Pompeii. Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Excavated 1763.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii. April 2019. Looking north
on Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii.
December 2018. Looking north on Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii. Pre-1824.
Painting by J.W. Huber, looking north to Gate, with VI.17.1, on
left.
See Huber, J.W., 1824.
Vues pittoresques des ruines les plus remarquables de l’ancienne ville de
Pompei, pl. IV.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2015. Looking north from inside the city. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. April 2014.
Looking north on Via Consolare, through Gate from inside the city. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2010. Looking north from inside the city. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September 2004. Looking north from inside the city.
According to Eschebach, the ancient name for this gate was Porta Salis, or the Salt Gate.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.10)
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1961. Looking north from inside the city. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. c.1880-1890. Photo by G. Sommer no. 1214. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Album by M. Amodio, c.1880, entitled “Pompei, destroyed
on 23 November 79, discovered in 1748”.
Looking
north through gate. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate.
From an album of Michele Amodio dated 1874, entitled “Pompei, destroyed on 23
November 79, discovered in 1745”.
Looking
north through gate. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. From an album dated February 1874. Looking north through Gate. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. About 1870. Looking north from inside the city. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Between 1867 and 1874.
Looking north from inside the city. Photo by Sommer and Behles. Photo courtesy of Charles Marty.
Pompeii Porta
Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. From an album by Roberto
Rive, dated 1868. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. April 2014.
Looking north
towards Gate, and remaining stucco. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. December 2004. Looking north from inside the city.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September
2021.
Looking north from inside the city, through
the west side of the Gate. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Pompeii Porta
Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September
2021.
Looking north-west
towards the west side of the Gate from inside the city. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September 2005. Looking north towards west side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September
2021.
Looking north-east towards the east side of
the Gate from inside the city. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September 2005. Looking north through east side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south from the Via dei Sepolcri.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1966. Looking south from the Via dei Sepolcri. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2010. Looking south from the Via dei Sepolcri. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1927 press photo of visit to Pompeii by Mussolini. Looking south towards gate.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1845 drawing of tombs and gate.
Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Plate entitled “Entrance to the city from Herculaneum restored”. Engraved by G. Cooke.
Looking south from near Via Pomeriale.
See Gell, W, and Gandy J. P., 1819. Pompeiana the topography edifices and ornaments. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819. (p.137, Plate XIX).
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south through east side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1966. Looking south towards east side. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. June 1962. Looking south towards east side, on left.
Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods
(H43.2 Town gate Porta Ercolano).
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. East side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking east towards east side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking east towards east side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking east towards east side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south towards east side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate east side. Looking south towards city walls.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
See Notizie
degli Scavi, 1943, (p.275-294),
for article
entitled “Isolation of the
wall between the Vesuvian Gate and Herculaneum Gate.”
(Isolamento
della cinta murale fra Porta Vesuvio e Porta Ercolano).
Pompeii City Walls near Herculaneum Gate. Looking South.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
Pompeii City Walls near Herculaneum Gate. 1961. Looking west. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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Walls at Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. December 2006. Looking west along east side.
Walls at Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south towards east side.
Walls at Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south towards east side.
Walls at Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2010. East side with indentations in wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Walls at Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2010. East side with Masons marks? Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south towards west side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. May 2006. Looking south towards west side.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. September 2021.
Looking north
through Gate towards Via
dei Sepolcri. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Pompeii Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. April 2014.
Looking north
through Gate towards Via
dei Sepolcri. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.