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Excavation

  • Insula IX.3 di Marco Lucrezio
  • Pompei
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Pompei

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • In 2011 work was continued in the south central part of the insula, in houses IX 3,14 through to house IX 3,18. As in previous years, the work concentrated on buildings archaeological analysis and documentation of the visible structures and no excavation was carried out apart from cleaning floor levels of modern soil layers. In addition to this, documentation of wall paintings and analysis of wall painting fragments from the 2003–2006 excavations were continued.

    Majority of the houses (14, 16, 17, 18) studied are shops or combinations of shops, workshops and living quarters. House IX 3,15 is a medium-sized dwelling with an atrium and a peristyle. Clearance of the floors revealed plaster floors, drainage channels under floors as well as toilet cesspits. A seemingly complete millstone ( catillus ) was found buried under the floor in one of the rooms in House 14, but its function/meaning remains unknown. New cisterns were found in the peristyle of House 15 and in the shop of House 16 – the two cistern heads are parts of the same system. No fireplace reported earlier could be found in the latter room. Instead, a roof tile connected to a small channel was found in the central part of the room. In House 18, a water conduit consisting of lead pipes and a small distribution box was found. This leads into House 19–20 where the water was used in the activities of the bakery.

    The overall impression of the area examined compared to the southwestern part of the insula, is that the central part is older featuring, e.g., Second Style paintings and overlapping wall plasters. It is likely that the southwestern corner was heavily rebuilt at a late stage, possibly in connection to the AD 62 earthquake.

  • Eeva-Maria Viitanen - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum 

Director

  • Antero Tammisto - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum

Team

  • Anna Ylitalo
  • Juha Heikkinen
  • Kirsi Murros - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Laura Nissinen - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Margherita Carucci
  • Samuli Simelius - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Sanna Aho - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Ilkka Kuivalainen - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Ria P. Berg - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Ville Hakanen - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Tiina Tuukkanen - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum
  • Maija Holappa - University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum

Research Body

  • University of Helsinki/Institutum Classicum

Funding Body

  • Emil Aaltonen Foundation

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