Pompeii. Porta di Nocera or Nuceria Gate. Excavated c.1803, 1814, 1952.
Pompeii Porta di
Nocera. April 2019. Looking north to gate, city and Vesuvius
still towering over.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. June 2012. Looking north towards Via di Nocera leading to gate.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. April 2019. Looking north to gate in walls leading
to Via di Nocera.
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. May 2010. Via di Nocera leading to gate. Looking north from Via delle Tombe.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2004. Looking north into the city from the outside.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2005. East side of gate.
II.8 Pompeii. September 2004. Via di Nocera, looking south to Porta di Nocera. I.20 on right.
Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2011. North side of Porta Nocera.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2015. Looking south through Porta Nocera to Via delle Tombe.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2012. Looking south through Porta Nocera to Via delle Tombe.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2004. From the inside looking south.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. North-west side looking south.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. East side looking east along walls.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. East side.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2005. Steps at east side.
Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2015. North side of Porta Nocera.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2005. Looking out to south.
Three gate post mountings can be seen on the ground under the gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. May 2015. Looking out to south.
Three gate post mountings can be seen on the ground under the gate and the cart ruts in the road.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. Gate post mounting.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. Gate post mounting in middle of road.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. Gate post mounting.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. South side of gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. South-west side of gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. South-west side of gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. Masons marks on wall at south-west side of gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. South-west side of gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. December 2006. South-east side of gate.
Pompeii Porta di Nocera. Cippus of Titus Suedius Clemens. The Cippus is inscribed:
Ex auctoritate
imp(eratoris)
Caesaris
Vespasiani
Aug(usti)
loca publica, a
privatis
possessa T(itus)
Suedius
Clemens tribunus
causis c
ognitis et
mensuris factis
rei publicae
Pompeianorum
restituit
By virtue of authority conferred upon him by the Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus,
Titus Suedius Clemens, tribune, having investigated the facts and taken measurements,
restored to the citizens of Pompeii public places illegally appropriated by private persons.
Similar Cippi were found at the Porta Ercolano, Porta Marina and the Porta Vesuvio.
The wording “rei publicae Pompeianorum” on one of these, discovered in 1763, was the first positive identification that the site was Pompeii.
Until then scholars had divided opinions on the city buried under Civita. Many, including the first official excavators, thought it was the ancient city of Stabiae.
See Conticello,
B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii.
Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 225).