VII.5.19 Pompeii. Originally a Shop.

Now a part of the modern restaurant.

VII.5.18/19/20 Pompeii. 2015/2016. Looking towards entrances to Restaurant in Via del Foro. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. July 2011. Entrance to modern restaurant on Via del Foro (centre door). Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. April 2019.

Looking west to entrance to modern restaurant on Via del Foro. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance to modern restaurant on Via del Foro (centre door).

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Forum Baths peristyle from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Forum Baths peristyle.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking south towards Forum, from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking south-east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking south-east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. One of the Forum arches from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. c.1830. Drawing by Gell, looking south from roof of Baths towards arches into the Forum.

According to Gell, “this represents the place as it appears from the roof of the natatorium or piscina of the baths, the cone or dome of which forms a principal object in the foreground, and which, from its construction, would evidently have resisted the attacks of time, had it not projected above the soil of the vineyard.”

See Gell, W. Sketchbook of Pompeii, c.1830.

See book from Van Der Poel Campanian Collection on Getty website http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m16b425

See Gell, W, 1832. Pompeiana: Vol 1. London: Jennings and Chaplin, (p.82).

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking south-east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking east along Via degli Augustali from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking south-east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking north-east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. 1832. Drawing of view looking north-east.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. c.1830. Drawing by Gell from roof of Baths area, looking north-east.

See Gell, W. Sketchbook of Pompeii, c.1830.

See book from Van Der Poel Campanian Collection on Getty website http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m16b425

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking north-east from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007. View looking north from roof of new restaurant.

VII.5.19 Pompeii. December 2007.

View looking north across Forum Baths to Vesuvius from roof of new restaurant.

According to Fiorelli, the west side of the insula contained a number of large shops with an upper floor, between them was the entrance to the Forum Baths.

Although the shops did not have any particular merit to their construction, many rich objects were found some of which must have fallen from the upper floors.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.96)