Photo Gallery

Photos 3.1 through 3.5

These photos depict a few things of interest pertaining to the Vesuvian towns. Photos 3.1 and 3.2 show how Herculaneum has been released from its volcanic encasement through modern excavations. Photo 3.3 shows how archaeologists have removed some of the artwork from the walls of Vesuvian residences and places of business (in this case, the House of Lucretius in Pompeii), in order to be housed elsewhere (and often displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples). A first-century dining room is shown in photo 3.4, with a triclinium (a “three-bed” arrangement) around the central area in which food would have been brought to the people dining by slaves, and with a cascading water feature flowing down the back wall. Water was transported to many residences of the town’s wealthier residents by water pipes, as in photo 3.5.

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