Wooden furniture of Herculaneum preserved from Vesuvius

Thanks to the eruption of Aus Herculanum it is one of the best

preserved

cities of the ancient world and has so much

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furniture

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preserved

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buildings that you have never seen until now Let's explore some of the most amazing wooden objects from Herculanum. and from the ancient roman world, vvus pyroclastic flows covered

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to a depth of up to 25 m, covering the coast changing it forever and covering the city and because of this level of conservation, we have a lot of wood visible on the site, we see preserved stairs in charred wood. We see the multi-story reconstructions and the restorers of the '30s and '40s actually kept a lot of that wood on the upper decks.

Here are some wooden beams for the overhangs in front of the shops and doors. Lentils still on charred wood. This is what makes herculanum so special when you enter the spaces you can look up and many times see the blackened pieces of wood that once extended to support the floors on the upper floors but from this place some

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is displayed Incredibly well preserved they are now in their lanium but are in portii a pleasant walk down the street and a magnificent palace. I want to take you and show you some of the most amazing things you've ever seen that come from the ancient world.

What is extraordinary about this is Wood is rarely preserved, we need special conditions to preserve wood, but here is an example. We are going to see some things that have not existed anywhere else in the world since the time Herculaneum was destroyed by vu. First, just a few words about. The protagonists, the anonymous heroes of this story, were made today by the Carpenters and had several associations. First we see this image of a store in Pompeii and the second is a marble relief from the association in charge of also caring for the CT statue of Jupiter Opus Maximus.

On the capital hill many times we have these records in this case artistic representations of the Carpenters but now we can see the work of those Carpenters of these Works in Herculanum we start with this small boat found in the western basin of Herculanum and there are two very interesting elements preserved: the straight bow painted with the red paint still visible and this other object is the vertical winch that was used to pull the ships to land. We now move on to an extraordinary element made of wood found in the Telos relief house and we can see the modern ceiling covering the room where the original wooden ceiling was washed into the sea by the eruption of Vesuvius from the excavations of 2009 and 2010 now. we have a reconstruction of that wooden ceiling with vibrant colors and we see where the Reconstruction came from in this beautiful inlaid wooden coffered ceiling and we see that some of those colors are still vibrant, the Egyptian blue and even the red, this was a great find and is made of fur wood, it really is something extraordinary recently discovered in Herculaneum.

Here is a bed made of spruce wood with headboard, it was found in a shop in room number 10 of Orientalis 2 Insula and it is something extraordinary to see it made by hand with some inlaid wooden elements, think how rare it is. It is a true highlight of Herculaneum. here is another Herculaneum rarity made of white fur and rosewood, we have the small table and the surprising thing about this level of conservation is that we can see here quite clearly the inary that we are used to seeing opt inary in marble, now here I have it with variety of woods here is a wooden object that looks like it was made yesterday made of oak this is a crib for a baby and it is found in Marcus's house pilus penisus grananas and what is so sad about the story is in the room with the crib where five adult skeletons and the skeletal remains of a baby were found, so we can imagine that all those people were once huddled in this room with this baby, the child's room and finally they all met their fate and this was excavated. between March 26 and 28, 1940 here is a bench that looks like it could have been made today it was found in the dean maximum of

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now let's take a look at this Lurar Sanctuary made of wood with Luna marble capitals painted red and it is made from leather and poplar wood and we see how heavily charred the wood is and of course there have been years and years of restoration over the decades.

It was found in the black room house and we have several idols that were worshiped in on the left here we see a large figure and on the right probably a genie of the house here is another impressive larium on top of a heavily restored cabinet at the base here this It is located in the wooden larium house and what we have then is the reconstructed covering but the elements that were found in the archaeological site have been replaced inside like here in the larium the statuette of Hercules and a statuette of Isis Fortuna TK pictured on the right this is really something to behold and enjoy you have the left door still on its hinges and as you turn up we can see some of the wooden inlays in the larium space.

This really gives us an idea of ​​the quality of craftsmanship available in the Roman world. Here we have two wooden figures, the figurine of a male figure and on the right a female figure, they come from two different places, but together they probably both had religious associations. Here we have from Herculaneum a beautiful remains of the wax tablet, so a layer of wax would have been inserted inside this wooden frame and you would write on it with your stylus. Here we have a wooden box that was used as a wallet and was inlaid with bronze and silver and there is the pile of coins that were found next to it.

This was found in the possession of a deceased. person waiting on the shore of hercula hoping to escape he didn't make it this is his treasure in his hand that he took while trying to escape here is another better preserved wooden wallet from the house of the two courts and here we have charred wood in bronze, you can see the mechanism to open the top that still works and you have several coins, one of them dates back to the time of the espion now let's travel next to Herculaneum to the Villa of the property famous for charred property roll here is a restoration of it the excavations They continued recently even in 2007 and that is where beautiful remains of tables and tripods were found inlaid with ivory so we can see some of the details here there is a dancing figure on top of a bucranium and an ox skull with fillets so we have a lot of religious landscapes here We have dionysis and many disiac scenes.

This is truly extraordinary. You can see the ivory layer on top of the wooden skeletal frame. This is one of the great recent discoveries in Daddy's Villa and here we have from the decom Manus Maximus a maple trunk with hinges that They still work in Herculaneum. You can go to many houses and still find many artifacts made of charred wood. It's always an adventure. There is always something to discover. Hercules Millenium, so just enjoy this site, enjoy the history, enjoy the cats on the site, it's all part of the experience. Thank you very much for looking, we hope you enjoy this exhibition on Herculaneum furniture.

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