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DOCUMENTATION OF INSULA V 1 |
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Anne-Marie Leander Touati |
Page updated: 2008-03-30 |
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FIELDWORK IN INSULA V 1
The analysis of Insula V 1 is conducted as a systematic investigation proceeding from north to south. In its first phase (2000-2006) it has included about 2/3 of the insula.
The main tasks in the field is to fill the void of documentation lingering with this insula since its excavation. The southernmost part was freed in the 1830s, the northern in the 1870s. The excavations were published very briefly, if at all, according to the standards of the time with focus on the decorated parts of the larger houses. Our work is, thus, to revisit the scene. The houses are cleared, the standing structures and floors are photographed, minutely described and analysed. Plasters applied to the walls in antiquity are classified by means of ocular microscope analysis. Clearance principally implies cleaning of the ancient floors down to their AD 79 levels, but sometimes when such floor are lacking, the investigation is pushed further in new excavations. The results of the documentation are presented on the present page.
Photography: It is our ambition to create an as comprehensive photographical documentation as possible. The overall documentation of the walls is made in many separate prints that subsequently are put together in the computer by a professional photographer. Beside this documentation, there is also an abundant mass of detail photographs. The latter, mostly produced by the archaeologists, mirrors special points of interest for the analysis.
Drawings: New plans and sections through the houses, as well as drawings of the façades towards the streets are made. The whole "insula" is measured by means of a total station and drawn manually in scale 1:20.
Plaster analysis: When in a good state of preservation, several layers of plaster cover the walls. Some are undercoats, other carry the final painted decoration. The representative parts of the houses were normally redecorated and display several coats of plaster, both painted and not. The composition of these plasters varies, but generally remain similar within a same phase of decoration. A plaster stratigraphy may be constituted and used for establishing chronology, thus supplementing the traditional archaeological masonry study. The method was elaborated by Dr. Reinhard Meyer-Graft and taught to the restorers belonging to our team during the first field campaign in 2000.
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Archaeologist Monica Nilsson
Photo: Henrik Boman
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INSULA V 1
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V 1,1.32 Taberna
| V 1,13 Caupona
| V 1,14-16 Bakery
| V 1,17 Taberna
| V 1,18 Casa degli Epigrammi
greci
| V 1,19 Taberna
| V 1,20-21 Taberna
| V 1,22 Taberna
| V 1,23 Casa di Caecilius
Iucundus - North House
| V 1,24 Taberna
| V 1,25 Taberna
| V 1,26 Casa di Caecilius
Iucundus - South House
| V 1,27 Taberna
| V 1,3 House
| V 1,7 Casa del Torello
| | Facade - Via del Vesuvio
| Facade - Via di Nola
| Facade - Vicolo delle
Nozze d’Argento
| Facade - Vicolo di Caecilius
Iucundus
| | Street - Vicolo delle
Nozze d’Argento
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