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Excavation history

Excavation history. Titus. Suetonius TITus 8.3.

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Excavation history

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  1. Excavation history

  2. Titus

  3. Suetonius TITus 8.3 • .. Whether by offers of sympathy or by giving all the financial help he could. He selected by lot some senators of consular rank to regenerate Campania, and he allocated the property of those who had died in the eruption and who had no surviving heirs to the renewal of the afflicted towns • Dio Cassius. 66.24. 1, 3-4. Titus himself took no money from individuals or cities or kings although many kept giving and promising him large sums, but restored all the damage from his resources.

  4. Salvage? • CIL IV 2311 ( House of N. PopidiusPriscus) VII, ii, 20) Scratched on right wall of entranceway. House tunneled through ( Latin in Greek letters) Materials stripped from Forum

  5. Long Sleep

  6. 120 CE

  7. 4th century C.E.

  8. Looting/Exploration • Late antique lamps and pottery dating from the 6th to the 16th c. CE found in Suburban Baths, • House of Julia Felix • House of Fabius Rufus

  9. Letters of Pliny

  10. 12th c. CE copy of 4th c .CE Peutinger Table • Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae

  11. La Civita • 1500- 1700 CE Ancient ruins found, but reburied. Inscription ( POMPEI)(Pompey) Geographer states that Pompeii lies underneath La Civita

  12. Periods of Excavation • Treasure Hunting 1709- 1859 • Scientific 1860- 1978 • Modern 1979- present

  13. Treasure Hunting--Prince d’Elbeuf • 1709 well deepening

  14. Charles VII King of Naples • 1738 ( New Villa)

  15. Rocco Alcubierre’s Theater Tunnels

  16. HerculaneumMarcus Nonius Balbus

  17. Basilica

  18. Theseus( BaSilica)

  19. 1740 Account of “Excavations” • “ There might certainly be collected great light from this reservoir of antiquities, if a man of learning had the inspection of it; if he directed the working and would make a journal of the discoveries. But I believe there is no judicious choice of directors..” • Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford

  20. 1748- 50 “ La Civita” 1750 Herculaneum 1755 Return to Pompeii (1763 –inscription identifies site)

  21. Karl Weber • Swiss Military Engineer, Assistant to Alcubierre • First systematic excavation ( respected lines of streets, detailed plans, weekly summaries of finds, entering houses through doors

  22. Villa of the Papyri 1752-1765

  23. 4 levels terraced to the sea

  24. Dancers

  25. Seneca?

  26. Epicurus / Scipio Africanus (?)

  27. Runners

  28. Resting Hermes

  29. Sleeping Faun

  30. Drunken satyr

  31. Pan

  32. Athena

  33. Muse ?

  34. Total Sculpture ( 90 pieces) • 13 large bronze • 7 large marble • 18 medium and small bronzes • 32 bronze busts 15 marble busts

  35. 1,787 volumes

  36. Fr. Antonio Piaggi ( 1756) • 3 scrolls in 4 years

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