91. HGE12 Pompeii. Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico or Villa of the Mosaic Columns.
Herculaneum
Gate East Side. (Eschebach
East 12, Kockel Nord 12).
Excavated 1837, 1905-1906.
According to NdS, this Villa was first excavated in 1837, however the excavation was not completely finished.
See Notizie
degli Scavi, 1910, (p.256-262, for excavation from March 1905 until all of
December 1906).
On the Kockel villas plan 1985 this is numbered 91.
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HGE12, Villa of Mosaic Columns, plan from NdS, 1910, fig.1, p.254.
HGE12, Villa of Mosaic Columns,
April 2019. Looking east to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
HGE12 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway, looking east.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Remains of painted plaster on north side of entrance doorway.
HGE12 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway, looking north along Via dei Sepolcri.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east along entrance corridor.
HGE12 Pompeii. May 2006. North wall of entrance corridor.
HGE12 Pompeii. May 2006. South wall of entrance corridor.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of painting on wall of entrance corridor.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south across garden, from end of entrance corridor.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway in south-west corner of garden area leading into funeral enclosure.
HGE06 Pompeii. Drawing
from Notizie degli Scavi, 1943 (p.296, fig.14).
Details of
tombs HGE02 – HGE09, including the rear entrance to HGE08 in the funeral
enclosure of the Villa of the Mosaic Columns, (p.295-314).
According
to Jashemski –
“Since this
was the only tomb that had a door leading from the tomb chamber into the
garden, and since the only entrance to the garden was from the villa of the
Mosaic Columns, it was obvious to Maiuri that the tomb and its garden belonged
to this villa.”
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, (p.256).
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-east across garden.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-west towards entrance HGE12 on west side of garden area.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north across garden, from end of entrance corridor.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east across garden towards mosaic fountain and columns.
HGE12 Pompeii. December 2006. Mosaic fountain at rear of columns.
The four mosaic columns once supported a pergola in the middle of the garden.
These were removed and are now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory numbers 9996, 9998, 10000 and 100001.
Cement columns now replace the mosaic ones.
HGE12 Pompeii. 1957. Looking east towards fountain at rear of columns. 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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HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
The columns in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
The columns in
Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail from base of
column in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail of column in Naples Archaeological
Museum. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Column in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail of decoration on column in Naples
Archaeological Museum. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Detail from base of
column in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. Two of the mosaic columns.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory numbers 9996 (front) and 9995 (rear).
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024. Detail from mosaic column, inv. n. 9996.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. August 2016.
Detail from column
on display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. August 2016.
Detail from column
on display in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
HGE12 Villa of the Mosaic Columns. September 2024.
Information card from Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
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