Herculaneum in Pictures

Herculaneum in Pictures

The HerculaneuminPictures plan showing areas covered.
An interactive version can be found our web site www.herculaneum.uk

Jackie and Bob are pleased to announce the launch of HerculaneuminPictures as a companion site to our PompeiiinPictures offering. See www.herculaneum.uk  Access is free and may only be used for academic, personal and not for profit purposes.

We would like to thank Michael Binns and Buzz Ferebee for their many photographs that have helped fill the gaps we had with our own.
We would also like to thank Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill for allowing us to use material from his book Herculaneum Past and Future
(Wallace-Hadrill, A. 2011. Herculaneum, Past and Future. London, Frances Lincoln.)

Please feel free to tell anyone or any institutions or publish anywhere you think may be interested.

Everything is covered but in places internal coverage is thinner where the location is under restoration.

It is a first edition, but will expand in content like pompeiiinpictures did with colleague help over the years and as the Parco Archeologico di Ercolano opens access to more areas.

All our Pompeii sites including www.pompeiiinpictures.com and www.pompeiiinpictures.org will continue to be available separately and the Herculaneum and Pompeii web sites will be linked so you can move between them, whenever you wish.  

New Article: The Greek Graffiti of Herculaneum

Rebecca R. Benefiel andHolly M. Sypniewsk, The Greek Graffiti of Herculaneum. American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 122, No. 2 (April 2018), pp. 209–244

This article offers an overview of ancient Greek handwritten wall inscriptions, or graffiti, in the city of Herculaneum and the first contextual analysis of these inscriptions. First, we address how much Greek is found, where it appears, and what was being written in Greek. We then offer a discussion of Greek alphabets and personal names inscribed in Greek, which together account for half of the graffiti in Greek at Herculaneum. Finally, we examine Greek graffiti in context and discuss two locations in Herculaneum where the graffiti have survived and are still visible in situ. By presenting where Greek graffiti appear, what they contain, and how they communicate and interact with other texts, we aim to provide a more comprehensive picture of the distribution and context of Greek in Herculaneum and to offer new insights into the culture of writing in Campania.

SpaceLaw project is hiring post-docs and doctoral students!

Kaius Tuori, who has directed the Public and Private in the Roman House project during the last few years, has a new project investigating the uses of public and private space in the Roman administration.

The new SpaceLaw project (Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition, spacelaw.fi), funded by the ERC, is hiring

1. two post-docs for three years, and

2. two doctoral students for four years

to investigate the spaces of Roman Republicanism at the University of Helsinki! Ancient historians, archaeologists, legal historians, Roman lawyers and the like are strongly encouraged to apply.
Here are the ads (with a more detailed description of the project):

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researchers-spaces-of-roman-republicanism

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/doctoral-students-spaces-of-roman-republicanism


The deadline is 15.4.

N.B. Feel free to spread the word!

New paper: Armando Cristilli, 'A proposito di una statua nello Hüftmanteltypus al Museo Storico Archeologico dell’Antica Nola' in Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, 28, 2017, pp. 105-111

https://www.academia.edu/35957004/A_proposito_di_una_statua_nello_H%C3%BCftmanteltypus_al_Museo_Storico_Archeologico_dellAntica_Nola

https://www.academia.edu/35957004/A_proposito_di_una_statua_nello_H%C3%BCftmanteltypus_al_Museo_Storico_Archeologico_dellAntica_Nola

Book presentation: Strolling with power: the recent discoveries of the Garden of the Villa Arianna at Stabiae.