View Across Forum and Caleklia Arch, Pompeii, Italy
Collection: Europe
Title
View Across Forum and Caleklia Arch, Pompeii, Italy
Subject
Forum (Pompeii)
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Description
On verso:
No. 270. VIEW ACROSS FORUM AND CALEKLIA ARCH, POMPEII, ITALY,
Pompeii, an Oscian city near the mouth of the river Sarnus, on the Gulf of Naples, at the southeast base of Vesuvius, was buried under showers of ashes and pumice stone on August 24, A. D. 79. The city remained covered up until the year 1748, when a peasant digging a well made some valuable finds, since which time excavations have been carried on at intervals. A systematic, scientific investigation under government supervision was begun in 1870 and is continued without interruption. The results are of the greatest importance to historians, as Italian city life of 2,000 years ago in its very pose and setting is here preserved in a wonderful degree. Even the wall paintings in the houses of the rich are in many cases intact, and preserved, and potted fruits have been found in edible condition.
The forum or market place was an oblong 150 by 50 feet, surrounded by a colonnade which was in the course of reparation from the damages suffered during an earthquake when the catastrophe overtook the city.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1890-1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
270
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “View Across Forum and Caleklia Arch, Pompeii, Italy,” Digital Canton, accessed December 26, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/572.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
View Across Forum and Caleklia Arch, Pompeii, Italy
Subject
Forum (Pompeii)
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Description
On verso:
No. 270. VIEW ACROSS FORUM AND CALEKLIA ARCH, POMPEII, ITALY,
Pompeii, an Oscian city near the mouth of the river Sarnus, on the Gulf of Naples, at the southeast base of Vesuvius, was buried under showers of ashes and pumice stone on August 24, A. D. 79. The city remained covered up until the year 1748, when a peasant digging a well made some valuable finds, since which time excavations have been carried on at intervals. A systematic, scientific investigation under government supervision was begun in 1870 and is continued without interruption. The results are of the greatest importance to historians, as Italian city life of 2,000 years ago in its very pose and setting is here preserved in a wonderful degree. Even the wall paintings in the houses of the rich are in many cases intact, and preserved, and potted fruits have been found in edible condition.
The forum or market place was an oblong 150 by 50 feet, surrounded by a colonnade which was in the course of reparation from the damages suffered during an earthquake when the catastrophe overtook the city.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1890-1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
270
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “View Across Forum and Caleklia Arch, Pompeii, Italy,” Digital Canton, accessed December 26, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/572.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches