netzer as the maritime palace Herod the Great built to supervise construction of the great ...
Judaea / Ein Gedi

Ein Gedi Balsam Groves

The balsam groves of the Dead Sea region have been famous since the queen of Sheba (Egypt and Ethiopia) reputedly brought balsam as a gift to King Solomon (1 Kings 10:10; ...
Judaea / Herodium

Herod's Tomb Garden

In 2005, Netzer's team found the long-sought tomb of Herod, positioned on a terrace constructed into the slope of the artificial hill. This terrace was constructed of chipped ...
Judaea / Herodium

Lower Herodium Garden Complex

Lower Herodium (Fig. 1C) comprises several units. Here the central focus is the large pool, the water of which was supplied by a 6 km long aqueduct built by Herod from the spring ...
Judaea / Herodium

Palace Fortress

The Palace Fortress is a cylindrical structure originally seven stories high (two vaulted corridors in the substructure and five stories of corridors each having its floors ...
Judaea / Jericho

Herodian First Palace

s Herod may have been a regular guest at the Hasmonean palace during his boyhood. Even after he effected his rule in 37 BCE, the Hasmoneans retained possession of their winter ...
Judaea / Jericho

Herodian Second Palace

The earthquake of 31 BCE destroyed the Hasmonean palace complex, and the political changes that took place after Actium enabled Herod to gain full possession of the winter ...
Judaea / Jericho

Palace of John Hyrcanus I

Erected on the southern margin of the royal estate around 120 BCE, north of Wadi Qelt, the palace has not yet been studied in its entirety, since at a later stage most of it was ...
Judaea / Jericho

Pool Complex of Alexander Janneaus

The ascent to the throne of Alexander Jannaeus in 103 BCE triggered a significant development in the above palace. He constructed another conduit from the "Auja and Na'aran" ...
Judaea / Jericho / Third Palace

Corinthian Peristyle

With porticoes on three sides and measuring 23 x 14.5m, this courtyard, known as area B55, is decorated with columns in the Corinthian order. (Fig. 3) The lower portions of these ...
Judaea / Jericho / Third Palace

Ionic Peristyle

This peristyle courtyard (19.1 x 18.7) lies adjacent to the banquet hall and near Roman baths constructed in opus reticulatum. It is referred to in excavation reports as area B64....
Judaea / Jericho / Third Palace

Sunken Garden

The monumental 'sunken garden' (B6), which measures 37.27 x 113.67m, lies largely unexcavated on the south side of Wadi Qelt, in alignment with the buildings and gardens ...
Judaea / Macchaerus

Machaerus Southern Courtyard

During the architectural survey in 2010, the team excavated a 4 x 2m trench to the west of the storerooms and east of the bath quarter. Working to a depth of 2m, the ...
Judaea / Masada

Masada

The earliest phases of Herodian building are seen in the Western Palace area. These buildings are architecturally similar to the Hasmonean palaces at Jericho and include the ...
Numidia / Thamugadi

Hermaphrodite House (Maison de l'Hermaphrodite)

The large house was laid out around a large peristyle of 22 columns. In the axis of the triclinium was a rectangular pool. The courtyard may have been planted (Plan view, Fig. 1)....
Numidia / Thamugadi

House of Sertius (Maison de Sertius)

This large domus the result of the combining of two houses, is located at the periphery of the center of the city. The domus is laid out around two peristyles. The first, near ...
Numidia / Thamugadi

House of the Planters (Maison aux jardinières)

Located SW of the Decumanus and NE of the forum, the house of the "Jardinières" almost square shaped, was laid out around a peristyle of 10 columns. Along the three porticoes and ...
Numidia / Thamugadi

House of the Warehouse (Maison de l'entrepôt)

This large house was laid out around two peristyles (A,B) arranged along the N S axis. The plan presents a complex layout notably in the southern part of the domus upon which the ...