1. CORE STUDY Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii & Herculaneum HSC ANCIENT HISTORY

3. Location

6. Bay of Naples Mt Vesuvius

13. The Physical Environment

16. Archaeological sources on the physical environment of Campania “Bacchus and Mt Vesuvius” a wall painting from a household shrine in the House of the Centenary

28. Streetscape A . This is a view of one of the minor streets in Pompeii. The buildings on the right are the backs of houses. This street is paved with well-laid lava stones and has raised footpaths on each side edged with cut blocks of stone. The absence of wheel ruts suggests this street was closed to wheeled vehicles. Note the modern surface of the footpaths. Streetscapes of Pompeii & Herculaneum

29. Streetscapes of Pompeii & Herculaneum Streetscape B . This is a view of one of the busier streets of Pompeii showing deep wheel ruts in the lava paving stones. Note the strategically placed stepping-stones, which enabled people to avoid waste water and sewage which ran down the street. Compared to Streetscape A, this image shows many more doorways opening onto the street. The number of each house is clearly displayed.

30. Streetscapes of Pompeii & Herculaneum Nucerian gate, Pompeii. One of the eight gates into the city, the Nucerian Gate is situated in the eastern part of Pompeii, near the amphitheatre. Crowds of people coming into the city for the gladiatorial games would have entered through this gate. Funeral processions leaving the city for the nearby necropolis would also have passed through this gate. This road leads down to a group of more than 40 tombs, which by Roman law, had to be outside the pomerium of the town. Near this gate is an inscription stating that Suedius Clemens, Emperor Vespasian’s envoy to Pompeii, demolished private buildings and tombs, which had been illegally built within the pomerium