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Edifici pubblici a Pompei.

Nota:

Alcuni edifici, nel corso del tempo, sono stati denominati in diversi modi e quindi potrebbere comparire nell’elenco più volte.

I link di questa pagina rimandano a degli edifici che si trovano in varie regiones di Pompei.

Per ritornare a questa pagina sarà sufficiente cliccare sul pulsante “Indietro” del browser o sul pulsante “Public Buildings” (Edifici Pubblici).

La destinazione pubblica di tutti gli edifici elencati è incerta.

 

Edifici pubblici

 

Aerarium VII.7.27

Anfiteatro   II.6

Archivi (Sala degli)   VIII.2.8

Basilica   VIII.1.1

Carcere  VII.7.27

Caserma dei Gladiatori o Quadriportico del Teatro   VIII.7.16

Castellum Aquae   a Porta Vesuvio

Comitium o Sala delle Elezioni   VIII.3.1   Ingresso dal Foro   VIII.3.32   Ingresso dal Foro   VIII.3.33

Edifici della Pubblica Amministrazione - Sala degli Edili   VIII.2.6  

Edifici della Pubblica Amministrazione - Passaggio e le scale al piano superiore   VIII.2.7  

Edifici della Pubblica Amministrazione - Sala del Tabularium od archivio   VIII.2.8  

Edifici della Pubblica Amministrazione - Passaggio e le scale al piano superiore   VIII.2.9  

Edifici della Pubblica Amministrazione - Sala dei Magistrati   VIII.2.10

Sala delle Elezioni   VIII.3.1

Edificio di Eumachia   VII.9.1   scale posteriori   VII.9.67   Bottega o stanza   VII.9.68

Foro Civile   VII.8

Foro Civile Tempio di Giove   VII.8.1

Foro Olitorio   VII.7.29

Foro Triangolare   VIII.7.30  

Foro Triangolare - Altare e Tomba   VIII.7.34

Foro Triangolare - Schola con orologio solare   VIII.7.33  

Foro Triangolare - Teatro Grande - Ingressi   VIII.7.21

Foro Triangolare - Tempio Dorico   VIII.7.31  

Foro Triangolare - Thólos con pozzo profondo   VIII.7.32  

Forum Holitorium   VII.7.29

Forum Venale   VII.7.29

Caserma dei Gladiatori   VIII.7.16

Granai del Foro   VII.7.29

Granai pubblici   VII.7.29

Holitorium (Forum) VII.7.29

Horrea   VII.7.29

Macellum   VII.9.7   VII.9.8

Magistrati (Sala dei)   VIII.2.10

Mensa Ponderaria   VII.7.31

Mercato (granaio)   VII.7.29

Odeon   VIII.7.17   VIII.7.18   VIII.7.19

Officina libraria of Acilius Cedrus (Associazione di scribi pubblici)   I.2.24

Olitorium (mercato granaio)   VII.7.29

Palestra   II.7

Palestra Sannitica   VIII.7.29

Poecile   VII.7.29

Prigione  VII.7.27

Quadriportico dei Teatri   VIII.7.16

Sala degli Archivi   VIII.2.8

Sala delle Elezioni   VIII.3.1

Sala dei Magistrati   VIII.2.10

Sala del Tabularium   VIII.2.8

Scribi pubblici (Officina libraria of Acilius Cedrus)   I.2.24

Scuola di L. Cornelius Amandus e L. Cornelius Proculus   VII.12.14

Scuola philosophica epicurea   IX.8.2

Scuola di Verna   VIII.3.1

Scuola nel Forum   VII.7.29

Quadriportico del Teatro   VIII.7.16

Teatro Grande - Ingresso / passaggio graffito  VIII.7.20

Teatro Grande - Ingressi ai livelli superiori - tra cui ingressi non numerati dal Foro Triangolare   VIII.7.21

Teatro Piccolo od Odeon   VIII.7.17   VIII.7.18   VIII.7.19

 

Altari e sacrari nelle strade di Pompei

Pianta interattiva degli altari e sacrari e loro elenco   Altari

 

Archi Monumentali

Elenco   Archi

 

Fontane pubbliche

Pianta delle fontane ed elenco    Fontane

 

Latrine pubbliche

Latrina pubblica sotto le scale   VII.2.47

Latrina pubblica nel Foro   VII.7.28

Latrina pubblica?   VII.1.23

Latrina pubblica o cella meretricia?   VII.2.28

Latrina pubblica nel lato sud della Palestra   II.7.11

 

Porte

Pianta delle porte ed elenco   Porte

 

Strade

Mappa interattiva delle strade di Pompei ed elenco dei nomi delle strade.   Strade

 

Templi a Pompei e Santuario extraurbano

Lares Compitales   VIII.4.24

Santuario dei Lari Pubblici   VII.9.3

Tempio di Apollo   VII.7.32

Tempio della Triade Capitolina   VIII.7.25

Tempio Dorico   VIII.7.31

Tempio di Ercole e Minerva   VIII.7.31

Tempio di Esculapio e Igea   VIII.7.25

Tempio del Foro Triangolare   VIII.7.31

Tempio della Fortuna Augusta   VII.4.1

Tempio del Genio di Augusto   VII.9.2

Tempio di Giove   VII.8.1

Tempio di Giove Meilichio   VIII.7.25

Tempio Greco   VIII.7.31

Tempio di Iside   VIII.7.28

Tempio di Iuppiter   VII.8.1

Tempio di Iuppiter, Iuno e Minerva   VIII.7.25

Tempio dei Lari Cittadini   VII.9.3

Tempio di Minerva e Ercole   VIII.7.31

Tempio di Nettuno   VIII.7.31

Tempio di Venere   VIII.1.3

Tempio di Vespasiano   VII.9.2

Santuario extraurbano - fuori le mura di Pompei

Località Case Bottaro, Tempio di Nettuno.

Santuario di Poseidone

Case Bottaro

 

Il santuario extraurbano del Fondo Iozzino.

Santuario di Zeus Meilichios, Demeter o Ceres, Hecate-Artemis.

Fondo Iozzino

 

Il tempio dionisiaco in località Sant’Abbondio di Pompei.

Santuario di Dionysus-Liber.

Sant'Abbondio

 

Santuario adiacente al muro ovest di Pompei dedicato a una divinità femminile (Minerva Italica?)

Adiacente Fabius Rufus

 

Terme.

Terme Centrali   IX.4.5   IX.4.10   IX.4.13   IX.4.14   IX.4.15   IX.4.16   IX.4.18

Terme del Foro   Pianta   VII.5.2   VII.5.7   VII.5.8   VII.5.10   VII.5.12   VII.6.17   VII.6.18

Terme Repubblicane   VIII.5.36

Terme del Sarno   VIII.2.17   VIII.2.18   VIII.2.19   VIII.2.20   VIII.2.21

Terme Stabiane   VII.1.8

Terme Suburbane   VII.16.a

Complesso di bagni di Giulia Felice   II.4.6   (Pubblico o non pubblico?)

 

Tombe esterne alle porte della città

Pianta interattiva delle tombe di Pompei e loro elenco    Tombe

 

Torri

Pianta interattiva delle torri e loro elenco   Torri

 

Pompeii Public Buildings.

Note:

Some buildings have had several names attributed to them and thus will appear in the list several times.

The links on this page group together buildings which are found in separate parts of Pompeii.

You should use the back button on your browser or the “Public buildings” button to get back to this page.

Whether all these building were in public use is uncertain.

 

Public Buildings

Administrative Buildings - Office of the Aediles   VIII.2.6  

Administrative Buildings - Passageway and stairs to upper floor  VIII.2.7  

Administrative Buildings - Sala del Tabularium or archive   VIII.2.8  

Administrative Buildings - Passageway and stairs to upper floor  VIII.2.9

Administrative Buildings - Magistrates building   VIII.2.10

Aerarium VII.7.27

Amphitheatre   II.6

Archives   VIII.2.8

Basilica   VIII.1.1

Castellum Aquae or Water Tower   at Vesuvian Gate

Comitium   Sala delle Elezioni   VIII.3.1   Entrances from Forum   VIII.3.32   VIII.3.33

Elections Hall   VIII.3.1

Eumachia Building   VII.9.1   Rear steps   VII.9.67   Shop-room   VII.9.68

Forum   VII.8

Forum grain market and store (and modern storage for finds)  VII.7.29

Forum Holitorium   VII.7.29

Forum Olitorium   VII.7.29

Forum Venale   VII.7.29

Gladiators Barracks   VIII.7.16

Granary warehouse and market in Forum   VII.7.29

Hall of the Archives   VIII.2.8

Hall of the Elections   VIII.3.1

Hall of the Magistrates   VIII.2.10

Hall of the Registry   VIII.2.8

Horrea   VII.7.29

Large Theatre Entrance / Graffito passage   VIII.7.20  

Large Theatre Entrances to upper levels and unnumbered entrances from the Triangular Forum   VIII.7.21

Little Theatre or Odeon   VIII.7.17   VIII.7.18   VIII.7.19

Macellum   VII.9.7   VII.9.8

Magistrates building   VIII.2.10

Odeon   VIII.7.17   VIII.7.18   VIII.7.19

Officina libraria of Acilius Cedrus (Association of public scribes)   I.2.24

Palaestra   II.7

Poecile   VII.7.29

Prison VII.7.27

Public Granary  VII.7.29

Public scribes (Officina libraria of Acilius Cedrus)   I.2.24

Quadriporticus of the Gladiators   VIII.7.16

Registry (Hall of the)   VIII.2.8

Sala dei Magistrati   VIII.2.10

Sala delle Elezioni   VIII.3.1

Sala del Tabularium or archive   VIII.2.8

Samnite Palaestra   VIII.7.29

School in the Forum   VII.7.29

School of L. Cornelius Amandus and L. Cornelius Proculus   VII.12.14

School of Epicurian Philosophy   IX.8.2

School of Verna   VIII.3.1

Treasury VII.7.27

Triangular Forum   VIII.7.30  

Triangular Forum Altars and Tomb   VIII.7.34

Triangular Forum Doric Temple   VIII.7.31  

Triangular Forum Large Theatre Entrances   VIII.7.21

Triangular Forum Schola with sundial   VIII.7.33  

Triangular Forum Tholos with deep well   VIII.7.32  

Venale (Forum) VII.7.29

Water Tower or Castellum Aquae   at Vesuvian Gate

Weights and measures bench.   VII.7.31

 

Altars and shrines in the streets of Pompeii

Altars plan (interactive) and list   Altars

 

Arches

Arches list (interactive)   Arches

 

Baths in Pompeii.

Central Baths   IX.4.5   IX.4.10   IX.4.13   IX.4.14   IX.4.15   IX.4.16   IX.4.18

Forum Baths   Plan   VII.5.2   VII.5.7   VII.5.8   VII.5.10   VII.5.12   VII.6.17   VII.6.18

Republican Baths   VIII.5.36

Sarno Baths   VIII.2.17   VIII.2.18   VIII.2.19   VIII.2.20   VIII.2.21

Stabian Baths   VII.1.8

Suburban Baths   VII.6.a

Baths in the Property of Julia Felix   II.4.6  (Public or not public?)

 

Fountains for public use

Fountains Plan (interactive) and list   Fountains

 

Gates to Pompeii

Gates plan (interactive) and list   Gates

 

Streets in Pompeii 

Street plan of Pompeii (interactive) with street names list   Streets

 

Temples at Pompeii and in the suburbs.

Doric Temple   VIII.7.31

Greek Temple   VIII.7.31

Lares Compitales   VIII.4.24

Sanctuary of the Public Lares   VII.9.3

Temple of Aesculapius and Hygieia   VIII.7.25

Temple of Apollo   VII.7.32

Temple of Augustus   VII.9.2

Temple of the Capitoline Triad   VIII.7.25

Temple of the city gods   VII.9.3

Temple of Fortuna Augusta   VII.4.1

Temple of the Genius of Augustus   VII.9.2

Temple of Hercules and Minerva   VIII.7.31

Temple of Isis   VIII.7.28

Temple of Iuppiter, Iuno and Minerva   VIII.7.25

Temple of Jupiter   VII.8.1

Temple of Mercury   VII.9.2

Temple of Minerva and Hercules   VIII.7.31

Temple of Neptune   VIII.7.31

Temple in the Triangular Forum   VIII.7.31

Temple of Venus   VIII.1.3

Temple of Vespasian   VII.9.2

Temple of Zeus Meilichios   VIII.7.25

 

Extra-urban Sanctuaries - outside Pompeii walls

Località Case Bottaro, Temple of Neptune.

Sanctuary of Poseidon.

Case Bottaro

 

Suburban sanctuary of Fondo Iozzino.

Sanctuary of Zeus Meilichios, Demeter or Ceres, Hecate-Artemis.

Fondo Iozzino

 

Temple of Dionysus at Sant’Abbondio.

Sanctuary of Dionysus-Liber.

Sant'Abbondio

  

Sanctuary adjacent to the west wall of Pompeii dedicated to a female deity (Minerva Italica?)

Adjacent to Fabius Rufus

  

Toilets for public use in Pompeii

Public latrine in Forum   VII.7.28

Public latrine under stairs   VII.2.47

Public Latrine?   VII.1.23

Public Latrine or cella meretricia?   VII.2.28

Latrine on the south side of the Palestra   II.7.11

 

Tombs outside the city gates of Pompeii

Tombs plan (interactive) and list    Tombs

 

Towers

Towers plan (interactive) and list   Towers

 

Some Electronic Book Sites

These sites predominantly have older out of copyright books, some that are now extremely rare but original sources.

 

The Internet Archive:                               archive.org

 

Arachne digital repository

   Deutsches Archäologisches Institut       ARACHNE

 

University of Heidelberg Digital Library:      HEIDI

 

Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte 

   Italian Ministry of Culture digital library   BiASA

 

Getty Digital Collections:                         The Getty

 

Google books:-   

Use your normal local country copy of Google. Search for a book title/author/keywords.

Use “” around the title if you want to be more specific.

On the results page use the drop down menu (which is usually) More to select Books.

You will then see the books that match some or all of your search criteria.

You can often search inside a book and see a fair amount of preview which, if you are lucky, will give you what you want.

Some older books can be downloaded by clicking on the cogwheel symbol on the top right of a book page.

Links

Parco Archeologico di Pompei

Web site - Parco Archeologico di Pompei

Facebook - Parco Archeologico di Pompei

Twitter - Parco Archeologico di Pompei

 

These are the official sites for the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

The Soprintendenza has undergone several name changes in recent years as responsibilities and autonomy have changed.

It was previously often referred to in short as SANPES, SANP and previously SAP. It is now the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

This is the government body responsible for the maintenance of historic monuments in Italy.

The site is in Italian and English and concentrates on the more spectacular tourist parts, but in doing so mentions some of the public buildings.

It includes a few photos and movies and very basic notes, but well below the level that you may require.

 

La Fortuna Visiva di Pompei - Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

http://pompei.sns.it/prado_front_end/index.php?page=Home&id=1

La Fortuna Visiva di Pompei is an archive for images and text from 1748 to the early 20th century.

It is supported by the SANP and other institutions such as the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) contribute material.

It is in Italian and English.

 

National Archaeological Museum in Naples

Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli

This is the official Soprintendenza site for the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

There is a search facility, which is only accessible from the Home page.

Using the Italian pages produces better results, though some pages are available in English by clicking on the GB flag at the top right of each page.

It concentrates on art, sculpture, and small finds, some of which may have been found in public buildings and may not very helpful for your purposes.

It has themed collections which can be browsed.

The Museum itself is very good and well worth a visit as the best material from Pompeii and neighbouring sites is collected here.

However, some of the material from here can be found in Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nazionale_di_Napoli

These all art and artistic small finds. Many have already been put back into their original find locations on pompeiiinpictures.

There are photographs here of the two large cork models of Pompeii, which show it as it was, with its decorations, in the 19th century.

 

ICCD: Il Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali

The ICCD has now created a database of art works held in Italian Cultural areas, including old drawings and watercolours held in Naples Museum.

This can be searched and the results downloaded as a PDF, which gives a copy of the artwork and the details about it.

The art works are useable for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons licence.

http://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/

 

Items in the Pompeii deposits

This a new category on Wikimedia and is still being built up.

It contains items that are under the control of the Soprintendenza rather than Naples Museum.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_of_the_Soprintendenza_Archeologica_di_Pompei_(inventory_SAP) 

 

Other Museums

Metropolitan Museum, New York           Search the Met Mus Collections

The Louvre, Paris, France                     Search The Louvre

Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées (French national museum photo repository)    Search Photo RMN

British Museum, London                       Search BM collections

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles   Search the Getty collections

 

Museum collections are increasingly using a Creative Commons approach allowing non-commercial use of their material.

This is unfortunately not always the case, particularly if a third party owns the copyright, and each country has different laws.

You should always check the copyright and the museum conditions of use.

 

Blogging Pompeii

Blogging Pompeii on Twitter

Blogging Pompeii on Facebook

Blogging Pompeii Web Site

 

The latest news tends to appear on Blogging Pompeii first, but it is sometimes in Italian. You may need to use Google Translate.

It is one of the most useful and interesting sites on Pompeii and its neighbourhood, and it is updated fairly frequently.

It includes courses, notices and reviews of new publications, whether books, articles or on-line material.

The original web site goes back as far as December 2008, and so it is useful for finding the more recent material, supplementing that in recently published books. Its Search facility may turn up useful material for you, though for new posts it is now largely superceded by the Twitter and Facebook versions. You can register and send requests for information.

 

Pompeiiinpictures

http://www.pompeiiinpictures.org/ and www.pompeiiinpictures.com

There is simply no parallel to Pompeii in Pictures’ virtually complete photographic cover of Pompeii.

There is a search facility, which works on the page text and photo captions, and so the results depend on what has been put there.

The quality and resolution of the photographs as published is only medium, but we do have the originals of much higher quality.

Contact us if you have a particular need or query.

All the relevant buildings are covered under their region and insula. In addition this page groups together all the “public” buildings.

There are on-line copies of Michael’s paper on Roman Personal Names and a Glossary that he prepared for his students.

 

Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia

http://classics.uc.edu/pompeii/index.php/home.html

This is Stephen Ellis’s site. He runs a long-term dig beside the theatres and by the Porta di Stabia.

There is a wide range of well indexed material here and an excellent set of links.

 

Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project  

http://digitalhumanities.umass.edu/pbmp/

 

FastiOnline

http://www.fastionline.org/

This is a database of archaeological excavations since the year 2000 and contains many papers of interest.

 

Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wiktionary

http://www.wikipedia.org/ You can choose your language.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

There is a lot of good stuff in the various parts of Wikipedia: there are often good summaries, a few illustrations, and the source references.

Clearly the quality of the content needs careful checking: do ask your supervisor if you are uncertain. It all depends on who wrote the material.

There are some good photos on it too, but cover can be patchy.

Its sister site, Wikimedia Commons, often has many more illustrations of high technical quality taken both by amateur and by professional photographers.

They are very unlikely to be archaeologists, and the captions may be unhelpful, missing, or wrong.

These two are public domain sites, but your source must always be stated.

Wiktionary can be helpful tracking down the meaning of obscure words or words that online translation software cannot fathom.

 

Arachne

https://arachne.dainst.org/

Arachne is the database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.

It is administrated by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Förtsch of the Universität zu Köln.

It provides archaeologists and classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes.

There is an ongoing process of digitizing traditional documentation (which are both threatened by decay and largely unexplored).

It contains many books, old paintings, drawings and photos collected by the DAI and not available elsehwere.

You can access the material without a login, but it will be in lower resolution.

If you register with Arachne (free) you can get higher resolution and also download material.

 

Peter Olsen’s reconstructions of some Pompeii public buildings showing them in 3D models.

The models have been realistically rendered using photos from a number of sources including pompeiiinpictures.

VII.9.7–8 Macellum   Macellum in 3D

Arch of Caligula    Arch of Caligula in 3D

VII.9.1 Building of Eumachia    Building of Eumachia in 3D

VII.9.3 Imperial Cult Building, or Temple of the Lares Publici    Imperial Cult Building, or Temple of the Lares Publici in 3D

VIII.7.16 Quadriporticus or Gladiators Barracks    Quadriporticus or Gladiators Barracks

VIII.7.19 Odeum, or Small Theatre    Odeum, Odeon or Small Theatre in 3D

VIII.7.30–34 Triangular Forum   Triangular Forum in 3D

VIII.7.20 Large Theatre    Large Theatre in 3D

VIII.7 south    VIII.7 south in 3D

II.7 Large Palaestra    Large Palaestra in 3D

VII.9.2 Temple of Vespasian    Temple of Vespasian in 3D

VII.8 Forum    Forum in 3D

VII.8.1 Temple of Jupiter    Temple of Jupiter in 3D

VIII.1.1–2 Basilica    Basilica in 3D

II.6 Amphitheatre    Amphitheatre in 3D

VII.7.32 Temple of Apollo    Temple of Apollo in 3D

These can also be downloaded and viewed on the Pompeii coverage on Google Earth.

 

Pompeii Forum Project

http://pompeii.virginia.edu/

This is the entry to the Pompeii Forum Project site, run by John Dobbins.

There is useful material on several topics, including the Forum itself and various surrounding public buildings, and there is much interesting and relevant material here.

 

Laura S. Klar, “Theater and Amphitheater in the Roman World”.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tham/hd_tham.htm

In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (October 2006).

A useful starter to theatres and amphitheatres.

 

The Excavations at Pompeii by the University of Helsinki, EPUH.

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/pompeii-project/

It includes a vast Bibliography section, which is beyond your likely needs and is not kept up to date anyway.

Their work does not include any public sites, but it is well worth a look at what they are doing.

 

Swedish Pompeii Project

http://www.pompejiprojektet.se/index.php

The Swedish Pompeii Project started in 2000 as a fieldwork project initiated at the Swedish Institute in Rome, to record and analyse an entire Pompeian city-block, Insula V 1.

In the recording process large quantities of data and photographs have been amassed and this web site is the forum chosen to share the collected information with those interested in the details of Pompeian houses.

 

Nova Bibliotheca Pompeiana Project

NBP-Project web site

Digitisation of the NOVA BIBLIOTHECA POMPEIANA. Repertorium bibliographicum pompeianum - Laurentino Garcia y Garcia.

NBP-Project is a freely consultable research tool that contains the bibliography from 1747 to 1998 by Lorenzo Garcia y Garcia.

There are a number of PDF files available covering

- over 16,000 bibliographic records

- over 10,000 authors from around the world

Note there is now a paper copy, the 1st Supplement to the Nova Bibliotecha Pompeiana, avaiable with updates from 1999 to 2011,.

 

Cyark

https://cyark.org/projects/pompeii/overview

Founded in 2003, CyArk pioneered the application of 3D recording technologies to the preservation and celebration of cultural heritage.

 

Other Pompeii sites

There are many other Pompeii sites which you can find by searching the Internet.

Whilst pompeiiinpictures is the most comprehensive coverage of Pompeii you may find specialist sites on an individual building or theme.

 

Searching

Be prepared to search using the same words in several different languages.

Many countries have ruled or researched Pompeii and material is often in their native language and sometimes in an antique or obsolete form of that language.

Pompeii for example may be Pompei, Pompeji, Pompéi, Pompeii, Pompeya, Помпеи.

Theatre may be teatro, Theater, théâtre, theatre (UK) or theater (US), teatro, театр.

[Italian, German, French, English, Spanish, Russian]

Other stratagems are to try alternative names for sites and features and to be prepared to think sideways. American sites, for example, will have spellings and terminology different from the “real” English that you will be expected to use in your UK work.

   

Bibliography

Based on material kindly provided by Michael Binns, University of Durham, Department of Archaeology, UK.

 

Dobbins, John, and Foss, Pedar. 2007. The World of Pompeii. London: Routledge

This is one of the best overall introductions. It has chapters by a wide range of specialists, and it includes an excellent Glossary, pp. 637–48, and detailed notes and (usually) further bibliographies at the end of each chapter. Useful chapters include Part II, “The Community”, Chapters 9–16, pp. 119–266, and Chapter 37, pp. 585–606, which cover most of the public buildings. There is a supporting website, at http://quemdixerechaos.com/pompeii/. It includes many links to other websites. The site is being updated and Pedar Foss is revising the website general Bibliography.

Lawrence, Ray. 2 ed., 2007. Roman Pompeii. Space and Society. London: Routledge

This is another very useful starter with some provoking use of statistics. Chapter 2, “Reshaping Public Space”, pp. 20–38, is likely to be useful for public buildings.

Zanker, Paul. 1998. Pompeii. Public and Private Life. Cambridge MA: Harvard UP

See especially the first “Public” part, and it includes extensive Notes at the back.

Ling, Roger. 2005. Pompeii. History, Life & Afterlife. Stroud, Glos.: Tempus

See especially Chapter 6, “Life in the City”, pp. 97–153.

Poehler, Eric; Flohr, Miko; Cole, Kevin, eds. 2011. Pompeii. Art, Industry and Infrastructure. Oxford: Oxbow Books

See the “Infrastructure” section, pp. 115–63, for material on roads, water supply and drainage, and general infrastructure.

Beard, Mary. 2008. Pompeii. The Life of a Roman Town. London: Profile Books

See Chapter 6 on city government, pp. 188–215.

Berry, Joanne. 2007. The Complete Pompeii, London: Thames & Hudson

See Chapter V, “Life in the Public Eye”, pp. 120–53, and Chapter VII, “Gods, Temples and Cults”, pp. 186–209, and the useful bibliography. Its illustrations are good.

Laurence, Ray, and Newsome, David J. 2011. Rome, Ostia, Pompeii. Movement and Space. Oxford UP

This has a lot of material on roads in Pompeii and some on the Forum and a very extensive Bibliography.

Jacobelli, Luciana. 2003. Gladiators at Pompeii. Roma: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider

This clearly is relevant to the Amphitheatre and the Quadriporticus of the Theatre and has a particularly well organised Bibliography.

Cooley, Alison and M. G. L. 2004. Pompeii. A Sourcebook. London: Routledge

Cooley, Alison and M. G. L. 2013. Pompeii and Herculaneum. A Sourcebook:Second Edition. London: Routledge

These are the best source of all the original Oscan, Latin, and Greek literary and epigraphic texts that you will need, translated into English and highly organized.

Hobson, Barry. 2009a. Latrinae et Foricae. Toilets in the Roman World. London: Duckworth. 

Hobson, Barry. 2009b. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges.

These are the two books to read on sanitation in Pompeii. Every toilet in Pompeii is described and illustrated, whether public or private! Better copies of all his photographs are now filed here under their individual addresses in pompeiiinpictures. Full references to other recent work are included.

Sear, Frank. 2006. Roman Theatres. An Architectural Study. Oxford UP.

This is a survey of all Roman theatres, discussing various aspects of them and of similar buildings, including amphitheatres, pp. 1–115. In the Catalogue it includes sections about the two theatres in Pompeii on pp. 130–2. It is well supplied with plans and references.

Bomgardner, D. L. 2000. The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre. London: Routledge.

This is a wide study of amphitheatres, including that in Pompeii and the Quadriporticus of the Theatre, which seems to have been a training place for gladiators in the latest period; pp. 39–58. There is a wide range of related comparative material. It is well supplied with drawings and black-and-white photographs (as was the standard then) and has an extensive section of Notes and a Bibliography.

Connolly, Peter. 1979. Pompeii. London: Macdonald Educational; from 1990 Oxford UP

This is an excellent basic introduction to many of the public monuments except religious ones. Its hand-drawn colour illustrations and reconstructions are outstanding and are all based on sound surviving archaeological and literary evidence. There is no bibliography.

Nappo, Salvatore. 1998. Pompeii. A Guide to the Ancient City. New York: Barnes & Noble.

This is another basic introduction, more extensive than Connolly and including religious sites, but also lacking a bibliography. The illustrations are quite good, but the glossary is unhelpful.

Capasso, Gaetano. 2003 and later. Journey to Pompeii. Napoli: Ottaviano, Capware.

This includes a DVD, and shows interesting and often plausible computer reconstructions of various parts of the city, which he has since developed into the MAV (Museo di Archeologia Virtuale). This is close to the entrance to the excavations at Herculaneum and well worth a visit: http://www.museomav.it/index.php?lang=en

 

 

 

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