Casa con Giardino

Province

• Italia
• Italia Pleiades: 1052

Location

• Herculaneum \
• Herculaneum Pleiades: 432873

Location 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.

Insula

V

House

33

Garden

Casa con Giardino

Keywords

• faucesAAT:300004298

Garden Description

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 belonged to the larger houses to the west at one time.

Plans

Places

• Herculaneum Pleiades: 432873
• Herculaneum (deserted settlement) TGN: 7031897

Dates

unspecified

Excavation Date

unspecified

Bibliography

• Maiuri,Herculaneum, p. 52
• Maiuri, Ercolano, p. 431 and fig. 374 (plan) on p. 431

Explore the places containing this garden:

• Insula V
• Herculaneum
• Italia