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V.1.8 Pompeii. Looking towards entrance doorway on north side of Via dell’ Abbondanza.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance and vestibule A.
VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021.Looking north from vestibule A.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. March 2014. Gymnasium C, looking north.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking north-east along east portico B from north end of Vestibule A.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. 1945. East side of portico B looking north from entrance. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.1.8 Pompeii. August 27, 1904. Looking towards north-east side of gymnasium. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.1.8,
Pompeii. 4th December 1971. Looking north along east side of gymnasium of
Baths.
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
This showed the precious testimony of the type of decoration above the pitched sloping roof that sheltered the east portico of the palaestra B.
This was "almost completely lost" in
1854, and today has totally disappeared. Seen, at the top was a painted hunt
scene.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 458.
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VII.I.8 Pompeii. February
1988. Looking north along east side of Portico B.
Photo by Joachime
Méric courtesy of Jean-Jacques Méric.
VII.1.8 Pompeii. August 1976. Looking towards north-east corner of
Portico B.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides
collection.
Looking towards the entrance doorway and south-east corner of portico B. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1154.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2022. Looking north-west across the gymnasium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2014. East portico B, from north end of Vestibule A.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2014. East portico B, pilaster at south end of east wall.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2022.
Looking north in corridor on east side of Portico B. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Looking north in corridor on east side of Portico B. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. April 2013. Corridor on east side of portico B, looking north. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Corridor on east side of portico B, looking north. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.1.8 Pompeii. Watercolour by Giuseppe Abbate, showing a stretch of the east wall of the east portico.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 459.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2014. East portico B, looking towards wall decoration and pillars on portico.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2014. East portico B, looking north-west towards columns.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. October 2022.
East side of portico B looking south. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
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Marble sundial with Oscan inscription, found 23rd September 1854. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
An inscription in Oscan reveals that the quaestor Maras
Atinius commissioned the construction of the sundial:
“Maras
Artinius (son of) Maras, quaestor, with the money from the fines, by resolution
of the assembly, had (this) made”.
Solar clocks were one of the many contributions of the
Greeks to the Roman world, and this refined Pompeian specimen bears witness to the
Hellenistic taste to which the Terme Stabiane (a modern name referring to their
position along the Via Stabiana) conformed. The Terme Stabiane replaced an
earlier, much less sophisticated facility in the 2nd century BC.
Discovered at Pompeii on 23 September 1854 in the Stabian
Baths, it was used to regulate the turns for entering the complex.
The dial is a portion of a right circular cone, bounded on
the upper side by a hyperbola.
The clock has three circular day curves that are parallel to
each other.
The day curves are the lines cast by the shadow of the
gnomon over the course of a whole day. The arcs of the solstices and equinoxes
are each divided into 12 equal parts to plot the eleven hour lines, obtained by
joining the corresponding partitions of the three day curves.
The hours marked are “unequal hours”.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 2541.
“Maras Artinius (son of) Maras, quaestor, with the
money from the fines, by resolution of the assembly, had (this) made”.
Oscan inscription [Vetter 12] stating that Maras Atinius
commissioned the construction of the sundial. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Oscan inscription
stating that Maras Atinius commissioned the construction of the sundial. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Description card of marble sundial in Naples Archaeological
Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe
Ciaramella.
Information card from display in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 2541. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 180.
See Real
Museo Borbonico, vol XVI, following p. 168 – Relazione
degli Scavi di Pompeii, marble sundial found (p.14) also refers to
(p.2).
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Looking across gymnasium C towards south side of portico B and west side of baths, from north-east corner.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards
north-east corner of portico B.
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VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. North-east corner of portico B. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
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