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1 Apr, 5 tweets, 5 min read
A really lovely series of short films dealing with various aspects of #Pompeii featuring a lot of unseen footage from the new excavations in Region V.
In French but the images speak volumes.
Courtesy of @Inrap_ActuGE & via @rogueclassicist
inrap.fr/mediatheque/re…
This fabulous documentary explores the recent excavations in Region V in #Pompeii. It really brings together our understanding of the individual finds but also of the neighbourhood. Brilliant and compelling viewing. @pompeii_sites @MassimoOsanna
https://t.co/iFeViWHjlh
Didn’t think I’d be adding to this thread for a while but thanks to @MassimoOsanna a fabulous and previously unseen fresco from Region V excavations in #Pompeii has been revealed: Ariadne being abandoned by Theseus on the shores of Naxos. Wow.
Images: instagram.com/p/CHvqzLopq3W/… ImageImageImageImage
A close-up of that extraordinary decorative design...
A fuller picture of the Ariadne and Theseus fresco that was found in 2018 but only revealed yesterday by @MassimoOsanna. Those decorative vertical motifs are even more exquisite in full.
And for further details on this read @tomkington’s article (behind a paywall) below. Image

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26 Apr
A very brief history of Pompeii in plans:
Historically, the hill that covered the ancient city of #Pompeii was known as ‘La Civita’ – the settlement.
Gaultier 1754
raremaps.com/gallery/detail…
#cartography @_MiBACT #viaggioinitalia #ArTyouReady #paesaggioitaliano
While excavation of #Pompeii was in its infancy plans of the city were being made and I love that they are barely identifiable as being the ancient city we see today.
Lapatie 1776
Piranesi 1792 (detail)
La Vega 1800

#cartography for @_MiBACT #viaggioinitalia
Under the auspices of French rule at the start of the 19th cent, excavations in #Pompeii opened up huge swathes of the ancient site & the city walls were uncovered revealing the extent of the urban area.
Unknown 1800
De Jorio 1825

#cartography for @_MiBACT #viaggioinitalia
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26 Mar
Amongst the wealth of online resources relating to their #Pompeii exhibition that @GrandPalaisRmn have generously made accessible online is this lovely film of a reconstruction of the recently discovered House with the Garden in Region V by @pompeii_sites
The House with the Garden became renown for the discovery of the charcoal inscription which initiated further debate as to the date of the eruption but many other, now familiar finds were also uncovered in the property.
Image: @pompeii_sites
I was fascinated to see the House with the Garden in #Pompeii being excavated and it slowly emerging from the volcanic debris on my couple of visits to Region V.
Separated by 4 months here are “before & after” photos in March then in July 2018 as more pumice had been removed...
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16 Oct 19
For #WorldFoodDay where to start in #Pompeii & the Vesuvian sites? So many foods are represented in frescoes but have also been found preserved, predominantly in the form of carbonised remains, in archaeological excavations. The most famous is the daily staple of a loaf of bread.
One of my favourite food discoveries from #Pompeii is the incredible survival of this ceramic bowl of eggs found in the House of Julius Polybius. His near neighbour, Julia Felix, had a fresco of a plate of eggs (and a tea towel!) adorning the wall of her study. #WorldFoodDay
Possibly the most infamous foodstuff from #Pompeii is garum made by fermenting blood & innards of fish. Umbricius Scaurus was a proud garum producer & had mosaics of his garum amphorae in his house. It’s an ingredient used to bring together flavours of the dish. #WorldFoodDay
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24 Aug 19
Your annual reminder that although it is claimed, today probably wasn’t the day that Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 burying the landscape in volcanic debris and covering the Roman cities of #Pompeii and #Herculaneum as well as other settlements and rural villas in the area.
According to letters Pliny the Younger wrote to Tacitus, detailing his eye-witness account of the AD79 eruption, it happened on Aug 24th.
We only have transcribed copies of these letters & the eruption date on each version varies. It’s more likely that Vesuvius erupted in Oct/Nov
A charcoal inscription uncovered in #Pompeii contains the date ‘XVI K Nov’—16 days before the Kalends of Nov—equating to 17th Oct. Though no year is mentioned, the impermanence of charcoal suggests this could have been written close to the time of eruption.
Image:@MassimoOsanna
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24 Aug 18
Annual reminder that although it is claimed, this probably *wasn’t* the day that Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 burying the landscape in volcanic debris and covering the Roman cities of #Pompeii and Herculaneum as well as rural villas in the area.
According to letters Pliny the Younger wrote to Tacitus, detailing his eye-witness account of the AD 79 eruption, it happened on August 24th.
Except that it probably didn’t. We only have transcribed copies of these letters & so there’s a chance the date was copied down wrong.
The most persuasive archaeological evidence we have from the cities that Vesuvius buried to indicate the eruption may have been later in the year, are ripe pomegranates. These generally ripen & are harvested in autumn not August. The eruption date is probably in Sept or Oct.
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30 Jul 18
I’ve waited 22 years but very recently I finally got to visit the Roman theatre at #Herculaneum which is still buried in the eruption material of AD 79. My excitement was palpable... #HerculaneumTheatre
The Roman theatre in Herculaneum is located just north of the excavated part of the ancient town. But for a series of tunnels dug through it in the 18th/19th centuries, it lies hidden from view under the volcanic debris of 79AD. Only small glimpses of the structure are possible.
Today, the descent into the theatre is through a building on Via Mare & by way of a steep flight of steps cut into the volcanic material, just as it was at the time of the Grand Tour in the 18th century.

Image 2: 1840 lithograph of some of the visitors to the theatre (anonymous)
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