Herculaneum. South-east corner. Entrance to site and Terrace of Balbus, Suburban Baths, Sacred Area and Boatsheds with skeletons.
Ercolano. Angolo sud-est. Ingresso
al sito e il terrazzo di Balbo, Terme Suburbane, Area sacra e le rimesse delle barche
con gli scheletri.
Herculaneum Entrance and views across terrace Terrace of Marcus Nonius Balbus Suburban Baths, atrium and surrounding rooms Suburban Baths, Waiting room, Frigidarium and Tepidarium Suburban Baths Caldarium Sacred Area Terrace Shrine of Venus Temple of four Gods Terrace north-west corner Ancient shoreline, arched vaults or boatsheds Building with boat exhibition
Herculaneum. Old entrance building on
south side of Corso Resina. September 2019. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
According to Camardo and Notomista, Maiuri decided to reorganise the entrance to the excavations.
In 1930 this monumental entrance was built, which would contain the ticket office, the toilets, and an office for the guards.
This side, facing onto Corsa Resina, contained a series of niches in which it was envisaged would have contained copies of various statues from Herculaneum, however this was never realised.
See Camardo, D, and Notomista, M, eds. (2017). Ercolano: 1927-1961. L’impresa archeologico di Amedeo Maiuri e l’esperimento della citta museo. Rome, L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.344).
Herculaneum. 2016. Old entrance building at top of avenue.
Looking south down roadway leading to new ticket office and entrance to excavations.
Herculaneum, 26th February 2018. Snow lying near the entrance to the site, but still with a beautiful blue sky. Photo from Tonia Borrelli.
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking through old entrance site towards Corso Resina. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum. September 2017. Looking
south down roadway towards site.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum. May 2001. Looking south down roadway towards site. Photo courtesy of Current Archaeology.
The green railings on either side of the roadway provide a view from a bridge over the cryptoporticus of the Palaestra, on the left, and across the Herculaneum site below, on the right.
In 1954, in order to be able to excavate the cryptoporticus, Maiuri decided to construct a bridge, which at the time was considered a very modern and daring reinforced concrete bridge.
See Camardo, D, and Notomista, M, eds. (2017). Ercolano: 1927-1961. L’impresa archeologico di Amedeo Maiuri e l’esperimento della citta museo. Rome, L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.345).
Looking
south-west across site below bridge, towards beautiful Bay of Naples. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum. Photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking south-west across site below bridge, towards beautiful Bay of Naples. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum, 26th February 2018.
Looking south-west from the roadway bridge across the snowy site. Photo from Tonia Borrelli.
Herculaneum, June
2011.
Looking south-west from the roadway bridge towards the
beautiful Bay of Naples. Photo
courtesy of Sera Baker.
Herculaneum. Photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking south across site, from access bridge. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum, April 2016. Maiuri’s access roadway bridge taken from Ristorante Gladiatori, Ercolano. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Ins. Orientalis II 4, Herculaneum, October 2012.
Looking north-east at the Palaestra cryptoporticus, with Maiuri’s access bridge above. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking west across
site at northern end, towards Decumanus Maximus, from access roadway bridge. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking west towards Decumanus Maximus, from access roadway bridge. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Looking west across site at northern end, towards Decumanus Maximus. from
access roadway bridge.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, June
2011. Looking west across site at northern end, from access roadway bridge. Photo
courtesy of Sera Baker.
Herculaneum, 1978.
Looking west across northern end of site, towards Decumanus Maximus.
On the left, are the upper rooms on loggia of Palaestra. Photo
courtesy of Roberta Falanelli.
Herculaneum, 4th December 1971.
Looking west across site at northern end towards Decumanus Maximus,
from access bridge.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking north-west from access roadway, towards upper rooms on loggia of Palaestra. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum, July 2007. Looking north-west from access roadway, towards upper rooms on loggia of Palaestra.
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Stephens. ©jfs2007_HERC-9261.
Looking west from access roadway to rear of Ins. Orientalis II at northern end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, October 2014.
Looking west from access roadway to rear of Ins. Orientalis II, northern end. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, July 2007. Looking west across site from rear of Ins. Orientalis II, northern end.
The wooden fences across the centre of the photo mark the position of the moving back of the western escarpment, above the Basilica Noniana.
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Stephens. ©jfs2007_HERC-9264.
Herculaneum. 7th August 1976. Looking south-west across site from northern end.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum, rear of Ins. Or. II, 4th December 1971,
(starting from left) - rear room of Ins. Or. II.13 behind Ins. Or.
II.12,
then Ins. Or. II.13 with doorway to the rear room behind no.12,
then Ins. Or. II.14, left of centre, then rear room of Ins. Or.
II.15, and rear room of Ins. Or. II.16, on right.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum, rear of Ins. Or. II,
4th December 1971,
(starting from left) - rear room of Ins.
Or. II.10, rear room of Ins. Or. II.11,
rear room of Ins. Or. II.13, behind Ins.
Or. II.12 (in centre).
Looking through Ins. Or. II.13 across
counter with glass display case towards the roadway Cardo V, and looking
through Ins. Or. II.14 to roadway, on right.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Looking north-west
across site from rear of Ins. Orientalis II, with apsed room of the Palaestra,
on the left. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, photo
taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking south-west across site at the rear of Ins.Or.II.4, from the access bridge. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Looking
south-west across site at the rear of Ins.Or.II.4, with apsed room of the
Palaestra, centre right. Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
Herculaneum, March
2008. Looking south-west across site at the rear of Ins.Or.II.4. Photo courtesy
of Sera Baker.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum. 7th August 1976. Looking south-west across site at the rear of Ins.Or.II.4.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum. October
2023. Looking
west from access roadway towards apsed room of the Palaestra. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, July
2007.
Looking west from
access roadway towards apsed room of the Palaestra, with doorways and windows
into two side rooms.
At the rear of the
apsed room are the upper rooms above the bakery at Ins.Or.II.8.
Photo courtesy of
Jennifer Stephens. ©jfs2007_HERC-9256.
The entrance at Ins.
Orientalis II.4, can be seen left of centre. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, 1957. Rear of Ins. Orientalis II, lower part of photo. Looking west across site from access roadway. 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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Herculaneum, 1957. Looking west from access roadway, with Ins. Orientalis II.4, in centre. 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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Herculaneum, September 2019.
Looking west from
access roadway, towards Ins. Orientalis II.4, in centre. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking west from
access roadway, towards Ins. Orientalis II.4, in centre, and along Decumanus
Inferiore. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum, 1957. Looking south-west across rear of Ins. Orientalis, from access roadway. 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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On the lower right is Ins. Orientalis II.4, and in the upper right is the Royal Palace at Portici.
Herculaneum. September 2010. New entrance and ticket office, on east side of original roadway down to site. Photo courtesy of Google.
Herculaneum, June 2014. Looking south towards “new” ticket office to site. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum. September 2010. New ticket office exit, on left, leading onto roadway into site. Photo courtesy of Google.
Maiuri’s Notebook April 1943.
“Two or three bombs fell at the entrance to the new excavations damaging or destroying the houses between the excavation and the countryside: doors and windows of the entrance demolished; glass in fragments in the excavations, the plaster from the rooms of the Palaestra pulled from the walls as if by a violent earthquake: a partition wall/screen from the “Casa a graticcio” slit: the ancient wooden coverings of the upstairs windows of one of the shops of the Forum, thrown onto the street in pieces: and in fragments, the ancient wooden screen, that by a miracle of preservation, closed one of the alae of the Casa del Bicentenario; and everywhere roofs and sheds demolished.
But Herculaneum has withstood the violence of the blasts by its elasticity and lightness: twenty metres downstream and a single bomb would have destroyed half of the excavations; all three bombs would have reduced the ancient houses, laboriously excavated from the hard vice-like grip of the mud, to a pile of rubble, as those other poor mangled houses along the Corsa di Resina.”
See Maiuri, A.
(2008). Cronache degli scavi di Ercolano,
1927-1961, introduced by Mario Capasso. Sorrento, Franco Di Mauro Editore
s.r.l., (p.131-2).
See Camardo, D,
and Notomista, M, eds. (2017). Ercolano:
1927-1961. L’impresa archeologico di Amedeo Maiuri e l’esperimento della citta
museo. Rome, L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.87).
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a
Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.19).
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Plan of the ancient city. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum from the air. 1958. Maiuri, 1958 Ercolano, I,p.19.f 22 oM.
At the top of the photo, northern end, are the houses of Resina, now known as Ercolano.
Photo used with the permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx116im006 Resource ID 42234.
See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database
Herculaneum
Antiquarium, opened 2018. June 2019. Looking towards entrance doorway. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Herculaneum, October
2023.
Looking west from entrance roadway, above original beachfront. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, October 2022.
Looking west from entrance roadway, above original beachfront. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, photo taken between October 2014 and November 2019.
Looking
west from entrance roadway, above original beachfront. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Looking west from roadway above original beachfront. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Looking north-west across site, from the access roadway above Suburban Baths. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, August 2021.
Looking north-west across site, from the access roadway
above Suburban Baths. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
Herculaneum, October 2020, in the year of the pandemic.
Looking north-west from the access roadway above Suburban Baths, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, October 2001. Looking north-west from the access roadway above Suburban Baths, on right.
On the left is the Sacred Area with the Terrace of Balbus, lower centre. In the middle of the photo is the terrace of the House of the Stags.
Photo courtesy of Peter Woods.
Looking north-west from the access roadway above Suburban Baths, on right. Photo courtesy of Current Archaeology.
Herculaneum, May 2001.
Looking north
towards Town Walls, below terrace of Casa dei Cervi or House of the Stags. Photo
courtesy of Current Archaeology.
Photo used with the permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx116im008 Resource ID 42237.
See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database
Herculaneum, June 2012. On the left is the Terrace of Balbus and east end of the arched openings to the boatsheds, below.
On the right is the Suburban Baths, with the “tower” room of the House of Relief of Telephus, on the extreme right. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, September 2021. Looking north across
eastern side of site. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, April 2013. Looking
north across eastern side of site. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, south-east corner, rear of Ins. Or. 1.1. 4th December 1971.
Looking north-west from access roadway, across garden area towards atrium of House of the Gem, in centre.
On the right is the rear of the atrium of Ins. Or. I.2, the House of Telephus. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum, June 2011.
Looking north from access roadway towards the “tower” room of the House of Relief of Telephus, in centre.
Note Vesuvius peeking over the site, centre top. Photo courtesy of Sera Baker.
Herculaneum, October
2023.
Looking north from access roadway towards the “tower” room of the House of Relief of Telephus.
Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, May 2007.
Looking north-east towards the Terrace of Balbus with the east end of the arched beachfront openings below.
On the upper right of centre is the “tower” room of the House of Relief of Telephus, and in the centre is the roof of the Suburban Baths.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Looking north-east from roadway towards Suburban Baths, centre, and House of the Telephus Relief, top right with scaffolding.
Above the roof of the baths, the House of the Gem can be seen.
The lower floor, with doorways onto a loggia, belonged to the House of M. Pilius Primigenius Granianus.
Herculaneum, May 2001.
Looking north-east, at the top of the photo, the roadway
down from the entrance can be seen. Photo
courtesy of Current Archaeology.
Herculaneum, August 2021. Looking north from entrance roadway
towards Terrace of Balbus. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
Looking north from entrance roadway towards rear of the House of the Stags, (Ins IV.21), above the Terrace of Balbus, in centre.
Vesuvius is towering
in the background. Photo
courtesy of Robert Hanson.
Herculaneum, May 2007.
Looking north towards the Terrace of Balbus, centre, with east end of arched openings described as boatsheds below it.
The remains of the wooden boat, found in 1982, would have been found in the lower right of the photo.
(See “SE corner”, part 9, for the Boat Pavilion). Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum, May 2006.
Below the Terrace, the east end of arched openings described as boatsheds can be seen.
Herculaneum. October 2001.
Looking north towards rear of the House of the Stags, Ins IV.21, in centre of photo above the Terrace of Balbus, lower centre.
The Suburban Baths are on the right. Photo courtesy of Peter Woods.
Herculaneum, 1978.
Looking towards rear terrace of House of Mosaic Atrium, on left,
and terrace of House of the Stags, on right.
Photo courtesy of Roberta Falanelli.
Herculaneum, May 2001.
Looking north from roadway towards the Terrace of Balbus,
with boatsheds below. Photo
courtesy of Current Archaeology.
Herculaneum, June 2012.
Looking north to lower level and 12 arches of the boatsheds below the Sacred Area, on left, and Terrace of Balbus, on right.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, May 2007.
Looking north to lower level and arches of the boatsheds below the Sacred Area, on left, and Terrace of Balbus, on right.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north to lower level and 2 of the arches at the west side of the boatsheds, below the Sacred Area.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north to lower level and 2 of the arches in the centre of the boatsheds, below the Sacred Area.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north to lower level and 2 of the arches at the east end of the boatsheds, below the Sacred Area.
On the right are the steps up to the terrace of Balbus, and to the south end of Cardo V.
Herculaneum, June 2012.
Looking north-west to lower level and arches of the boatsheds below the Sacred Area, on left, and Terrace of Balbus, on right.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
The full set of photographs for the boatshed can be a seen on our separate page, see Ancient shoreline, arched vaults or boatsheds
Herculaneum Entrance and views across terrace Terrace of Marcus Nonius Balbus Suburban Baths, atrium and surrounding rooms Suburban Baths, Waiting room, Frigidarium and Tepidarium Suburban Baths Caldarium Sacred Area Terrace Shrine of Venus Temple of four Gods Terrace north-west corner Ancient shoreline, arched vaults or boatsheds Building with boat exhibition