North Wall
Description
A. Karivieri & R. Forsell
North wall
The wall is located between 26c, 24b and 23c. It has an east-west orientation.
Description:
The wall is built in opus incertum and consists mostly of limestone, some lava, cruma, and some pieces of terracotta. In the northeast corner an area that is ca 0.95 m wide and 0.80 m high shows two layers of construction. The layer between the heights of 0.40-0.80 m above floor level, includes several spolia, a large cocciopesto piece, terracotta, limestone and horizontal layers of wall plaster. In the northeastern corner there is a ca 0.20 m wide area of original wall where plaster coating is preserved.
Wall-plaster:
There are remains of wall plaster preserved up to the height of 1.60 m. The background is white with a red stripe in the west corner and vertical and horizontal stripes towards the centre.
State of preservation:
The upper part is missing and the uppermost part is reconstructed.
The modern restoration reaches from 1.60 m upward.
Observations:
Remains of modern supporting plaster show that there must have been larger areas of wall plaster left in the eastern part of the wall. We cannot see any evidence of a door opening towards 24b as published in the plan of Eschebach.
Dimensions: l. 3.82 m; h. 4.15 m.
