South Wall

Thomas Staub

S wall: width 3.40 m, max. preserved height 2.30 m (above 1.80 m modern reconstruction), with one door opening at each corner towards room e, the western one 0.75 m wide, 1.80 m high (up until modern door lintel), the eastern one 0.80 m wide and 1.80 m high (again up until modern door lintel). The lower and upper parts of the wall are covered by modern concrete; the area in between (0.90 - 1.35 m) consists of opus incertum of mainly Sarno stone, set into reddish mortar. The eastern doorframe of the western door (the western frame is the west wall of rooms d and e) is constructed of smaller blocks of Sarno stone and cruma (max. 0.20 x 0.30 m) and is covered by modern concrete. The same building technique and material is used for the western frame of the eastern door, whereas the eastern frame of that door is mainly made of larger Sarno stone blocks, being the south frame of the rear entrance V 1,9 as well. Only in the lowest part (up to 0.70 m height), a modern pilaster of bricks is erected against the Sarno stone blocks (ca. 0.27 x 0.27 m). The width of the blocks is 0.45 m, the heights are from bottom to top: 1.00 m, 0.45 m (stretching into the east wall of room e), 0.50 m, 0.90 m (here at the bottom in carving for the door lintel), and, finally, 0.45 m. The edge towards room e is flaked off for 0.10 x 0.10 m up until the height of 1.45 m.