East Wall

Thomas Staub

E wall: width 3.30 m, max. preserved height 3.70 m. For the door and door framings, see description, room i, west wall. Also on this side, the northern part of the upper zone of the wall is reconstructed in modern times. The southern part of the wall is made of a mixed opus incertum with mainly lava, set into a yellowish mortar, but containing cruma, Sarno stone, tuff and reused pieces of brick and plaster as well (dimensions of the stones: 0.05 x 0.05 m - 0.15 x 0.10 m). In the southern part of the wall, at 2.15 m height, a groove is cut into the wall, running from the corner to 1.30 m towards the north, slightly downwards (height at its northern end: 2.10 m, width 0.03 m, depth 0.05 m).