Herculaneum Augusteum, also known as Basilica or Forum area.
Augusteum in north-west corner of Decumanus Maximus.
Cardo III, Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking north towards west end
of Decumanus Maximus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north towards the west side of the front of the Augusteum.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north-west towards west side of the front of the Augusteum, still unexcavated.
In this unexcavated area, a second symmetrical arch to the already excavated four-sided arch on the east side, would have been seen.
It is expected to be located opposite the main entrance to the Basilica Noniana.
According to Kraus and von Matt;
West of the arch, the recent excavations have laid bare a row of brick piers which are reinforced by pilasters at the corners and were formerly faced with marble. These supported stuccoed arcades. Like the arch, this elegant construction on grounds of technique and style, can be dated to about 62AD and seems to correspond to what one finds on eighteenth century plans and drawings which located at this spot a five-gated entrance to the so-called Basilica, a building explored by Alcubierre and Weber only through tunnels.
See Kraus T. and von Matt L., 1975. Pompeii and Herculaneum: Living cities of the dead. New York: Abrams. (p.120).
Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking north at west end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking north towards statue base. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking north towards statue base. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Statue base.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Detail of statue base.
Decumanus Maximus, Herculaneum.
March 2014. Looking north-west towards statue base.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, April 2007. Looking north-west towards statue base. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum, April 2007. Looking north-west towards statue base. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north-east with corner of statue base and a structure.
Herculaneum. August 2013.
Looking north-east between statue base and structure. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum, October 2012.
Looking north-east with corner of statue base and a structure. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Structure in front façade of Augusteum, also known as the Basilica.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking east along front façade towards the four-sided Arch.
The two four-sided Arches would have been joined by an arched portico.
Herculaneum, September 2015.
Looking north-east towards four-sided arch at east front side of Augusteum.
Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking east along Decumanus Maximus from
west end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, June 2011. Looking east along Decumanus Maximus, from west end. Photo courtesy of Sera Baker.
Herculaneum, May 2011. Looking east along Decumanus Maximus, from west end.
On the right is VI.22/23. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum. March 2014.
South side of four-sided arch at east front side of Augusteum on Decumanus Maximus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum. March 2014.
Looking north-east towards four-sided arch at east front side of Augusteum on Decumanus Maximus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Decumanus Maximus, Herculaneum.
March 2014. Looking west from four-sided Arch.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking west from four-sided Arch. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Kraus,
“West of the arch, the recent excavations have laid bare a row of brick piers which are reinforced by pilasters at the corners and were formerly faced with marble. These supported stuccoed arcades.
Like the arch, this elegant construction can be dated to about 62 AD and seems to correspond to 18th century plans and drawings which located at this spot a five-gated entrance to a so-called Basilica, a building explored by Alcubierre and Weber only through tunnels.”
See Kraus T. and von Matt L., 1975. Pompeii and Herculaneum: Living cities of the dead. New York: Abrams, (p.120).
According to Parslow, the most serious inaccuracy on a plan drawn by Bardet (apart from failing to date his plan) was that he showed a series of five cross vaults carried on a portico across the front of the building; recent excavations have proved that the façade was fronted only by the two quadrifrontal arches at either end.
See Parslow, C. C. Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae. (p.49-51).
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking west from four-sided arch.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking west from base of statue base on west side of four-sided arch.
Herculaneum, April 2007. Looking west from four-sided arch. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum, 4th December 1971.
Looking south-west towards masonry pillar faced with marble.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum, June 2014. Detail from masonry pillar faced with marble. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum. March 2019. Looking west from four-side Arch with
masonry pillar, on left.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Decumanus Maximus, Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking south-west
towards masonry pillar.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, June 2014. Looking south-west from four-sided Arch. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north-west from four-sided arch.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking north-west from four-sided Arch. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Decumanus Maximus, Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking
north-west towards the west side from the four-sided arch.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Detail of base on north-west side of four-sided Arch. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum, April 2007. Looking north-west towards the west side from the four-sided arch. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum, October 2014. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Looking north from near four-sided Arch. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Decumanus Maximus, Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking north
from west side of four-sided arch.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north-east on west side of four-sided arch.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north-east towards the west side of four-sided arch.
Herculaneum, October 2014. Looking north-east towards the west side of four-sided arch. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Herculaneum, April 2007. Looking north towards the west side of the four-sided arch. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum, March 2014. Looking north into the
unexcavated at the rear of the four-sided Arch, on Decumanus Maximus.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking north, detail of the unexcavated
at the rear of the four-sided Arch.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking north, detail of carbonised wood
still held in the unexcavated.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum. March 2014.
Looking east towards unexcavated behind the four-sided Arch, on
right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, September 2015.
Looking north in the four-sided arch, which would have led into the east portico of the Augusteum, also known as the Basilica.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Looking north.
The arch was decorated in marble on the façade and simply plastered in white stucco on the sides.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Vaulted ceiling of arch on east side.
Herculaneum, August 2021. Looking towards east side of
arch with vaulted ceiling. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
Herculaneum, May 2011. Vaulted ceiling of arch on east side. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum. October 2001. Vaulted ceiling of arch on east side. Photo courtesy of Peter Woods.
Herculaneum. August 2013. East side of vaulted ceiling of arch. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum. August 2013. Detail of stucco-work. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Herculaneum, September 2015. Decorative vaulted ceiling of arch.
Herculaneum, April 2018. Detail of stucco from vaulted ceiling of
arch. Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.
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Herculaneum, September 2015. Decorative stucco remains.
Herculaneum, September 2017. Detail of decorative stucco remains. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, August 2021.
Looking towards vaulted ceiling of arch leading to the east side of the Augusteum, also known as the Basilica.
Photo
courtesy of Robert Hanson.
Herculaneum, May 2011.
Looking towards vaulted ceiling of arch leading to the east side of the Augusteum, also known as the Basilica.
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Herculaneum, September 2017. Looking north at ceiling of arch. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, June 2014. Looking north at ceiling of arch. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Looking north-west towards four-sided arch from Decumanus Maximus. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Herculaneum, 7th August 1976. Looking north-west towards upper east side of arch.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Herculaneum. March 2014. Looking
west towards upper four-sided arch from Decumanus Maximus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Herculaneum, May 2011. Looking west towards four-sided arch from Decumanus Maximus. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.