Pompeii Street View. Via del Foro. South to North.

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Via del Foro between VII.5 and VII.4. Looking north towards Vesuvius, from top of scaffolding in shop VII.9.9 on the Forum. 

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

Via del Foro. December 2007. East side. Looking north-east from roof of VII.5.19.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. 1959. Looking north towards arch at beginning of Via di Mercurio. 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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Via del Foro. Late 19th - early 20th century postcard.

Looking north to the junction with Via di Mercurio, ahead through the Arch of Caligula, named on postcard as Arch of Nero.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro. c.1880-1890. G. Sommer no. 1255.

Looking north to the junction with Via di Mercurio through the Arch of Caligula. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. Album dated January 1874.

Looking north towards the junction with Via di Mercurio, and Arch. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via di Mercurio, Pompeii. September 2018.

Looking north through the Arch of Caligula from junction with Via del Foro. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Via del Foro. Undated photograph by Mauri, numbered 008.

Looking north towards the Arch and Via Mercurio, from Via del Foro. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro, on right, with Temple of Fortuna Augusta at its junction with Via della Fortuna. Looking east.

Photograph by M. Amodio, from an album dated April 1878. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro between VII.4 and VII.5. March 2009.

Looking south from crossroads at northern end with Via di Mercurio, Via delle Terme and Via della Fortuna.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-west along west side, from VII.5.29. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Via del Foro, lower left, at junction with Via delle Terme, on right. December 2018.

Looking south-west towards VII.5.29, on left side of pilaster in centre of photo. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Via del Foro between VII.4 and VII.5. September 2005.

Looking south from crossroads at northern end with Via di Mercurio, Via delle Terme and Via della Fortuna.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. 4th April 1980, pre-earthquake. Looking south. Photo courtesy of Tina Gilbert.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. May 1934, from an album of the Nierhoff family vacation.

Looking south on Via Foro. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. From an album dated 1928.

Looking south between VII.4, on left and VII.5, on right. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro between VII.4 and VII.5. Drawing of 1832.

Looking south from crossroads at northern end with Via di Mercurio, Via delle Terme and Via della Fortuna.

Via del Foro. December 2005. East side. Looking south along colonnade outside VII.4.4.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. November 1961.

Looking north towards east side of roadway with colonnade on VII.4, with Temple of Fortuna, in background. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro. June 2012. West side. Looking south from outside VII.5.23. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

Via del Foro. 1940’s. Looking south towards the Forum. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro, Pompeii. Undated photo (c.1900-1920). Looking south through Arch of Caligula towards Forum.

On the right is the area now occupied by the Restaurant.  Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Via del Foro? Or nearby. Between 1819 and 1832, sketches by William Gell.

These may or may not be from here but are described mainly as being in and around “Street north end of Forum”, and “In the street leading from Forum to Pansa’s house.

Then at the lower end is a note regarding the sketches on the underside, but no location given, other than the “scandalous chamber” or “scandalous house”, so we must assume that no location is known, (see below). 

See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 74.

Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique Num MS180 (2).

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(These have also been entered at VII.6.14).

Via del Foro or nearby? Between 1819 and 1832, sketches by William Gell.

(Note -These may or may not be from here.)

Graffiti inscribed with a nail on the wall, and drawings from the walls of the “scandalous chamber”.

See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 74 verso.

Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique Num MS180 (2).

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Plan of Forum area, c.1819, drawn by H. Wilkins.

VI.6.1, Pansa’ House is shown at the top of the straight roadway leading down towards the Forum.

This would seem to show that the way between the north end of the Forum and Pansa’s House (as mentioned in the Gell drawings above) would have been along the line of the (present) Vicolo delle Terme.

Perhaps the drawings were from the north side of Vicolo dei Soprastanti (VII.5.14-17) or as already mentioned from VII.6.14/15. 

Only a small section of the Via del Foro on the north-east side of the Forum would appear to have been excavated, as yet.

See Wilkins H, 1819. Suite de Vues Pittoresques des Ruines de Pompei, Rome, p.5, Pl. II.

Enlargement of plan of Forum area, c.1810, drawn by W. Gell.

On this plan, on the north-west side of the Forum, the roadway of Vicolo delle Terme is more clearly shown as well as the excavated buildings along the north and east side of VII.6, as well as the buildings on the south side of VII.5 on Vicolo dei Soprastanti (VII.5.14-17)

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. 81.

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See Dessales, H. (2019). Recueils de William Gell – Pompei, publiée et inédite, 1801-1829. Paris : Hermann, p.158-159, (pl.81) & (p.210).

(These have also been entered in to VII.6.14/15).

Via del Foro or nearby? Erotic scene with inscription "ad ... sic Amilliu (s)" [CIL IV 2510]

Graffiti inscribed with a nail on the wall, and drawings from the walls of the “scandalous chamber”.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 25689.

According to BDI, 1841, -

“At another point of the same Strada della Fortuna and precisely facing the grand Casa di Pansa, some new houses have been returned to the light that stretch out towards the Vicolo delle Terme and which were already unearthed from 1757 to 1761, and then recovered again, like the Casa called “of Cicero” and the Casa dell’Imperadore Giuseppe II. Nothing significant has been found in these houses, but from the Vicolo delle Terme one entered into a new lupanare, adjacent to them. On the wall facing to where one entered into the first room, formed like a shop, a naked Venus was painted, almost to tempt the competition, and various obscene compositions, now for the most part faded and shabby, which decorated the side walls of the large room, and the small neighbouring ones………..” 

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1841, (p. 118).

(Also entered in VII.6.14.)

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