T10 Pompeii. Tower X.
Part 2 Part 1 Towers plan
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking towards south wall on first floor.
The steps, on the left, would have led to the upper floor. The doorway, on the right, leads to steps to the lower floor.
Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. South-west corner of first floor. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. West wall.
Doorway onto wall-walk in south-west corner of first floor, looking west to Tower XI.
Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west along wall-walk towards Tower XI. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking east towards west side of first floor room from wall-walk. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north on wall-walk, with west wall of first floor, on right. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east through doorways. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking towards south side of west wall with doorway into Tower. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from south side of doorway in west wall. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
City Wall on west side of Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Detail, looking south. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west to east side of first floor from wall-walk. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west towards south end of doorway on first floor wall-walk. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west towards north end of doorway on first floor wall-walk. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X and walls, Pompeii. December 2005. Looking along the city walls towards the east side of the tower.
Tower X, Pompeii. December 2019.
East side of the tower. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Tower X, Pompeii. July 2010. East side of the tower. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Tower X, Pompeii. December 2005. East side of the tower.
Tower X, Pompeii. 1961. East side of the tower. 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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Lower east side with arched postern doorway with arrow slit window above. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X. Pompeii. December 2005. East side with arched postern doorway with arrow slit window above.
Tower X. Pompeii. 1964. East side with arched doorway. 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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Tower X, Pompeii. May 2015.
North side of tower, with arrow slit windows on lower floor now level with filled in ground.
Looking south to tower and city walls from walk around walls. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
See Notizie degli Scavi, 1943, (p.275-294),
for article entitled “Isolation
of the wall between Porta Vesuvius and Herculaneum Gate.”
(Isolamento della cinta murale fra Porta Vesuvio e
Porta Ercolano).
According to Van der Graaff –
“Tower X seems to have fared better. The arrow slits
opening on its flanks were closed at some point in antiquity at an unspecified
date.
However, unlike the two towers farther west, much of
the building was probably standing at the time of the eruption.
Large parts of the structure lay collapsed in volcanic
debris on the exterior of the fortifications at the time of excavation. (Note
105).
See Van der Graaff,
I. (2018). The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy. Routledge, (p.135).
Tower X, Pompeii. March 2009. Upper north side. Taken from the walk around the walls.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Upper west side of tower. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010.
Exterior window on west side of lower floor. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Upper north side at east end. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. March 2009. Upper exterior of windows on north side.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south, with detail of upper exterior windows on north side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Tower X, Pompeii. March 2009. Lower windows on north side of first floor at east end.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2015.
Looking south to detail of lower windows on north side, first floor, at east end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2015. Detail of upper north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Tower X, Pompeii. March 2009. Upper north-east corner.
Tower X, Pompeii. July 2010. Upper north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Tower X, Pompeii. December 2005. Upper north-east corner, from the east side.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Upper east side. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2015. Detail from east side of the tower. Photo by Buzz Ferebee.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Doric frieze on upper east side of tower. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of Doric frieze on upper east side of tower. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. May 2010. Upper east side. Photo courtesy of Ivo van der Graaff.
Tower X, Pompeii. July 2010. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Looking south from tower and city walls towards Vicolo del Labirinto and VI.11, on right.
Tower X, Pompeii. December 2004. Looking south from tower and city walls towards Vicolo del Labirinto and VI.11, on right.
VI.11.10 Pompeii, on left. May 2006. Vicolo del Labirinto, looking north to Tower X, with VI.15 on right.
Tower X. Pompeii situated lower right of photo. 1957. Looking south-west across model in Naples Museum from above the Walls.
The northern end of VI.15 is on the left, with VI.11 in centre, and VI.9 on right. 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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Tower X, Pompeii. December 2005. Looking towards south-east side.
Tower X, Pompeii. Looking east along the city walls towards the west side of the tower.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
Tower X, Pompeii. June 1962. Looking east towards the west side of the tower.
Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods
(P43.3 POMPEII Defensive tower on city wall)
Tower X, Pompeii. 1978.
Looking east along the city walls towards the west side of the tower. 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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Tower X, Pompeii. 1959. Looking east along the city walls towards the west side of the tower. 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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Tower X, Pompeii. 1959.
Looking north-east along the city walls towards the west side of the tower. 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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Tower X, Pompeii. 1959. Looking east from near Tower X, and across VI.15/16. 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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