1. Public Buildings Temples Tombs Streets Gates
Pompeii
Public Buildings
Temples
Tombs
Streets
Gates

2. Before the eruption Pompeii was a place we would recognise
Before the eruption Pompeii was a place we would recognise. It was a happening place – a bit like Worcester Park – not. You could buy a massive pad and entertain in style. Or you could live in a simple room and eat out. You could go for a meal, have a bath, hang out with your friends, go to the theatre, play sport, write on walls or really indulge yourself. You could make money in manufacturing or commerce. You could be elected to public office. Anything you wanted was for sale. There were stacks of shops – a whole empires worth of imported luxuries or just a loaf of bread It had a public meeting place, city walls, temples and tombs. You would be proud to live there – and the water was free

5. THE FORUM Massive area covered in marble – impressed visitors Statues
Law courts
Shops and stalls
Making political speeches at elections – a suggestum was a platform for orators
Hanging out with friends and meeting business partners
Weights and measures
Temples and baths
The Comitum – buildings for elections for magistrates
The Eumachia – Meeting for the guild of dyers and fullers

6. The forum before the eruption

7. The forum today

8. Statue of eumachia

9. The Eumachia

10. A Suggestum

11. THE MAECELLUM A square shaped market selling food
An open area surrounded with Stalls and shops.
In the middle a tholos – domed roof on columns. Possibly for weights and measures or for fresh fish

12. The Maecellum

13. The Maecellum – showing the tholos

14. A massive public building used as the seat of government.
THE BASILICA
A massive public building used as the seat of government.
Damaged in the earthquake 17 years before and not in use at the time of the eruption.

15. The basilicia

16. THE TEMPLES
Romans worshiped many Gods and liked to keep them all sweet – you never know.
Temple of Jupiter
Temple of Apollo
Temple of Isis – an Egyptian goddess
Temple of Venus
Temple of Augustus – a Roman Emperor - badly damaged in the AD62 earthquake
Temple of Vespasian – a Roman Emperor
Household shrines
Sanctuary of the public Lares – shrine to everyone’s ancestors – may have been a library
A possible cross carved in a private home.

17. TEMPLE OF APOLLO

18. Temple of Apollo

19. Temple of Jupiter

20. Temple of Vespasian

21. Temple of Isis

22. Temple of Venus

23. TOMBS
You couldn’t be buried within the city walls it had to be outside
This was partly religious belief and partly hygiene but mainly space.
The rich were cremated the poor were probably left to rot
Rich people had tombs outside the city in the street of the tombs
Many rich people preferred to endow a public building rather than have a big tomb

28. Water supply Came from the hills via aquaducts
Supplied public baths, some private homes and drinking fountains for everyone
In time of drought they were cut off in that order so everyone could still drink from the fountain.

30. Streets Paved streets Flat slabs – replaced when they got rutted
Pavements of a sort of cement made from ground down pottery – recycling Roman style
Water was sloshed down them – they got a bit dirty so there were crossing stones.
They were bustling crowded places

32. Gates
Pompeii was surrounded by a three kilometre wall. Although major attack was unlikely it kept thieves out.
It had seven gates with watch towers.
Marina Gate
Herculeneum Gate
Nola Gate
Vesuvius Gate
Sarno Gate
Nocera Gate
Stabia Gate
These would have been checked during the day and closed at night.

33. The Marina gate