VIII.7.16 Pompeii. Gladiators Barracks or Caserma dei Gladiatori or Quadriporticus of the theatre.

Excavated 1766 to 1769, 1774, 1779, 1791 to 1794 and 1814.

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VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance to broad staircase to rooms on the second storey.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Broad staircase that would have led to rooms on the upper floor.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Broad staircase to rooms on the second storey.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. July 1826. Sketch by P.A. Poirot, looking south towards south-east corner

See Poirot, P. A., 1826. Carnets de dessins de Pierre-Achille Poirot. Tome 2 : Pompeia, pl. 45.

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VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north along east side from south-east corner.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. Looking north along east portico, described as Quartiere dei soldati - Pompei.

Photograph No. 405, by Roberto Rive, (18..-1889). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. From an album by Roberto Rive, dated 1868. Looking north along east side. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. From an album of Michele Amodio dated 1874, entitled “Pompei, destroyed on 23 November 79, discovered in 1745”.

Looking north along east side. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north-west from south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north-west from south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to room on the east side, with new door.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Interior of reconsolidated room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Interior of room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to one of the rooms in the south-east corner.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Rooms in the south-east corner.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Room on the east side in south-east corner.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015.

Staircase on the east side and room on the south side in south-east corner.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Staircase on the east side and room on the south side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to staircase on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015. Staircase on the east side

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Staircase on the east side.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on the south side in the south-east corner.

This doorway would have led into the room that was the original entry into the excavations, see Sogliano below.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. July 2012. Entrance doorway in south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Eric Poehler.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. c.1907-1908. Photograph titled “Attuale entrata dal ludo gladiatorio”.

Looking north towards entrance doorway into small room at exterior south-east corner of Gladiator’s Barracks.

This would have been an original entry to excavations of Pompeii.

According to Sogliano –

“………..and the very petty and inconvenient entry into Pompeii, made a few years ago, from a narrow corner of the Ludo Gladiatorium.  I will take care of this last filthy situation immediately, transferring the entrance to the Porta di Stabia, in the same way as one accesses the excavations by the Porta Marina and the Porta Nola.”

See Sogliano, A. (1908). Dei lavori eseguiti in Pompei dal 1 Aprile 1907 a tutto Giugno 1908. (p. 16 and fig.7).

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. July 2012.

Looking north towards exterior of entrance doorway in south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Eric Poehler.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. September 2015.

Looking south across room in south-east corner towards original entrance doorway, and staircase to upper floor.

VIII.7.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Staircase to upper floor from room on the south side.

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