Room a

Description

A. Karivieri & R. Forsell

Room a has a shopfront doorway towards Via del Vesuvio. The threshold shows that it was closed with shutters and a door. There are some remains of wall plaster on the lower parts of the walls. The room had a cocciopesto floor.

In the southeastern corner, below a rectangular masonry structure, probably one course of a collapsed pillar, a pozzo was located. The pozzo was filled with amphora fragments and on top was a broken amphora found upside down.

Room a measures 3.08 by 4.02 m.

W. of the door opening towards Via del Vesuvio 2.55 m.

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