Places in Herculaneum:

Insula II (2 gardens)
Insula III (4 gardens)
Insula IV (4 gardens)
Insula Or I (6 gardens)
Insula Or II (2 gardens)
Insula V (8 gardens)
Insula VI (3 gardens)
Insula VII (1 garden)
Sacred Area (1 garden)

Herculaneum

Place Description

An ancient Roman town of Campania destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D.79. Named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

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31 garden articles in Herculaneum have been published/drafted:

533.II.2. A. The earliest excavations of Herculaneum were done with underground tunnels. Several of these crossed this site and were discovered sixty three years later when ...

This house was partially excavated in 1829-1830 and again in 1850. The portico had a floor on the east slightly lower than the sections on the north and south. A pool (a) was ...

538.III.13-15. This multi-family dwelling was excavated in 1927-1929. There was a small paved courtyard (a) 1.97 x 2.97 m. located to provide light and air to the surrounding ...

537.III.11. Casa del Tramezzo di Legno The excavation of this house was begun in 1869-1875, but the excavation of the garden and restoration of the house was completed in the ...

539.III.17. At the rear of this small house there was a courtyard with an impressive brick altar against the rear wall. Maiuri felt this was probably a roofed area which would ...

The small light well of this house had once been occupied by a pool. By the time of the eruption it had been filled with soil and converted to a small garden (a). During this ...

545.IV.21 A. Of all the houses that overlooked the Bay on the south edge of the city, this house excavated in 1929-1932 was the most elegant. The triclinium(b) on the north was ...

544.IV.8-9. This narrow house excavated in 1929-1932 had a small paved courtyard serving as both a light well and an impluvium. This area could have held potted plants. A hunt ...

542.IV.3-4. A. Two separate dwellings were united to form this house, excavated in 1928-1929. The northern house has three courtyards. The first (a) is directly off of the ...

541.IV.1-2 A windowed portico surrounded this garden (a) on the north, south and west. The east side was bordered by a narrow corridor which Maiuri proposed had glass in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

553.V.33 This humble house had a huge garden (a) which was entered from the long fauceson the north. Most likely used to grow produce, Maiuri speculated that the garden may have ...

Appendix II. 110.V.8. The illusion of a gardentrellis was created in this house withno garden by painting the archway under a flight of stairs in the courtyard with climbing ...

551.V.15-16. Two hundred years after the first excavation efforts started at Herculaneum in 1738, this house was excavated and the restoration finished, thereby receiving its ...

554.V.35. Just to the west of the entrance to this house was a small, raised courtyard (a) which supplied light and air to the residence. This area collected rain water from the ...

549.V.5. Visible from the fauces, this little courtyard (a) had an elaborate aedicula shrine which was excavated in 1932-1933. A low double wall with a gutter bordered the ...

550.V.6/7 To the very back of this house, excavated in 1932-1936, there was a small courtyard (a) that served as a garden having a summer triclinium and garden paintings on the ...

548.V.4/3. There was a courtyard (a) in the center of this house which was apparently attached to a textrina. The courtyard was surrounded by a portico with seven supporting ...

552.V.30. A shallow cruciform-shaped impluvium was the central feature in the rectangular atrium of this house excavated in 1933-1934. The atrium gave the impression of a ...

555.VI.1/7/8/10. During 1873-1875 the courtyard (a) of the palaestra was excavated. A section of the northeast portico was not excavated until 1930. The courtyard measured 15.75 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Herculaneum

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Casa D'Argo (DRAFT)

Casadetta del Genio (DRAFT)

Casa A Graticcio (DRAFT)

Casa del Tramezzo di Legno (DRAFT)

Casa dell'Ara Laterizia (DRAFT)

Casa dello Scheletro (DRAFT)

Casa dei Cervi (DRAFT)

Casa del Paprio Dipinto (DRAFT)

Casa dell'Alcova (DRAFT)

Casa dell'Atrio a Mosaico (DRAFT)

Casa della Gemma (Insula or. I.1)

Insula or. I.1

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

Insula or. I.2-3(B)

Insula or. I.2-3(C)

Insula or. I.2-3(D)

Great Palestra (Insula or. II.4)

Insula or. II

Casa con Giardino (DRAFT)

Casa del bel Cortile (DRAFT)

Casa del Bicentenario (DRAFT)

Casa del Gran Portale (DRAFT)

Casa del Mobilio Carbonizzato (DRAFT)

Casa del Mosaico di Nettuno e di Anfitrite (DRAFT)

Casa del Telaio (DRAFT)

Casa dell'Atrio Corontio (DRAFT)

Forum Baths (DRAFT)

Casa del Salone Nero (VI.13/11)

Casa del Colonnato Tuscanico (VI.17/26)

Casa di Galba (VII.2)

Sacred Area Outside the South Walls