II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra or Palestra.

Excavated 1814 to 1816, 1933 and 1935 to 1939.

(Originally when excavated, this was numbered as Reg. II, Insula 10).

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. July 2021.

Looking south-west across Piazzale Anfiteatro, towards entrance doorways with II.7.5, on right.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.7.5 Pompeii, on right. September 2024.

Looking west on Piazzale Anfiteatro towards legionaries with swords raised and the Palaestra during “Ludi Pompeiani” event. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

II.7.3 Pompeii, on left, II.7.4 in centre. September 2024.

Looking south-west on Piazzale Anfiteatro towards Palaestra with legionaries on parade during “Ludi Pompeiani” event.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. December 2018.

Looking south-west across Piazzale Anfiteatro, towards entrance doorways with II.7.5, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. October 2017. Entrance, looking north.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.7.5 Pompeii. October 2017. Entrance, detail from north end of east side of Palaestra.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.7.5 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south along east exterior wall, from entrance doorway.

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. July 2021. Looking west towards entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Corner of east and north walls.

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. May 2010. North portico with remains of painted wall plaster.

According to Maiuri –

“The only wall of the portico that, at the moment of the eruption, preserved its pictorial decoration, was the wall of the north portico, the one which, however, was found completely fallen, other than the last short stretch of just over 14 metres at the far north-east corner.

On the other two long walls of the west and south porticos, and the wall on the east side, nothing was seen other than a minimum trace of decoration.”

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1939, (p.184)

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. Design of the reconstructed pictorial decoration.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1939, (p.185).

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. May 2024. Remaining wall decoration from north portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

II.7.5 Pompeii. Palaestra. December 2006. Looking towards north portico with remains of wall paintings.

II.7.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking along north portico.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking along north portico.

II.7.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Wall painting in north portico.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Wall painting on north portico.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west along the north portico.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west along north portico.

II.7.5 Pompeii. June 1962. Looking south-west from north portico.

Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods

(P43.8 POMPEII The Great Palaestra)

II.7.5 Pompeii. 1961. Looking towards the north-west corner, with plaster-casts of tree roots. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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II.7 Pompeii. 1957. Plaster cast of tree-root. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south across plaster casts of ancient plane tree roots.

At the time of the AD79 eruption the double row of plane trees were almost 100 years old.

According to Maiuri –

“Completely essential to the life and function of the Palestra were the trees.

Cavities of large roots and remains in the ash bank of logs and branches, were not only noticed in the work of excavation of the earth and clean-up of the area of the amphitheater piazza, but they were also along the large avenue that runs outside the northern side of the building, and what is more important, in the inner area of the Palestra.”

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1939, (p.193)

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south across plaster casts of ancient plane tree roots.

At the time of the AD79 eruption the double row of plane trees were almost 100 years old.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Showing the replanted double row of plane trees, looking south.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south along east wall of Palaestra, from near II.7.5. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

II.7.5 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south-west across Piazzale Anfiteatro, along east wall of Palaestra.

II.7.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-west across Piazzale Anfiteatro, along east wall of Palaestra.

II.7.5 Pompeii, on left. October 2017. Looking west along the exterior north wall of Palaestra.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.7.5 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking west along the exterior north wall of Palaestra, towards II.7.6 and II.7.7.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west along the north wall.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Unnumbered entrance on north wall before II.7.6.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Unnumbered openings on north wall before II.7.6.

II.7.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Unnumbered openings on north wall before II.7.6.