mickle Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Hello This is Mickle. This topic may have arrisen before but their are too many post. I am in year 12 and i was curious about the number of gates at Pompeii. I am told there are 7 gates but when i examine the maps there looks to be eight. Could someone please help Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 The gates of Pompeii as listed by Peter Connelly are: 1. Herculaneum gate 2. Vesuvius gate 3. Capuan gate 4. Nolan gate 5. Sarno gate 6. Nucerian gate 7. Stabian gate 8. Marine gate So you are correct, there are eight gates to the city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Paulinus Maximus Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hello This is Mickle. This topic may have arrisen before but their are too many post. I am in year 12 and i was curious about the number of gates at Pompeii. I am told there are 7 gates but when i examine the maps there looks to be eight. Could someone please help Thanks I've found a couple of maps of pompeii one shows the eight gates named by DC the other shows seven gates, the Capuan Gate is not listed Eight gates http://users.ipa.net/~tanker/pompeii.htm Seven gates http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cw...pompeii-map.htm On the second map you can clearly see the opening where the Capuan gate is shown on the other map, maybe this is just an oversight or maybe the Capuan Gate had been closed for some reason?? Unfortunately my knowledge of Pompeii is pretty limited so I can't give you any sort of definate answer....sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maladict Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 The Capuan gate has not yet been excavated, there are only indications that it's there. That's why some maps show seven gates and others eight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickle Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Thank you all for all the help. It is all greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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