South Wall

Renée Forsell

The wall is built in op. incertum and consists mainly of limestone along with cruma and lava stones. There are also some terracotta and plaster spolia. The upper part of the wall is missing and there is a vertical crack in the upper west part of the wall.
There is a walled up door in the middle of the wall. Wall plaster can be seen continuing in to the wall on both sides of the former door opening. A layer of pinkish buff mortar covers the upper western part of the wall. Above the door opening there is another area of mortar, in part surrounded by support plaster. This patch of mortar is grey and almost certainly a modern repair.

Wall plaster is preserved on almost half of the wall. The largest part of wall plaster is located on the east part of the wall at the height of c. 0.70-3.70. It is 2.30 wide and covers almost half of the wall including a large part of the door opening. The upper part ends as the lower section of a plaster cornice. A small patch of plaster is located in the west corner at the height of c. 0.70-2.30.Finally there are small remains of plaster along the floor.
The decoration in this room was according to Mau made in the third style. Only faint remainder of this remains. Traces of a 1.0cm high, red horizontal band is visible in the lower east corner at the height of 0.75m, 0.04-0.25 from the east corner. Traces of a black dado are visible below it. Small remains of black plaster along the floor give further evidence of a black dado. There are also two vertical red bands. One is visible 1.32 from the E corner at the height of 1.03-1.30 and the other 2.27m from the E corner at the height of 1.23�1.50m. There are also traces of a vertical green band along the edge of the wall in the east corner.