VIII.1.a Pompeii. Villa Imperiale or Villa Suburbana

or Suburban Villa of Porta Marina.

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VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2011. Looking east from site entrance towards roadway up to Porta Marina.

The Villa Imperiale is located below the rooms of the Antiquarium, on the right of the photo. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. 2016/2017. Information card. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2015.

Looking east to north end of portico, remains of the city walls, and modern Antiquarium, above. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2011. Looking east to north end of portico and garden. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east along the garden and portico.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2011. Looking south-east along portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a. Pompeii. August 1965. Looking south-east along portico. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2011. Looking east to stairs at north end of portico, and Porta Marina. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. October 2023. North end of portico and garden. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2015. Stairs to Via Marina at north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2011. North end of portico with stairs to Via Marina. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2011. Stairs to Via Marina at north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2006. Staircase at north end of portico.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Looking through window to steps, at north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. May 2011. Looking through window to steps, at north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Looking south to garden area from outside steps. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Looking west down to landing with window onto outside steps. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017.

Looking east up steps from landing with window overlooking outside steps. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017.

Looking south down steps from landing to portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017.

Looking north up steps to landing with window overlooking outside steps. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. April 2019.

Villa Imperiale, lower right. Looking north towards slope up to Porta Marina, and behind in the distance, VII.16. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

The large white panel at the back, in the upper right, is the Forma Urbis Pompeiorum.

This is a plan of Pompei cut onto a 5m wide slab of travertine and was completed in 1947.

This is in an area known as the Lararia dei Pompeianisti. (For photos see, VIII.1.4).

It was opened in 1948 and had the busts of Fiorelli, Ruggiero and Mau there. 

The busts of Maiuri and Della Corte were added later.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider.  (p. 204-5).

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. April 2019. Looking towards north end of portico, with the original city walls, on right. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking towards north end of portico, with the original city walls, on right.

In the north-east corner between the two walls is the location of the outlet. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.

According to Van der Graaff –

“Another outlet [of a drain] on the south side of the Porta Marina is part of the outer curtain, indicating a similar if not earlier date.

The drain likely functioned as an overflow for a system of cisterns set slightly farther uphill, but damage wrought on the area by Allied bombing in World War II makes this claim unverifiable (Note 117). The channel ceased to function with the expansion of the Temple of Venus, when it disappeared behind the masonry of the Villa Imperiale in the course of the first century BCE.”

See Van der Graaff, I. (2018). The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy. Routledge, (p.104 & Note 117).

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking towards north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2015. North end of portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a Pompeii.  North end of portico.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. North end of portico.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking towards north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Looking towards north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Detail of painted decoration on north wall at end of portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. October 2023.

Detail of painted decoration on east wall at end of portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. December 2007. North end of portico. Painted plaster.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. December 2007. North end of portico. Painted plaster and steps from garden.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. December 2007. North end of portico and Porta Marina.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Looking north along portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. May 2015. Looking north along portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking north-west from portico across garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. May 2018. Looking south-west from portico across garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VIII.1.a, Pompeii. June 2017. Looking south along portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. September 2011. Looking towards north end of portico. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VIII.1.a Pompeii. Villa Imperiale - possible Via Antiqua. September 2005. 

Soil was brought in to cover the old road when making the garden of the Villa.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.284).

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