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Her0043 House of the Wooden Partition
House 5 on the map is the House of the Wooden Partition named after the sliding wooden doors that separate off the atrium from the next room. Herculaneum. Her0043 shows the atrium and the impluvium. You can see the black wooden doors at the top of the photo. They are black because they are the original wood and they were carbonized by the pyroclastic surge that whipped through there before burying them in the flow. These doors actually still slide on their original bronze tracks. Her0044 is a close-up of the surface of the carbonized wood door. Her0042 is a picture of the skylight (compluvium) in the atrium lined with terra cotta flashing and the downspouts are in the form of dogs’ heads.

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· 6/24/2006 · Views: 1940 ·
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