Seasons

• AIAC_2461 - Insula IX.3 di Marco Lucrezio - 2005
  In 2005, the project’s work concentrated on the northern parts of the Casa di Marco Lucrezio. Excavations were continued in the garden and several waste pits containing mostly wall painting fragments and some pottery were discovered. The Fourth Style painting fragments found at the bottom of one of the pits next to the fountain complex date the deposit to the last phase of Pompeii and confirm the late date of the visible garden arrangement. The trench by the pappamonte wall in the southern part of the garden was extended, but only two new later waste pits were discovered. Buildings archaeological work was extended to the house IX 3,24 where excavations were carried out in two places in the atrium and in the area between the garden and house 24. A sequence of three plaster floors was discovered in the northern atrium and the same sequence was also found in the southern trench. The fill layers between the floors raised the general ground level ca. 50 cm possibly causing also changes in the walls, which had to be raised as well. The finds from the contents of a large waste pit – or possibly a filled cistern – in the middle of the atrium under the lowermost floor dates the beginning of the sequence only roughly to the 1st century BC. Some 3rd–4th century BC pottery was discovered in the southern trench just above a sequence of layers of volcanic ash.
• AIAC_2461 - Insula IX.3 di Marco Lucrezio - 2006
  The work in the Casa di Marco Lucrezio continued with check-ups of the archaeological data as well as with documentation of wall paintings. Buildings archaeology was conducted in house IX 3,25 west of the large domus and excavations were carried out in two places in the narrow street north of the city block. The eastern trench was located near the junction of houses 24 and 25 and the western one close to the northwestern corner of the city block. The eastern trench revealed several consecutive street layers particularly in the sidewalk as well as a large and late waste pit extending partially under the Central Bath north of the street. The lowermost deposits of the sidewalk revealed a foundation trench of the travertine ashlar façade of house 24 and the finds date the building to the late 3rd– early 2nd century BC. The western trench revealed several waster pits topped by several street layers. In addition, a masonry reservoir, possibly a water cistern or a cess pit, was discovered continuing under the sidewalk. House IX 3,25 is a small row house with travertine framework walls in the façade and eastern parts and mostly trachyte rubble work walls otherwise. Cleaning of the floor surfaces revealed an earlier plaster floor ca. 20 cm below the last phase floor as well as a completely demolished room in the western part of the house between the current atrium and possible garden area. A small trench was placed in the southwestern corner of the atrium and this revealed a clay and stone wall decorated with painted wall plaster, but almost completely razed. This was the northwestern corner of the demolished room. The trench revealed also that the western wall of the atrium was built over a water channel or a gutter indicating changes in the room arrangements between houses 25 and IX 3,1–2. In other parts of the house, a small toilet was found in the southeastern corner and it was probably the only roofed area in the southern part of the house. A waste pit was discovered north of the toilet, but this was not excavated.
• AIAC_2461 - Insula IX.3 di Marco Lucrezio - 2009
  After a two-year break, field work was continued in city block IX 3. 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. The work concentrated on House IX 3,1–2 in the northwestern corner of the city block. The house features three building phases: the oldest ones found only in the northeastern corner in travertine framework and major part of the walls consisting of trachyte/travertine rubble work. Travertine ashlars have been used as door posts and piers in these areas. The last walls in the peristyle area and in the west façade consist of rubble work of reused materials as well as brick and block work in piers and pilasters. The house features First and Third Style paintings as well as Second Style mosaic floors. In the last phases of Pompeii, the front of the house was turned into a workshop by adding heated vats into the atrium. In addition, one of the rooms in the western front range was turned into a shop. The new work was able to confirm and clarify many features seen and poorly reported in earlier research particularly in the peristyle area the service quarters in the southeastern part of the house. The most interesting new observations concern changes in the floor levels, which were noted in the northeastern and southeastern parts of the house. In the north, the floor level had been lowered for ca. 80 cm and in the south it had been raised for slightly more. The reason for the lowering was probably to make an easier entrance to a probable dining room with a biclinium created maybe during the 1st century BC from the peristyle area. The reason for the higher floor was the need to create two reservoirs under the floor: one to collect rainwater from the peristyle area and the other to service the toilet.
• AIAC_2461 - Insula IX.3 di Marco Lucrezio - 2010
  Nel 2010 le indagini sono proseguite nella parte occidentale dell’_insula_, nelle case IX 3.3 e IX 3.13. Come nel 2009, il lavoro si è concentrato sull’analisi degli edifici e la documentazione delle strutture visibili non è stato condotto nessuno scavo a parte la pulizia dell’attuale piano di calpestio. Inoltre è proseguita la documentazione delle pitture e il lavoro di analisi dei frammenti di pittura muraria provenienti dagli scavi del 2003-2006. Priorità degli studi sulle case sono le _tabernae_ o la combinazione delle _tabernae_, quartieri di produzione e di vita. La sola casa con una funzione chiara è il panificio IX 3,10-12 nell’angolo sud-occidentale dell’insula. In base alle analisi della tecnica costruttiva (tegole, piccoli blocchi di pietra) e materiali (travertino con gran misto di pietre e tegole), la maggior parte dell’insula occidentale è stata ricostruita relativamente tardi rispetto alla storia di Pompei. Alcuni dei muri sono stati ricostruiti, usando la linea delle vecchie mura come fondazioni. La pulizia del piano pavimentale ha rivelato alcune istallazioni idriche precedentemente sconosciute, come le cisterne nelle case IX 3,3 and IX 3,7. Inoltre è stato scoperto che alcune delle cisterne note in precedenza, come quelle nelle case IX 3,8 and IX 3,13 erano andate fuori uso e riempite con macerie della casa e terreno. Finora non è stata trovata nell’_insula_ nessuna cisterna funzionante come impluvio. Le funzioni della case in genere non potrebbero essere chiarificate base al solo lavoro sul campo, ma in due casi (case IX 3,8 e IX 3,13) la vecchia interpretazione della produzione commerciale del cibo viene rafforzata.
• AIAC_2461 - Insula IX.3 di Marco Lucrezio - 2011
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