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Excavation

  • Pompei, Insula I.17
  • Pompei
  • Pompeii
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Pompei

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Credits

  • 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)

  • The excavation strategy, already used successfully in Insula IX 8 (for the “Pompei. Insula del Centenario (IX 8)” and “Pompei (1998-) projects, is based on the adoption of an interdisciplinary and integrated approach: a model involving the revision of published work and research in archives, storerooms and libraries (the base of all further action), followed by new campaigns of recording, where necessary, the archaeology of the standing remains and the excavation of ad hoc trenches in order to check working hypotheses.

    Insula I 17 was chosen as a case study both for its key position for the understanding of the development of the city’s southern sector. Also of interest are its structural units for the study of residential architecture as they do not not conform to the atrium model (or atrium and peristyle).
    Only partially excavated in 1958-1959, Insula I 17 remains unpublished (with the exception of three record cards, one for each uncovered building published by B. Amodio), despite research appearing on its most famous units: the House of the Arches, the House of the Lares, the green areas, the IV style garden paintings and the peristyles.

    Having obtained a three-year excavation permit (2019-2021), Bologna University dedicated the 2019 campaign to the House of the Arches (I 17, 4).
    The standing remains were surveyed and a trench opened in room 1, with pseudo-peristyle, in order to clarify the situation left by the old excavations. In fact, the area had also been investigated, after the work in the late 1950s, by W.F. Jashemski, but how and when is not clear from the published data.

    The trial trench revealed a large cavity, with a fill of volcanic materials (ash and lapilli) and abundant building materials (tiles and bricks). This may be interpreted as a trace of the main body of the cistern, mentioned by W.F. Jashemski, but of which there is no surviving documentation. In fact, it seems likely that the cavity and its fill were the result of the collapse of the cistern’s vault, caused by the weight of the volcanic deposits and collapsed structures in 78 A.D.

  • Antonella Coralini-Università di Bologna 

Director

  • Antonella Coralini-Università di Bologna

Team

  • Angela Bosco
  • Irene Loschi
  • Nicola Santopuoli- Università di Bologna

Research Body

  • Università di Bologna

Funding Body

  • Università di Bologna

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