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VI.16.8 Pompeii. Workshop with steps to upper floor.

Linked to VI.16.9. Excavated 1844, and September 1903.

 

VI.16.8 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, with a threshold of Vesuvian stone. According to NdS, the workshop consisted of three rooms. The room with the entrance doorway also contained the staircase to the upper floor. The room on the left (south) of it was described as a rear room. The rear room had rustic walls and an earthen floor. The third room was the one entered at VI.16.9. See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.53).

VI.16.8 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, with a threshold of Vesuvian stone.

According to NdS, the workshop consisted of three rooms.

The room with the entrance doorway also contained the staircase to the upper floor.

The room on the left (south) of it was described as a rear room.

The rear room had rustic walls and an earthen floor.

The third room was the one entered at VI.16.9.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.53).

 

VI.16.8 Pompeii. December 2007.  Looking south-west across rear room, from entrance.

VI.16.8 Pompeii. December 2007.  Looking south-west across rear room, from entrance.

 

VI.16.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west towards site of staircase to upper floor.
According to NdS, the small entrance room contained the first section of the staircase with five masonry steps. At the top of the masonry steps was a staircase landing in wood supported by the beams.  Above the landing, wooden stairs continued to the upper floor.
At the foot of the stairs was the circular mouth of a terracotta cistern. Found under the landing was a deposit of amphorae. See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.54)

VI.16.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west towards site of staircase to upper floor.

According to NdS, the small entrance room contained the first section of the staircase with five masonry steps.

At the top of the masonry steps was a staircase landing in wood supported by the beams.

Above the landing, wooden stairs continued to the upper floor.

At the foot of the stairs was the circular mouth of a terracotta cistern.

Found under the landing was a deposit of amphorae.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, (p.54)

 

VI.16.8 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west from entrance doorway towards both rooms.

VI.16.8 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west from entrance doorway towards both rooms.

 

 

 

 

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