VII.8 Pompeii. Forum South Side. Foro Civile, Lato Sud. Südseite des Forums.

Excavated 1813.

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VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2018.

Looking north-east across Forum, from south-west corner of Forum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2014. Looking west along line of columns in south-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2014. Detail of top of column in south-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2007. Detail of top of column in south-west corner.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2014. Detail of top of column in south-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2007. Detail of top of column in south-west corner.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2018. Looking north-east from south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

On the west side, centre left, the columns of the Forum were replaced.

On the south side, on the right, the original columns of the portico still remain.

“The ancient portico of the Forum of Pompeii, of tufa covered with stucco, of Greek (Doric) style, in later times was largely replaced, or it probably all had to be, by a portico in that limestone, called travertine in Naples, of heavier and less beautiful form, but of more solid and perfect construction.

On the entire west side, the ancient portico was demolished – still recognizable by the bases remaining in place – and they built or began to build the new one. On the south side, and on that part of the east side that is south of the road called Via dell'Abbondanza, the ancient portico remained.”

(L’antico portico del Foro di Pompei, di tufo rivestito di stucco, di stile greco (dorico), in epoca posteriore fu in gran parte rimpiazzato, o doveva esserlo probabilmente tutto, da un portico in quella pietra calcare che a Napoli si chiama travertino di forme più pesanti e poco belle, ma di costruzione più solida e perfetta. Sul intera lato ovest fu demolito l’antico portico – riconoscibile ancora dalle basi rimaste al posto – e costruito, o cominciato a costruire quello nuovo. Sul lato sud, e su quello parte del lato est che sta a sud della strada detta – dell’Abbondanza, rimase il portico antico.)

See Mau, in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 06, 1891, (p.168).

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. May 2010. Looking towards west side of Forum, on left, and south side, on right.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. July 2021. Looking east from Basilica across south end of Forum.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2018. Looking east across south side of Forum, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2014. Detail from upper colonnade near south-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. July 1980. Looking east across south end of Forum, from Basilica.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2020. Looking east along south side, with doorways at VIII.2.7/8/9/10. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. May 2010. Looking east from south-west corner.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. C.1819. Drawing by W. Gell, "FORVM. Done in a visit with Eustace and Bankes". Looking east along south side of Forum. 

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819], pl. 33.

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VII.8 Pompeii Forum. 1912.

 Looking east along south side, from south-west corner, with the colonnade of Popidius, on the right.

Photo by Esther Boise Van Deman (c) American Academy in Rome. VD_Archive_Ph_235.

According to Van Buren –

“The colonnade of Popidius, which antedates the Roman colony, occupies all the South end and the southern part of the eastern side, and on the western side there are traces of it almost to the northern extremity.”

See Van Buren, Albert William. The Changes in the Forum due to the Roman Colonists. Part VI in Memoirs of American Academy in Rome, 1918, (p.75).

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. 1870s -1880s stereo view of south side, looking east along colonnade of Popidius. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2014. Looking east along south portico of Forum.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2019. Looking north-east along south portico of Forum.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2019.

Masonry pillar with embedded column on south side of forum, near entrance VII.8.9.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2019.

Rear of masonry pillar with embedded column on south side of forum, near entrance VII.8.9.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2014. Looking east along south portico of Forum.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2014. Looking east along south portico of Forum.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2020. Looking south-east along colonnade of Popidius on south side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. September 2018. Looking south-east along south side.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii, south side of forum March 2019.

Looking east along ancient portico columns of colonnade of Popidius.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. south side of forum. March 2019. Portico, looking east.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. March 2019.

Looking east along columns of portico towards south-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2018. Looking north from south side of Forum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. October 2014. Looking north through portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. March 2014. Looking north through upper portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum, south side. September 2018. Looking south to ancient portico.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. October 2014. Looking south-west from north side of portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. March 2019. Detail of ancient portico, looking south.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. March 2019. Detail of ancient portico.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2018.  Detail from upper ancient portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. March 2019. Detail of ancient portico.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. March 2019. Detail of ancient portico.

Foto Anne Kleineberg, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. August 2021. Looking west along colonnade of Popidius on south side of Forum. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.

VIII.2. Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking south-west at Via delle Scuole (left) and the corner of VIII.2 on the south side of the Forum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. December 2018. Looking west across south wall of Forum, from portico. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2020. Looking west along south side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. October 2020. Looking west along south side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.8 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking west along south side of forum from near steps at VIII.2.10, centre left.  

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. Looking east along south side, with steps at VIII.2.10, upper right.

Photo by permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx208im 051. Source ID 44377.

See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1941, p.403, where this photo is entitled

“Foundation structures of the internal colonnade along the southern ambulatory of the Forum”.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2009. Excavation outside VIII.2.10 on south side of Forum.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2009. Excavation outside VIII.2.10 on south side of Forum.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. March 2009. Excavation outside VIII.2.10 on south side of Forum.

VII.8 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking west along south side of forum.  

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii. South side of forum. October 2014. Looking west along south side of portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. September 2005. South side, looking west. The double row of columns formed the colonnade of Popidius.

According to John Dobbins this was probably constructed under Roman oversight in the early years of the Sullan period, 89-80 BC.

In the 1899 English version by Mau, it states:

Near the southeast corner an inscription was found:

V[ibius] Popidius Ep[idii] f[ilius] q[aestor] porticus faciendas coeravit

'Vibius Popidius, the son of Epidius, when quaestor caused this colonnade to be erected.'

See Mau, A., 1899, translated by Kelsey, F. W., Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 50).

In the 1908, German version, it says “south-west corner”.

“V. Popidius Ep. f. q. porticus faciendas coeravit, so lautet eine in der Nähe der Südwestecke gefundene Inschrift.“

See Mau, A., 1908. Pompeji in Leben und Kunst, Leipzig: Engelmann, (p. 47.)

The Naples museum information card for the plaque says “Pompeii, from the area in front of the Basilica (1814)”.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. Inscription from the colonnade of Popidius.

The museum information card says “Pompeii, from the area in front of the Basilica (1814)”.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this reads

V(ibius) Popidius / Ep(pi) f(ilius) q(uaestor) / porticus / faciendas / coeravit      [CIL X, 794]

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 3825.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. September 2005. Looking west along the south side.

VII.8 Pompeii Forum. c.1819. Drawing by W. Gell, looking west along south side of Forum towards Basilica.

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819], pl. 27.

See book in Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art [France], collections Jacques Doucet Gell Dessins 1817-1819

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