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More pictures from Pompeii on Saturday.
Pampas grass outside the hotel.
Path up to the city gates
The Basilica, where court cases were heard. It must have been even more amazing when it was complete.
Water spout, providing drinking water for visitors to the city.
We poked around a bit in some of the more obscure corners and this was another of the mosaics that we stumbled over.
Wall painting in the Macellum.
Not a celtic stone circle but a Roman fish market :)
Amphorae in storage.
Altar in the Temple of Augustus. Amusingly, to a fan of Lindsay Davies' Falco novels, the two chaps carrying the religious paraphernalia have the title of Camilli :)
Wall plaque on a street corner.
Exposed hypocaust in the Stabian Baths.
Stabian Baths
Stucco detail, Stabian Baths
Stucco decoration, Stabian Baths
Cart tracks.
Palaestra, Stabian Baths
House of the Faun, the eponymous statue.
House of the Faun, entranceway
House of the Faun, mosaic.
House of the Faun, mosaic picture of doves stealing a necklace.
House of the Faun, Roman cubism :)
Tower in the city wall
View down into a city from the walk outside the walls.
Tower at the Porta Vesuvio
Castellum Aquae - this was the point where the main aqueduct entered the city and the water was piped out from it.
Tomb in the Porta Herculano necropolis
Detail of the restored roof of the Villa Dei Misteri
Pampas grass outside the hotel.
Path up to the city gates
The Basilica, where court cases were heard. It must have been even more amazing when it was complete.
Water spout, providing drinking water for visitors to the city.
We poked around a bit in some of the more obscure corners and this was another of the mosaics that we stumbled over.
Wall painting in the Macellum.
Not a celtic stone circle but a Roman fish market :)
Amphorae in storage.
Altar in the Temple of Augustus. Amusingly, to a fan of Lindsay Davies' Falco novels, the two chaps carrying the religious paraphernalia have the title of Camilli :)
Wall plaque on a street corner.
Exposed hypocaust in the Stabian Baths.
Stabian Baths
Stucco detail, Stabian Baths
Stucco decoration, Stabian Baths
Cart tracks.
Palaestra, Stabian Baths
House of the Faun, the eponymous statue.
House of the Faun, entranceway
House of the Faun, mosaic.
House of the Faun, mosaic picture of doves stealing a necklace.
House of the Faun, Roman cubism :)
Tower in the city wall
View down into a city from the walk outside the walls.
Tower at the Porta Vesuvio
Castellum Aquae - this was the point where the main aqueduct entered the city and the water was piped out from it.
Tomb in the Porta Herculano necropolis
Detail of the restored roof of the Villa Dei Misteri
calm
Hypocausts and more baths than you can shake a stick at... heaven :D
There are so many beautiful photographs that I don't know where to begin. Fauns - they do not look nice like Mr. Tumnus. And that walkway up to the city gates is so beautiful! And cart tracks - into stone....how is that possible? Wear and tear or incredibly hot days? And that one vista looking over the city is just great....sorry for the random commentary but I'm really overawed by all the great things you've seen!
Indeed, it is none other than he :)
In his Tilley hat, which apparently makes him look suspicious as he got searched on the way out at both Birmingham and Frankfurt airports, but not at all on the way back when he swapped it for his Rolls Royce baseball cap :)
I think it's a satyr, actually, but I'm not an archaeologist, so what do I know? :)
Rob thinks maybe they used metal "tyres" to reinforce the wooden wheels.
Don't apologise - I like your random commentary :) It was so great to have time to wander round and just peer at random things
I guess, considering what Romans wore to war, that there must have been expert metalworkers about so who's to say that there weren't metal tyres about on wagons? I don't remembering seeing any in Asterix and Obelix, but they were in Gaul and maybe iron tyres hadn't reached the frontier. :)
I think the key thing is that Rolls Royce also make aircraft engines (in fact the car business is no longer owned by the Rolls Royce company - no, I have no clue what that's about) and perhaps someone wearing a hat with their logo is a less likely candidate for doing naughty things to aeroplanes? Mind you, it could be a complete coincidence or to do with the time of day or what the particular security person had for lunch for all I know :)
I didn't, but I knew things in China must be pretty lousy still. Have you read Jung Chang's Wild Swans? The things that happened under Mao were truly sickening too.
seems entirely possible - they were very good at inventing things (and nicking other people's inventions for that matter :)).