Gardens of the Roman Empire

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

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Province

Location

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region VIII

Insula

Insula VI

Keywords

porticoes AAT:300004145

Garden Description

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. The columns on the south were salvaged from an earlier building. This was a large area, the intended use not clear. It may have been a garden previously.

Plans

Fig. 20, Plan of Region VIII, Insula VI

Images

Fig.21, 12.31.59 (Stanley Jashemski, Jashemski Archives, University of Maryland)

Places

Excavation Dates

Unspecified

Bibliography

Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (1883), plan between pp. 170 and 171 where this garden is VIII.vii.[6](worldcat)
Jashemski, Gardens, vol. II, p. 219 (worldcat)
Mau, Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (1884), p. 137 plan (worldcat)
Sogliano, Notizie degli scavi di Antichita (1882), p. 281, 324, 359-360 (worldcat)

VIII.6.3. (no. 14 at Pompeii)

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Province

Location

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region VIII

Insula

Insula VI

Garden Description

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 house to the west was in an earlier stage of recovery, to the point where not even the entrance could be determined.

Plans

Fig. 20, Plan of Region VIII, Insula VI

Places

Excavation Dates

Unspecified

Bibliography

Jashemski, Gardens, vol. II, p.219 (worldcat)
Mau, Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, 1884, pp.135-136 plan (worldcat)
Sogliano, Notizie degli scavi di Antichita, 1883, p.51 (worldcat)

VIII.6.4-5. Market Garden

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Province

Location

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region VIII

Insula

Insula VI

Keywords

Garden Description

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 the northwest corner collected water that was diverted from the street. Gardening tools were found in this garden and the remnants of the earlier structure that stood here, an animal painting on the south wall and a simple aedicula shrine in the southwest corner, indicated that this had been a home.

Plans

Fig. 20, Plan of Region VIII, Insula VI

Images

Fig.21, 12.31.59 (Stanley Jashemski, Jashemski Archives, University of Maryland)

Places

Excavation Dates

1883-1884

Bibliography

Boyce, Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii, Memoris of the American Academy in Rome, 1937, p.78, no.374 and pl.33.1 (worldcat)
Jashemski, Gardens, vol. II, pp.219,365 (worldcat)
Mau, Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, 1884, pp.134-135 (worldcat)
Mau, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Romische Abteilung , 1886, pp. 141-143 (called Viii.vii.4) and pl. 7a. 1 (worldcat)
Sogliano, Notizie degli scavi di Antichita, 1883, p.51 (worldcat)
Sogliano, Notizie degli scavi di Antichita, 1884, pp.280,396 (worldcat)

VIII.6.9-10/1. House and Bakery

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Province

Location

Location Description

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Sublocation

Region VIII

Insula

Insula VI

Keywords

Garden Description

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 above, three on the north and three on the south and were connected by a low wall 0.47 m. high, but only the bases survived. The interior area was paved with opus signinum and in the middle there was a rectangle lined with white and gray marble, a yellow marble cross with a red bordered yellow square in the center. This has sustained much damage since it was exposed. At the outside of the paved area there was a gutter with a cistern opening located between the columns on the west side. This area may have contained potted plants. The portico could be entered directly from entrance no. 9 and various rooms opened off of it, the room on the east (b) had the best view into the portico.

Plans

Fig. 20, Plan of Region VIII, Insula VI

Images

Fig.21, 12.31.59 (Stanley Jashemski, Jashemski Archives, University of Maryland)

Places

Excavation Dates

Unspecified

Bibliography

Boyce, Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii, Memoris of the American Academy in Rome, 1937, p.78, no.375 (worldcat)
Jashemski, Gardens, vol. II, p.219 (worldcat)
Mau, Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, 1884, pp.182-183 (location given as VII.vii [9]) (worldcat)