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Herculaneum Gate East Herculaneum Gate West Villa of Mysteries Villa Regina Boscoreale

HGW06 and HGW07 Pompeii. May
2006. Looking west.
According to Spano, found immediately to the left of the shop numbered 7,
was a large block of material.
This was found during
a small excavation in the area.
This large square mass
of material contained a large circular basin, open above.
This must have
collected in the rain water which flowed from the high part of the Villa of
Cicero, at the rear.
This basin, which had
already been drawn by Mazois, was only entirely emptied of its eruptive material
by this excavation.
Finished with sturdy
opus signinum, it was formed by an empty cylinder
(1.90m deep, and 2.65m wide).
The base was rather
concave, and in it (to the south-east) was a distribution channel for the water.
See Spano in Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, p.268-9.

HGW07 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway to shop.