Dec 24 2011
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Blogging Pompeii: Column collapses in the Casa del Loreio Tiburtino/Octavius Quartio
Lots of links here (most in Italian) on the collapse of a pilaster in the House of Octavius Quartio.
This house was the subject of my doctoral dissertation, so I am following this news quite closely. From the looks of it, the pilaster that collapsed was one that was rebuilt post-excavation, in the 1950’s. In other words, the pilaster was rebuilt with ancient material in its original spot, but was not ancient architecture per se.
It seems to me that all the other collapses at Pompeii over the last 18 months or so have been similarly reconstructed architectural elements. The ancient walls, etc. still seem to be fairly stable (to generalize).
