Dr Sophie Hay

Lovely!! 🍁🍂

Many have suggested this. Personally, I’m against this as it encourages people to believe you can take material away from the site. I think the pumice is recycled by the building trade.

Dining scene

Man with arm on his head

Reclining is definitely a common position at mealtimes - the ‘triclinium’ or dining room is so-named for its three couches on which you’d recline and dine. And this skeleton is from such a room. As for the arm… I saw that relaxed pose in a fresco from Stabiae and not sure what it infers.

Apologies, 3rd/4th century AD mosaic.

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

At ground level like this - trowels. At higher levels they remove it with shovels.

Oh thank you! For some reason I couldn’t think of the word!

It is very much loved, especially by me. Fear not.

View from up high looking down into Pompeii with the via Nocera gently winding its way up the slope under the arch of the Nocera Gate. Beyond Vesuvius looms with its peak in shadow and its foothills are speckled greens and browns.

I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.

Pompeii, a domus with a tower? A hypothesis based on “digital archaeology” developed by the Park and the Humboldt University of Berlin: the models are thought to be the villas of the super-rich     - ... The article providing an in-depth analysis was published today in the e-journal of the Pompeii excavations. They didn’t reach the levels of medieval cities such as Bologna or San Giminiano, … keep it ...

Towering research in #Pompeii.
Having been continually baffled by the grandeur of the staircase and confused by the high second window, this architectural hypothesis makes a lot of sense. I love the idea of a Pompeian tower!
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Ahhh yes, that passage I know about.

We weren’t stopping as we were on our way somewhere. But a tunnel sounds super cool…

A sepia photo of the 20m high 6m wide Roman arch straddling the basalt paved via Domitiana

Was too busy admiring the bricks & marvelling at the fact cars can drive over the Roman road paving beneath the Arco Felice (Bacoli) this evening to take a photo of the Roman arch but it seems forgivable all things considered.

Here’s an 1896 photo instead (fotografia.cultura.gov.it/iccd/item/MP...)

Oh hooray!! Welcome back! In fact we spotted the gleaming mirror-like surface of the sea today from the new restaurant on site.

There are a variety of reasons: it is expensive and in this case the frescoes & mosaics have already been removed so there’s not much left to protect. Reconstructed roofs require existing walls to be built on which isn’t always good for the archaeological remains.

No. Sadly not.

Watercolour showing different tile elements both flat (tegulae) and curved (imbrices) and antifixes and water spouts needed for a Roman roof

Plan of the House of the Faun in watercolour showing the reconstructed rooflines.

Reconstruction of a roofline in plan and section

Full image of the three elements as one watercolour illustration

Surprisingly yet pleasingly complex - the tile elements required to reconstruct a Roman roof over the House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Beautiful watercolour, pencil, and ink illustrations by Pasquale Maria Veneri dating to 1843 on display in the National Archaeological Museum
In Naples.

Many!!

I don’t know when this was but I’ve never seen it on site since the 1990s. They use gravel for paths.

They are set into a lime mortar which is wonderfully strong.

Always white. Simple. But still skilfully laid.

Oh my word it’s like a thick broth of tesserae soup! Wow! I’ve never seen anything like this in Pompeii or elsewhere. It looks like a foot massaging haven. So interesting! Thanks.

Most of the image is of a white mosaic and the top part is small pumice stones

That magical moment when the pumice is gently cleared away revealing, for the first time in nearly 2000 years, a white mosaic.
#MosaicMonday #Pompeii

And given we know some buildings as they still stand today it helps potentially unravel the accuracy of other buildings on the map that we don’t have a lot of info for.

It’s certainly pretty darn great for the historical window that it represents and gives us so much information about Rome in that period. But Rome continued to evolve so it’s of limited use. I adore it. The fact that a Roman chiselled the seating in the Colosseum and we see it today amazes me.

A printed map of the Colosseum with incomplete marble fragments of the monument overlying it

A printed map of the area around the Theatre of Pompey with incomplete marble fragments of the monument overlying it. Nolli’s map forms the floor surface around it.

A printed map of Nolli’s Rome with incomplete marble fragments with a plan of a monument, set into it

A printed map of the Circus Maximus with incomplete fragments of the monument overlying it.

The fragments of the Forma Urbis – the marble map of Rome made towards the end of Emperor Severus’ reign – set into Nolli’s beautiful 18th century map of the city is breathtaking.
Fun to spot existing monuments but wondrous to see the now missing buildings.
www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/content/il-m...

Thank you! I had a wonderful day!

Pompei: le nuove verità: Ep. 4 - La casa dei tesori Video | Mediaset Infinity Gli archeologi completano lo scavo più grande dell'ultima generazione, dove trovano oro e lusso in una delle case più ricche di Pompei.

ITALIA!
In onda stasera un nuovo e finale episodio di ‘Pompei le Nuove Verità: La Casa dei Tesori’.

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È una meravigliosa lettera d'amore a Pompei e ai suoi antichi abitanti, celebrata attraverso le ultime scoperte degli scavi a Regio IX.

Bit too much of a risk!

It was flagged by Bluesky immediately because of Venus… ridiculous.