II.6 Pompeii. Anfiteatro or Amphitheatre.
First excavations 1748, then abandoned.
Completely excavated between 1813 and 1816.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west across arena from upper level of the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii, 1968.
Looking north across amphitheatre towards Vesuvius. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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II.6 Pompeii. 1966.
Looking north-east across arena from upper level of the amphitheatre. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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II.6 Pompeii. 1966. Looking north. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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II.6 Pompeii. June 1962. Looking north across amphitheatre towards Vesuvius.
Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods
(P43.7 Arena and Tiers Amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. 1961.
Looking north across amphitheatre. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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II.6 Pompeii. 1955.
Looking north towards Vesuvius. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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II.6 Pompeii. 1954. Looking towards the north end of arena of amphitheatre. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. 1950s aerial view.
Looking north across amphitheatre towards II.4 Insula of Villa of Julia Felix, in upper left. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. October 1948. Looking north across amphitheatre. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. 1943. Looking north across amphitheatre. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. 1940. Looking north across arena from upper level of the amphitheatre. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. Old undated photograph by Mauri, no.024.
Looking north across amphitheatre to a smoking Vesuvius. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. Michel
Amodio cabinet card 2959 amphitheatre. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Rick
Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. From
an Album by M. Amodio, c.1880, entitled “Pompei, destroyed on 23 November 79,
discovered in 1748”.
Looking north. Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. From a
coloured album by M. Amodio, dated c.1880. Looking north. Photo courtesy of
Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. From
an Album dated 1882. Looking north. Photo courtesy of
Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. Looking north across amphitheatre. Sommer Napoli 5330, c.1880? Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. Looking north across amphitheatre. No. 2330, c.1860? Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. Roberto
Rive no. 448, from an album dated 1868. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Rick
Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north to Vesuvius and north-east side of upper level of the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-east from upper level of the amphitheatre.
The small boxes visible along the upper level, were possibly for women.
They were only allowed to have a place in the upper portion of the amphitheatre.
See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan (p.218).
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009.
Looking along east side of upper level, from the passage running along the outside of the boxes of the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. Photograph by Sommer, c.1879. (Tauchnitz 383).
Looking north-east across amphitheatre. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west from upper level of the amphitheatre.
In the night raid of 20th September 1943, one bomb fell onto the arena, and another towards the north side.
This caused the demolition of part of the enclosing wall of the arena, and a section of seats of the ima cavea on the north-west side.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.46)
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west from upper level of the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. Early 20th century postcard by G. Sommer, no.79.
Looking north-west across arena from upper level of the amphitheatre.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
II.6 Pompeii. January 1977. Looking south-east across amphitheatre, from upper level. Photo courtesy of David Hingston.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking south along upper east side.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking south-west from upper east side.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking south-west.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking south-west.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking north-west from upper east side.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Steps from upper level of the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. East side of terrace of the amphitheatre, with modern Pompeii in background.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north to Vesuvius from the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Vesuvius from the amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. North-east side of amphitheatre.
II.6 Pompeii. March 2009. North-east side of the amphitheatre.