Transcript POMPEII and HERCULANEUM - University of Melbourne

POMPEII
A town destroyed by Vesuvius on August 24th/25th AD 79
Peter Mountford
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
An Overview of the Lecture
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My personal experiences and impressions.
Ancient literary sources.
The character of the region and the town.
A brief history of the excavations.
Problems facing the archaeologists.
The exhibition itself.
Daily life in Pompeii.
Bay of Naples, Italy
Cumae
Naples
Baiae
Herculaneum
Vesuvius
Misenum
Pompeii
Ischia
Stabiae
Sorrento
Positano
Capri
Vesuvius and its surrounds
Wall-painting of Vesuvius
Oplontis – Villa of Poppaea
Oplontis – reception room
Herculaneum
Herculaneum - street
Herculaneum – House of the Beautiful
Courtyard
Pompeii
Pompeii
Wall-painting – harbour of Pompeii
• Earliest signs of occupation seem to date from
C7th/6th BC.
• Origins may be Oscan (local Italian people),
Etruscan or Greek with Samnite participation.
• Earliest part of the town in SW corner.
• A flourishing town by late C3rd BC.
• Loyal to Rome during Hannibal’s invasion.
• Fought against Rome in the Social Wars 91-88 BC.
• Besieged by Sulla and forced to surrender.
• Spared from destruction.
• Became a Roman colony – Colonia Cornelia
Veneria Pompeiana.
• Governed by duumvirs and a town council.
• Damaged by an earthquake in AD 62.
• Rebuilding still in progress when the town was
buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
House of the Fugitives
Some of the fugitives
More of the same
Ibid - Casts of dog and wild boar
Victim of the eruption in the
storeroom by the forum
Victim in the macellum
House of M Lucretius Fronto – Wallpainting of Mars and Venus
House of the Ceii
Caecilius
Pompeii
Pompeian street
Large theatre
Small theatre or odeon
Gladiators’ barracks and training
ground
Amphitheatre with Vesuvius in the
background
Amphitheatre
Wall-painting – Riot in the
amphitheatre in AD 59
Palaestra – exercise area
Palaestra and swimming pool
Bar - thermopolium
Temple of Apollo
Apollo
Forum baths
Stucco ceiling in the Forum baths
Brothel
Bakery of Modestus
Wall painting - bakery
Carbonized loaf
Wall-painting - builders
Marble plaque – metal workers
Weights and measures
Writing implements
Silver dinnerware
Lady’s wood and ivory vanity box
Pompeii
Houses of Octavius Quartio/Loreius
Tiburtinus, Venus and Julia Felix
House of Loreius Tiburtinus - terrace
House of Loreius Tiburtinus – outside
dining room - Narcissus
House of Loreius Tiburtinus - garden
House of Loreius Tiburtinus – terrace
and fountain
House of Loreius Tiburtinus
House of Venus – garden peristyle
House of Venus – the painting which
gives it its name
House of Venus
Beware of the dog – House of the
Tragic Poet
House of the Faun
Atrium and impluvium of House of the
Faun with the statue which gives it its
name
The Faun
Alexander mosaic
House of the Vettii
House of the Vettii - Priapus
House of the Vettii - Lararium
House of the Vettii - kitchen
House of the Vettii
House of the Vettii
House of the Vettii
House of the Vettii
House of the Vettii – reception room
House of the Vettii – dining room –
cupids racing chariots
Ibid – cupids working in perfumery
Ibid – cupids working as flower-sellers
House of the Vettii – reception room
House of the Vettii – reception room
House of Vettii – peristyle garden
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Hose of the Vettii – peristyle garden
Herculaneum gate, street of tombs,
Villas of Diomede and Mysteries
Villa of the Mysteries
Room of the Mysteries
Room of the Mysteries
Room of the Mysteries