Necropolis of Porta Ercolano
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Athanasia Varveri
Creators: Athanasia Varveri
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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History
The Porta Ercolano necropolis, excavated between 1763 and 1838, is the best known of Pompeii's necropoleis, in use from the middle of the first century BC until the first century AD.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452502505
40.7523434, 14.4800602
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Necropoli di Porta Ercolano" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Necropolis of Pompeii (English, modern)
- Necropolis of Porta Ercolano located at Pompeii (30 BC - AD 300)
- So-called House of the Mosaic Columns located near Necropolis of Porta Ercolano (30 BC - AD 300)
- Tomb of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus part of (analytical) Necropolis of Porta Ercolano (330 BC - AD 300)
- Tombs of the Buccii and Melissaei located at Necropolis of Porta Ercolano (30 BC - AD 300)
catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
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Athanasia Varveri, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Necropolis of Porta Ercolano: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452502505> [accessed: 14 June 2025]
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