II.5.4 Pompeii. Blocked entrance?

Excavated 1755 and between 1912 and 1972.

(Originally when excavated, this was numbered as Reg. II, Insula 8, no 4).

II.5.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Possible blocked entrance?

According to CTP during the excavations in the 1950s the doorways on the north side (of the insula) indicated four entrances.

All later plans, Eschebach, Jashemski, etc., show four entrances on the north side and the fifth on the south side.

During 1972 Mrs Jashemski cleared the north-west side of the insula and found only three entrances.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas, pp. 48-49.

II.5.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Possible blocked entrance? or an area where the wall has been repaired?

II.5.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south towards wall on Via dell’Abbondanza.

II.5.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south towards wall on Via dell’Abbondanza.

II.5.4 Pompeii, on left. September 2005.       Via dell’Abbondanza looking west from Porta Sarno.                 III.7, on right.

III.7 Pompeii, on left. September 2005.        Porta Sarno / Sarno Gate, looking east.                        II.5.4, are on right.