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Herculaneum, wooden ceiling – notes

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  • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4352322/Roman-palace-hit-Mount-Vesuvius-restored-scientists.html
  • https://archaeofeed.com/2017/04/reconstruction-of-a-herculaneum-palaces-ceiling-destroyed-2000-years-ago/
  • The roof and suspended ceiling of the marble room in the House of the Telephus Relief at Herculaneum; Domenico Camardo and Mario Notomista
    Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2015 [link]
  • The House of the Telephus Relief in Herculaneum: the building history of an aristocratic domus; Maria Paola Guidobaldi
    [academia.edu]

The House of the Telephus Relief is a three-storey palace that was preserved in a layer of sand after Mount Vesuvius destroyed Herculaneum. Survived traces of the red, blue, yellow and green paint on the tails of the wooden ceiling.

Wooden ceiling tile from Herculaneum and stages of reconstruction (by Herculaneum Conservation Project)

Scientists were able to restore the red, blue, yellow and green roof tiles of a seaside palace in Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Pictured is a reconstruction by Herculaneum Conservation Project.