VIII.2.25 Pompeii. September 2005. Street altar.
VIII.2.25 Pompeii. 1824 drawing of the street altar.
See Mazois, F., 1824. Les Ruines de Pompei: Second Partie. Paris: Firmin Didot. (Plate VI).
VIII.2.25 Pompeii. December 2004. Street altar
According to Mau, this was the largest of the street altars found.
It stood freely in a vaulted niche on the north side of VIII.2, but no traces of painting were to be seen near it.
See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey, F. W., Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 236).
VIII.2.25 Pompeii. Street altar on south side of Vicolo della Regina.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
VIII.2.25 Pompeii. 1968. Street altar on south side of Vicolo della Regina.
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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