North Wall
Description
Henrik Boman & Monika Nilsson
The wall crumbled in the earthquake of 1980 and, as we have seen in V 1,14, we only can identify the lower parts of the wall as ancient.
The remains are built in opus incertum, without any specific features. The western part of the wall, the façade to Via del Vesuvio is today completely destroyed and only the ending of opus incertum in the modern reconstruction remains.
The wall, as well as as the short façade wall, was standing high prior to the 1943 bombing, and today it is completely destroyed.
The eastern part of the opus incertum wall abuts the ashlar wall between the door into the atrium and V 1,14, which makes the doorframe of the N wall to the atrium ashlar built. The blocks do not bound to the incertum wall, but, as seen in room V 1,14i, there are cuttings in the lime stone blocks for the adaptation to the incertum wall, placing the walls in the same construction phase.
The measurements of the north wall are L: 4.30 m and H: 1.23 m.
