57. Boscoreale, Villa Regina. Villa
excavated 1977-80.
Surrounding land excavated 1980, 1982 and 1983.
1983 Jashemski excavations
According to Wilhelmina, in 1982 following Stanley’s death, she once again worked at Boscoreale, although no photograph’s dated 1982 have been included.
She said they had prepared a considerable area for her. The portion of the vineyard they had excavated the previous year had been replanted.
That year the area to the rear and to the east of the villa were excavated.
“During the 1983 season, they continued to work towards the front of the villa.
A row of huge trees bordered the public road on the side adjacent to the villa continuing across the roadway leading from the villa to the public road.
The root cavities of these trees were very large and quite different from the trees found in the vineyard.
Two umbrella pines (Pinus pinea) were identified, and the two other large trees were definitely deciduous but the root material was too damaged for a positive identification.
Both the shape and size of the root cavity suggest that these trees were probably plane trees (Platanus orientalis).
A survey of this site at the end of the 1983 season showed that most of the land surrounding the villa had been planted as a vineyard.
At the end of the three season, a total of approximately 250 vine root cavities and 120 stake cavities had been found.
There were 34 trees. Most of the trees were in the vineyard.”
See Jashemski, W.F., 2014. Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii: Memoirs of a Garden Archaeologist, (p.282, 284-7)
See De Caro, S., 1994. La villa rustica in localita Villa Regina a Boscoreale. Roma; Giorgio Bretschneider.
Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Cast of tree at south end of west side of site.
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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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983.
Plaster cast of tree root, replanted vines and plaster casts of original vines and stakes.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Path of ancient road with two stones said to be marker stones.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Path of ancient road.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Country road in front of villa.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Junction of the villa roadway (right to left) with the country road (between the stones).
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Excavations in progress at the south side of the villa.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Excavations in progress on south side of site.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Part of ancient country road.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Wilhelmina’s birthday cake.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Discovering and excavating the well/cistern.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Emptying the well/cistern of the lapilli.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Looking west across the area in front of the south-east corner of the villa.
Top left is the country road that ran past the front of the villa.
Left to right behind the cistern is the roadway that led from the country road to the entrance of the villa.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. The small vegetable garden with cistern at the rear.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983.
South-west corner with contours from small vegetable garden and cistern (well).
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Watering the new vines!
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According to Wilhelmina:
“One day in late June a severe thunderstorm began before lunch and continued for several hours.
While sheltering in the villa building, it was evident why the roadway from the entrance sloped downwards, otherwise the water would have poured through the front door of the villa where we were taking shelter.
We were very concerned about the rainstorm, as we had just found the most interesting soil contours which could have been destroyed by the rain.
We had found a small vegetable garden with a cistern in the middle to provide the necessary water.
The garden was laid out in small beds, separated by irrigation channels which also served as paths.”
Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. A summer storm.
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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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Clearing up after the storm.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. South side of villa with main entrance.
The road through the vineyard is in the foreground with the casts of the trees alongside it.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. South side of villa with main entrance, with cast of tree in front.
The white tree root casts at the front border the country road that passed in front of the villa.
A roadway led from this to the front of the villa.
A small country lane ran through the property and the path of this can be seen diagonally to the left.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, p. 288, plan 128, figs. 316-7.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. South side.
Cast of tree in front of main entrance to villa, at the rear is the newly planted vineyard.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983.
Looking down on south-west corner and newly planted vineyard.
At the far-right end of the site can be seen a cast of a tree trunk.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Looking towards the south-west and the ancient country lane running through the vineyard.
According to Wilhelmina, the ruts left by the carts travelling over this lane were the same distance apart (1.32m) as the wheels of the cart found in the villa.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, p. 288.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. East side of villa.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983.
Wilhelmina working on the threshing terrace on the east side at Villa Regina.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Cast of tree trunk.
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See Jashemski W. F., 2014. Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii: The Memoirs of a Garden Archaeologist 1955 – 2004, p.290.
Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Wilhelmina and associate at south-east corner of Villa Regina.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983. Looking towards Vesuvius.
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Villa Regina, Boscoreale. 1983.
Remains of a bowl of terra sigillata, found in the trash heap together with beautiful fragments of lamps. Photo by Sally Gladden.
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