The other side of the villa of the mysteries. The customer sofa (bored) comes out in Pompeii in search of favors – Naples – Arte.it

Napoli – For a waiting bank on the public road for the entrance door of the Villa Dei Misteri, some people, including workers and beggars, wait on the road that connects Pompeii with the modern forested, waiting for the bored landlord. While waiting, someone, to spend time, writes on the wall with a pointed object or with a piece of coal. A date, and perhaps also a name.
Are the customersPeople of a lower social level, in one way or another linked to an eminent nature of local society. They wait for the master. In exchange for favors, help with judicial issues and small or large loans, they assure him political support in the election rounds of the city council.

This would have been the image we would have seen, every morning in Pompeii unleashed the city of the city. And in the light of this, the discovery of a waiting bank came back for the entrance door of the villa, which became famous for the famous Dionysian theme frescoes who made the complex famous of the first reconnaissance in 1909/10, loaded with a further charm.

Villa Dei Mysteries, Bench and via Superior | Courtesy Archaeological Park or Pompeii

“During the long hours of waiting – the director of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel – explains – you often did not know if the owner would have received that day, perhaps the night before he had done the small hours and preferred to sleep, or he had something else to do. View of the Golf, who would have seen something like this in their lives.

Banks of this type, however, are not only for the houses of the owners. The same was sometimes placed for a Domus from Pompeii, as a medical office with the entire waiting room. One thing is certain: the busy banks were a reason for pride for the owner of the Domus, because more customers were waiting for the door, the more important he had to be the landlord.

The latter discovery is the result of the recent archaeological investigations that are carried out along the northwestern front of the Villa Dei Mysteries, as part of the excavation project and the safety of the area, restart after the reduction, thanks to an agreement with the public prosecutor, of the insulting building above.

The graffiti found in addition to the waiting sofa in front of the Villa Dei Misteri, Pompeii | Courtesy Archaeological Park or Pompeii

“De hervatting van archeologische opgravingen in de villa van de mysteries – legt de officier van justitie van de Republiek Torre Annunziata, Nunzio Fragliasso uit – mogelijk was dankzij de synergetische samenwerking tussen het archeologisch park van Pompeii en de openbare officier van de Implemental, in de implementatie van het protocol van het protocol. Handel van archeologische vondsten en op het gebied van de financiering From the demolition of the abuse works of works that work in the area in the area subject to archaeological limitations of the competence of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.

The excavation therefore acquires a double goal. On the one hand, if it serves to document clandestine excavations by supporting the public prosecutor in his research work, on the other hand it is a goal of carrying out the extension work in the twentieth century by bringing the then director of excavation MIIuri and the remaining part of the villa.

The recent excavations have already emphasized the monumental original entrance of the villa, located along the SO -Called via Superior, some rooms decorated in third Pompeisian style, with refined paints with a black and yellow background and decorative motifs, and identifying the still buried part of the Servile district. Above the large entrance door to the villa insisted on an arch (only partially stored), flanked by masonry Paracarri and a part of the Via Superior, paved in Lavastenen.
The presence of a Cocciopesto bank was identified right in front of the entrance. A rectangular Cistern Voltata insisted on the wall, apparently connected to a water collection and regimental of the water.

Stratigraphy Courtesy Archaeological Park or Pompeii

The excavation also made the stratigraphic order possible of the burst of 79 AD to arise, with levels of falling Pomic and pyroclastic streams in place that sealed the rooms of the villa. Part of the paleosuol arranged “with an” agricultural technique that testifies to the management of the agricultural landscape in Roman times, also came to the level of the level of the

The investigation will continue to allow the research of the environments, in particular the serviceable, still partially buried in the villa, to open new prospects for the study and improvement of one of the most famous and fascinating residential complexes of the old Pompeii.
In the meantime, the park is looking for money to finance the continuation of the excavation, whereby private partners and sponsors are also called by the activation of the fundraising office.