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Lost Villas of Vesuvius

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Here are some additional images of the villas featured in "Letter from Vesuvius: Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano." Credit for all images: Courtesy Girolamo F. De Simone.

  • An apse in the Villa of Augustus is painted with a mythological scene involving Tritons and Nereids.
  • One of the doorways into a room in the Villa of Augustus is decorated with Dionysian themes, including grapevines, wine chalices, and clusters of grapes.
  • The wine cellar in the Villa of Augustus had large ceramic storage jars embedded in the floor in which the juice from crushed grapes was collected and fermented.
  • A theoretical reconstruction of one of the terraces on which the monumental entrance into the Villa of Augustus was constructed
  • A black-and-white mosaic covers one of the floors of a Roman villa at Pollena Trocchia.
  • The remains of one of the rooms of the bath complex belonging to the large villa in Pollena Trocchia

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