South Wall
Description
Thomas Staub
South wall: width: 3.35 m, max. preserved height: 3.00 - 3.40 m (in the south east corner). No remains of plaster are preserved and much of the surface is covered with modern concrete. In the western part, approx. 2.30 m from the south east corner, an uprising part, from floor level up to a height of 1.10 m at the opening to the anteroom, consists of lava-incertum with reddish mortar, the remaining part of mixed materials. Broken and hewn pieces of Sarno stone, cruma, lava, tuff, travertine, spolias of rough plaster, of reddish mortar and of tiles (dimensions up to 0.15 x 0.15 m) are used, and the material of the mortar is hidden under the modern concrete.
South wall of the anteroom: width: 0.70 m (together with doorpost to room 6, 1.18 m), max. preserved height: 3.10 m. This wall is, above a height of 1.90 m, covered with modern concrete. In its lower part, the lava-incertum, visible up to a height of 1.10 m in room 6, continues up to a height of 1.70 m, without any marking for the opening between the two parts of this room. Above the lava, up to the area covered with modern concrete, also some pieces of red cruma are visible, all set into the reddish mortar.
