North Wall
Description
Thomas Staub
Anteroom 17:
N wall: The north wall is made up by the lower part of the staircase (5 steps) to the upper floor (width 0.70 m, height 1.00 m, depth 0.75 m at the top). The upper parts of the stairs were probably made of wood. The stair is in parts damaged and repaired in modern times. It contains a mix of different materials as Sarno stone, pieces of brick, ceramic shards and cruma, at least partly set into the reddish mortar (visible on its eastern flank).
Room 17: N wall: width 2.60 m, max. preserved height 2.70 m at the north-west corner, else 1.10 m, depth only 0.25 m (in comparison to the walls of atrium 4, depth 0.40 m, wall between ala 14 and cubiculum 15, 0.30 m, wall between cubiculum 8 and ala 9, 0.30 - 0.35 m). The wall is bound to the staircase socle. The wall consists of a mixture of different material: small blocks and rubble of Sarno stone, lava, cruma, tuff and spolias of pavement and reddish mortar, partly covered by modern concrete. The corner towards the stairs is constructed of two Sarno stone blocks, the first as a stander (0.25 x 0.60 m) and the second as a layer (0.50 x 0.40 m).
