North Wall

Thomas Staub

N wall: width 3.30 m, max. preserved height 3.80 m (over the cocciopesto floor level). Door to room h: width 1.12 m, height (above threshold): 2.03 m. For the doorframes, see description, west wall and room h, south wall, max. two blocks are stretching into the north wall. The upper part of the eastern doorframe, the lintel and the area above, are modern reconstructions, continuing further to the east, in a rising line up to 0.10 m under the upper edge of the wall.
The lower parts of the wall (up to between 0.80 and 1.20 m over floor level) are covered with plaster; the zone above is reconstructed in modern times until 1.00 m from north-east corner, where the antique structures are preserved up to 3.70 m height. Where the masonry is visible in this part of the wall, it consists of a mixed opus incertum containing Sarno stone, cruma, lava, and reused parts of pavement, set into a greyish-yellowish mortar. A 1.20 m wide area next to the north-east corner, between 2.10 m and 3.30 m height, is covered with a yellowish plaster, into which shards of ceramic, bricks and pieces of the perforated bipedales (as the ones set against the wall in ala 14) are pressed. Directly under this plastered zone, a hole is made into the wall at the corner (diam. ca. 0.17 m). Since the following part first is covered by modern concrete and then is a modern reconstruction, we do not know whether that hole might be the easternmost of a row of beam holes. The height of its position corresponds with the two holes observed in the south wall.
The north wall seems to abut against the east wall.