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Excavation

  • Pompei, Republican Baths (VIII 5, 36)
  • Pompeii
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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 March and April 2019, a field season of the project “Bathing Culture and the Development of Urban Space: Case Study Pompeii”, was carried out in the Republican Baths (VIII 5, 36) at Pompeii. The season was focused on studying the finds and cleaning some areas to clarify specific questions. The ceramics team completed the study of the material from the Republican Baths.

    Cleaning served to clarify two major questions: first, characteristics and function of certain water
    management features, which Thomas Heide investigates for his dissertation at the Freie Universität
    Berlin. Cleaning included: a double drainage hole in the southwestern corner of the men’s tepidarium; a large, deep settling basin in the southeastern corner of the men’s apodyterium; and the part of the baths’ drainage channel that is located in taberna 35 of the Casa della Calce (VIII, 5, 28).

    Second, the design and development of the southwestern corner of the baths, which Maiuri had excavated but barely mentioned in his report from 1950, were investigated. The chronology of the southwestern room of the baths (room 34, numbering system of project) could be clarified, correlating well with the development of the entire lot, as established in previous seasons: 1) service corridor with entrance from the street for the baths (c. 150-30/20 BC); 2) room decorated with Second Style wall paintings, accessible only from the new garden peristyle of the Casa della Calce (30/20 BC); 3) installation of a latrine along the south wall of the room, when the garden peristyle was remodeled and provided with more rooms (sometime between 30/20 BC and AD 62); 4)room used as a dump site for debris after AD 62. In the room to the north of this room (room 26, numbering system of project) a limekiln, which Maiuri had excavated but not identified and described, was rediscovered. This limekiln was installed for one of the remodeling phases in the early Imperial period, but destroyed already before the eruption of Vesuvius and filled with debris.

Director

  • Monika Trümper- Freie Universität Berlin

Team

  • Alessandra Pegurri- Rome
  • Annika Kirscheneder- Berlin
  • Antonio Ferrandes- Rome
  • Jens-Arne Dickmann- Freiburg
  • Kristina Bolz- Berlin
  • Kristina Zielke- Berlin
  • Thomas Heide- Berlin
  • Viviana Cardarelli- Rome
  • Jennifer Hagen- Berlin
  • Domenico Esposito- Freie Universität Berlin

Research Body

  • Institut für Klassische Archäologie - Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstrasse 23-25, D-14195 Berlin, Deutschland

Funding Body

  • Freie Universität Berlin

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