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Casa delle Pareti Gialle

The long facade with windows of rooms 7 - 3 - 8 is called west wall.

Plan of the Casa delle Pareti Gialle.


G0216 - A GRID

- Room 3: lines forming a grid.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0202 - A SPHERE

- Room 4, south wall.

Interpretation: it looks as though a mistake has been made in this drawing, which as a result has not been completed.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0203 - A SPHERE

- Room 4, south wall.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0204 - A SPHERE

- Room 4, south wall.

- ICCD N005423
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0756 - A SPHERE

- Room 4, south wall.

- Harp 2015


G0757 - A SPHERE

- Room 4, south wall.
- For an incorrect drawing of three of the spheres see Langner 2001, nr. 143-145, at 0.40 - 0.60 from the floor, diam. 0.20 - 0.23.

Interpretation: an unfinished sphere.

- Harp 2015


G0219 - A DATE?

- Room 4, east wall: XIIK?

Interpretation: the beginning of a date?

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0221 - GREEK TEXT

- Room 5, north wall.

Interpretation: three lines of Greek text; surely an experienced Greek philologist can crack this one.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0222 = G0467 - TWO DATES

- Room 5, north wall. Very similar to G0212, but not identical: K V APR V IDVS | IVLIAS.

Interpretation: dates, one using the wrong order, March 28th and July 11th.

- ICC N005424
- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0223 - A NUMBER AND TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, north wall: XXXVI and tally marks.

- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Mary Jane Cuyler 2013
- Harp 2015


G0758 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, north wall.

- Harp 2015


G0759 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, west wall.

- Harp 2015


G0760 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, south (?) wall.

- Harp 2015


G0761 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, south (?) wall.

- Harp 2015


G0762 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, south wall.

- Harp 2015


G0763 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 5, east wall.

- Harp 2015


G0205 - THE MAIN SAIL

- Room 6, east wall.

Interpretation: the rigging of the main sail of a ship, with the main mast and the yard.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0211 - GREEK TEXT

- Room 6, south wall.

Interpretation: three lines of Greek text.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0212 - TWO DATES

- Room 6, south wall. Very similar to G0222, but not identical: K V A? IVNIVS | IVLIAS.

Interpretation: is someone practicing his dates?

- ICCD N005420
- ICCD N005421
- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0764 - NUMBERS AND TALLY MARKS

- Room 6, south wall.

- Harp 2015


G0765 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 6, south wall.

- Harp 2015


G0200 - A NAME AND A COLUMN

- Room 7, south wall: MAX. , in a tabula ansata. Modern filling in the right part of the tabula. To the left an object looking like a column.
- Langner 2001, nr. 2288: at 0.90 from the floor, h. 0.10.

Interpretation: presumably the first few letters of a name.

- Eric Taylor
- Langner
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015 (text and column)
- Harp 2015 (column)


G0201 - AN OBELISK

- Room 7, south wall, not identical to G0200.
- Langner 2001, nr. 2289: at 0.60 from floor, h. 0.12.

Interpretation: apparently an obelisk, with a few inscribed X's.

- Eric Taylor
- Langner
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0213 - AN EMPTY TABULA ANSATA

- Room 7, south wall.

- Eric Taylor
- Anmation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0215 - GREEK TEXT

- Room 7, east wall.

Interpretation: two lines of Greek text.

- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0218 - SMALL TALLY MARKS AND TEXT

- Room 8, east wall.

- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Harp 2015


G0766 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 8, east wall.

- Harp 2015


G0767 - TALLY MARKS

- Room 8, south wall.

- Harp 2015