Stabiae Villa San Marco updated on pompeiiinpictures

We have significantly updated the pompeiiinpictures pages for the Villa San Marco with new photographs from our recent trip, the Jashemski Archive and from other contributors.

Villa Poppea now has photos of some of the rooms we had been unable to access.
Our thanks to Drew Baker and Martin Blazeby for these.

Villa of L. Crassius Tertius has been updated with photos from 2005.
Our thanks to Massimo Gravili for these.

There are now four new villas added in addition to Villa San Marco.

Stabiae Villa San Marco                           Villa San Marco
Oplontis Villa di Poppea                           Villa Poppea
Oplontis Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius    Villa L. Crassius Tertius

Stabiae Villa Arianna                              Villa Arianna
Stabiae Secondo Complesso                   Secondo Complesso

Our thanks also Buzz Ferebee and Michael Binns for their valued contributions to several villas.

Our front page has also been revised to separate the site content for Pompeii, Boscoreale, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Scafati and Stabiae.

There is now a list and location plan of 103 villas in Pompeii and in the area between Vesuvius and Stabia at Villa locations. Most of these villas were reburied after excavation and are not able to be visited and unfortunately this means that for these we do not have any photographs. 

New villas on pompeiiinpictures

On our recent trip we were delighted to be able to go and see Villa Arianna at Stabiae. What a gem.

However looking through our pictures when we got home we were dismayed to see the deterioration over 10 years. Lets hope some money can be allocated to it.

Villa Arianna, Stabiae, April 2005. 

Room N, painted decoration in south-east corner of room.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

  

Villa Arianna, Stabiae, September 2015.
Room N, south-east corner and south wall with doorway.

The Villa Arianna custodians' were excellent, so enthusiastic about "their" villa and pointing out things to us that we would easily have missed.

We hope our pictures encourage others to discover its whereabouts and visit it.

Whilst we were there we were told about an exhibition at Quisisana which runs until the end of December. This exhibition appears to contain many frescoes and items from the villas, formerly in the Stabiano Antiquarium. However it seems you need a car to get to it and we did not have one so will try to visit it in December. Has anybody been to the exhibition or got any photos?

We have now added several new villas to our villas page.

Villa Arianna at Stabiae
The Secondo Complesso at Stabiae.
The Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius at Oplontis

See http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/RV/villas.htm

Next on our list is a complete revision of the pages for Villa San Marco at Stabiae.

New volume: Rivista di Studi Pompeiani 24

The latest volume of Rivista di Studi Pompeiani is out, which reports on activities and research that took place in the Vesuvian sites in 2013. The contents are:


Ernesto De Carolis, Maria Rosaria Senatore, Commemorazione di Annamaria Ciarallo
Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, Editoriale: A volte ritornano
Ernesto De Carolis, Giovanni Patricelli, Rinvenimento di corpi umani nel suburbio pompeiano e nei siti di Ercolano e Stabia
Antonella Ciotola, Ancora sul rilievo neoattico di Ercolano: una diversa lettura
Gaetana Boemio, Luana Toniolo, Ceramica da mensa da contesti tardo antichi a Napoli e nel Vesuviano, un confronto tra costa ed entroterra
Marie Tuffreau Libre, Isabel Brunie, Sebastien Daré, Peinture et perspective à Pompei, un ensemble d' objets liés au travail pictural (I,16, 2.3.4)
Maria Rosaria Vairo, Robyn Jennifer Veal, Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone , Lo sfruttamento delle risorse boschive in Campania nel tardo antico: l' evidenza antracologica dai siti vesuviani
Antonio Varone, Titulorum pictorum Pompeianorum imagines. Integrazioni

Attività della Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei Ercolano Stabia
Uffico Scavi di Pompei (G.Stefani)
Laboratorio Ricerche applicate (E. De Carolis)
Servizio Secondo tecnico Informatico: Introduzione (V.Papaccio); L' area archeologica di Villa dei Papiri di Ercolano.Un primo intervento di ingegneria naturalistica a protezione di persone e reperti (F. Chiatto). Lavori presso l' antiquarium di Boscoreale, Un esempio di manutenzione ad Ercolano, Messa in sicurezza di regiones in Pompei (I.Bergamasco)
Uffico Editoria ( M.P.Guidobaldi)
Ufficio Scavi di Oplontis (L. Fergola)
Ufficio Scavi di Boscoreale (A.M. Sodo)
Uffico Scavi di Ercolano (M.P.Guidobaldi , A.Wallace Hadrill, J-Thompson, D.Camardo, A. Cinque, G. Irollo, M.Notomista, P.M. Pesaresi, A. Laino, A. D' Andrea, M. Giacobbe Borelli, Ch.Biggi, S.Court)
Vesuviana , Attività Alma Mater Studiorum a Pompei ed Ercolano 2006-13 (A. Coralini)
Ufficio Scavi di Stabia (G. Bonifacio)
Relazione preliminare sulla decorazione marmorea alle Ville Arianna e San Marco, Stabiae (S. Barker, J.Clayton Fant, C.A. Ward)
Stabiae, Villa Arianna, Relazione sulle campagne di scavo e restauro condotte dal Museo Hermitage e Fondazione RAS (P.Gardelli, A.Butyagin)
Preliminary Field Report on the 2012 Excavations at the Villa San Marco, Stabiae (T.Terpsta)
Ufficio Scavi Zone periferiche (C. Cicirelli)
 
Discussioni
Valorizzazione, fruizione sostenibile dei siti, accessibilità ecc. (P.G.Guzzo)
 
Recensioni
Ciceronis filius , testo latino di Ugo Enrico Paoli, edizione italiana e commento di E. Renna , Napoli 2013 (A.Casale)
Davvero. La Pompei di fine 800 nella pittura di Luigi Bazzani, Catalogo Mostra Bologna - Napoli 2013, a cura di D.Scagliarini, A.Coralini, R.Helg, Bologna 2013( L. Jacobelli)
Giuseppe Maggi, Ercolano. Fine di una città, Gorgonzola (Mi) 2013, (V. Castiglione Morelli)
Kristina Milnor, Graffiti & the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii, Oxford University Press, Oxford-NewYork 2014 ( A.Varone)
Vita dell' Associazione Amici di Pompei : Lapide in memoria di Amedeo Maiuri (RED. )

Field School at Oplontis 'Villa B'

From SWAT Archaeology:

From May 30th to June 17th 2016 we will be excavating at 'Villa B' at Oplontis next to Pompeii in Italy. We will be spending three weeks in association with the University of Texas investigating the Roman Emporium (Villa B) at Oplontis next to Pompeii. The site offers a unique opportunity to dig on iconic World Heritage Site in Italy and is a wonderful once in a lifetime opportunity. 

Cost is £175 a week which does not include board or food but details of where to stay are available (Camping is 12EU a day and the adjacent hotel 50EU).

Email Paul Wilkinsonat info@swatarchaeology.co.uk for update on places left

Dr. Paul Wilkinson PhD. MIfA

SWAT Archaeology

www.swatarchaeology.co.uk

SWAT Archaeology, School Farm Oast, Graveney Road, Faversham, Kent ME13 8UP

Mob - 07885 700112  Office - 01795 532548aces left.