South Wall

Thomas Staub

S wall: width: 1.80 m, max. preserved height: 4.30 m (in south west corner, else 3.20 m). The lower parts covered with plaster (max. height: 1.30 m), upper parts covered by modern concrete, except for the south western corner, where a part between 1.95 and 3.40 m height still preserves plaster with colour fragments and a simple profiled stucco-frieze in 3.10 m height. The middle part of the wall is taken up by the semi-circular altar, width: 0.65 m, depth: 0.45 m and height: 0.95 m (upper 0.05 m modern), according to the line in the plaster originally probably 0.90 m high. The altar, made of mixed materials (Sarno stone, cruma and lava), seems to abut against an older layer of plaster. The wall seems to have been built in opus incertum of lava in the lower parts, in the upper parts, the modern concrete hampers a determination of the used material. The western upper part seems to consist mainly of Sarno stones of dimensions between 0.05 and 0.20 m².