Herculaneum V.1. Casa Sannitica or Samnite House.

Excavated 1931-34.

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V.1, Herculaneum, October 2014.

Looking north along east side of Cardo IV. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking north-east towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1 Herculaneum. October 2022.

Looking east through entrance doorway towards atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

The door jambs in opus quadratum are topped with Corinthian capitals.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2011.

Identification name plate, on north side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Upper entrance doorway with capitals.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. Detail of upper entrance doorway, with capitals. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. North end of door portal.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. Tufa capital from entrance doorway at north end.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Detail of capital on upper north side of entrance doorway

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Upper north side of doorway with capital.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Lower north side of doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Detail from doorway threshold, on north side of doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Doorway threshold, looking east towards entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Detail from doorway threshold, on south side of doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Lower south side of doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Upper south side of doorway with capital.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Detail of capital on upper south side of entrance doorway

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. South end of door portal.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. Tufa capital from entrance doorway at south end.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking west towards doorway threshold, and out onto Cardo IV.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1. Herculaneum. May 2010. The Samnite House doorway, with a floor of opus signinum in the entrance corridor.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2019. Looking east across flooring in entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013.

Looking east towards atrium across opus signinum flooring in entrance corridor, consisting of a scale pattern in white tesserae.  

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2011.

Looking west across opus signinum flooring in entrance corridor towards doorway. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

V.1 Herculaneum, September 2016. Looking east from entrance corridor across atrium. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking east from entrance corridor towards atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1, Herculaneum, October 2014.

Looking east from entrance corridor towards atrium. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. North wall of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. North wall of entrance corridor.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2019. Looking towards upper north wall of entrance corridor, at west end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1 Herculaneum. March 2019. Detail from lower north wall of entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.1, Herculaneum, 7th August 1976. Detail of north wall of entrance corridor.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.

V.1 Herculaneum, 1961. North wall of entrance corridor. 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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V.1, Herculaneum. 1961.

Looking east across atrium from entrance corridor. 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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V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking east across atrium, from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1, Herculaneum, October 2014.

Looking east along south side of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. Looking towards south wall from entrance.

V.1 Herculaneum. May 2010. South wall of entrance corridor, or fauces.

V.1 Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking west along south wall of entrance corridor from atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1, Herculaneum. May 2018. Detail from upper south wall of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.1, Herculaneum, October 2014.

Ceiling of entrance corridor, looking east from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.1, Herculaneum, March 2014. Detail of entrance corridor ceiling.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

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