North Wall

A. Karivieri & R. Forsell

The wall is built in op. incertum and consists mainly of limestone, some yellow tuff, lava and cruma. The uppermost part is rebuilt with limestone, cruma and some lava. There is a door opening in the western end leading in to the North house corridor d’. A refilled hole is visible in the upper eastern corner of the wall.


Wall-plaster: Only plaster coating is left in the dado while there are remains of wall painting in the middle and upper zone. The middle zone has remains of red colour. The upper zone is yellow. A red predella is faintly visible between the dado and middle zone. The middle zone is framed with horizontal borders, the lower slightly higher then the upper.
The plaster coating in the middle zone eastern corner has streaks of red colour.
The cork model in the archaeological museum in Naples show the wall as red with a white central panel. The upper zone showed an architectural vista on a white background.

State of preservation: The upper part of the wall missing. The uppermost part of the wall is reconstructed. There are remains of wall-plaster on the wall but the motif is no longer visible.