Pompeii s foro forum is one of the most striking spots in the ancient city.
City of pompeii floor plan.
Slowly the largely agricultural land inside the walls was built over with homes places of production markets and other urban amenities.
This early city had walls and a roughly grid shaped street plan.
This map shows you the earliest settlement of the osci followed by the greek and etruscan expansions and then overlaid with roman influences.
This central hall was the focal point of the entire house and was accessed from the fauces a narrow passageway connecting to the streets or the vestibulum now like its modern day counterpart of a living room the atrium was the semi public area pars urbana that was primarily used for entertaining the.
The house of sallust also known in earlier excavation reports as the house of actaeon is a domus or elite residence in the ancient roman city of pompeii vi 2 4.
At boscoreale stabiae was buried under 4 to 6 m 13 to 20 ft of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of mount vesuvius in ad 79.
The wall of pompeii contains the city expansion so that during the roman period apart from villas outside of the walls pompeii remained contained.
House of ariadne or house of the coloured capitals reg vii 4 31 51 this is one of the oldest houses in pompeii.
These depicted bacchic scenes.
Vesuvius the volcano which catastrophically erupted and buried the city on august 24 th 79 a d.
Of particular interest are the sculptures of the capitals which are now housed in the pompeii museum.
A large square with triumphal arches public buildings the basilica the market the mensa ponderaria weights and measures and temples and buildings dedicated to apollo to jupiter the head of the former statue dating from around 80 bc still sits here to.
The city of pompeii is famous because it was destroyed in 79 ce when a nearby volcano mount vesuvius erupted covering it in at least 19 feet 6 metres of ash and other volcanic debris the city s quick burial preserved it for centuries before its ruins were discovered in the late 16th century.
Reconstruction works in pompeii began immediately however they took a long time to be completed due to the extent of the damage and the seismic swarm that followed.
The city is located roughly 6 miles from mt.
The video starts off with what is known as the atrium section of the roman domus.
As pompeii grew in size and population the city walls were expanded with gates at the ends of major roads.
Also worthy of mention is the lararium and the sundial in the garden.
The subsequent excavation of pompeii and the surrounding areas in the mid 18th century marked.
Pompeii p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ i latin.
Plans of pompeii plan 1.
The oldest parts of the house have been dated to the 4th century bce but the main expansions were built in the 2nd century bce during the roman period.
