Herculaneum IV.4. Casa dell’ alcova or House of the Alcove.
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IV.4 Herculaneum, August 2021. Open courtyard 6, looking east to room 7, the covered atrium. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Open courtyard 6, looking east to room 7, the covered atrium.
IV.4 Herculaneum. 7th
August 1976. Carbonised wood above windows and doorways, on east side of Open
Courtyard 6.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George
Fay’s slides collection.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Doorway to room 7, in east wall of open courtyard 6.
IV.4 Herculaneum. 1978. Looking east from open courtyard. 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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IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015.
Room 7, looking east across the covered atrium. On the north side of the covered atrium was a small area of open courtyard.
Here the rainwater flowed into a cistern below, the puteal was found in rustic room 10.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 7, looking south across the covered atrium.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 7, west wall at side of doorway of covered atrium.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 7, north wall of covered atrium, with doorways to oecus 8, on left, and room 9.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014.
Room 7, looking towards north wall of covered atrium, with doorways to oecus 8, on left, and room 9. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Doorway to room 8, an oecus.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Doorway threshold to room 8.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 8, looking towards north-west corner of the oecus.
IV.4 Herculaneum. Photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Room 8, looking through doorway towards north wall and north-east corner.
Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 8, west wall with window into open courtyard 6.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 8, north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 8, flooring.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 8, looking east across flooring. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 8, north wall of oecus.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 8, north wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4, Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Room 8, detail from upper north wall oecus. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2020.
Room 8, looking towards north-east corner of oecus. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 8, east wall of oecus.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014.
Room 8, looking towards east wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 8, south-east corner of oecus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. October 2012. Room 8, south-east corner of oecus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2017.
Room 8, detail from south wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 8, south wall of oecus.
IV.4 Herculaneum. October 2020. Room 8, central wall painting from south wall of oecus.
Wall painting of Ariadne abandoned on the island of Naxos as the ship of Theseus takes off.
This is the only wall painting that was left by the first Bourbon excavators. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
IV.4 Herculaneum. Photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Room 8, central wall painting from south wall of oecus, wall painting of Ariadne abandoned on the island of Naxos as the ship of Theseus takes off.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IV.4 Herculaneum. October 2012.
Room 8, central wall painting of Ariadne abandoned, from south wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. May 2009. Wall painting of abandoned Ariadne, from south wall of room 8. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IV.4 Herculaneum. May 2006. Room 8, wall painting of Ariadne abandoned from south wall.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Window and doorway to room 9, in north wall of room 7.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 9, threshold to doorway.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 9, base of window in north wall of room 7.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 9, north wall with remains of painted decoration on zoccolo.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015.
Room 9, looking south through doorway and window into room 7, the covered atrium.
Above the doorway are the beam support holes for the upper floor.
IV.4, Herculaneum, October 2014.
Room 7, north-east corner, with doorways to room 9, centre left, and rooms 11 and 10, on right. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 7, looking east towards doorways to corridor 11 and rustic room 10, on right.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Doorway to rustic room 10.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 10, north wall.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 10, east wall with puteal? in north-east corner, on left.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 10, south wall.
IV.4 Herculaneum. September 2015. Room 10, east wall with doorway to room 7, the covered atrium.
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