PUBBUILD HERC

Question 1

STREETS

Answer 1

When compared with the streers of Pompeii, there are fewer traces of the traffic in it

1. There are no marks worn into roads by the repeated traffic of heavily loaded carts, there are no pedestrian stepping stones
2. The step up to the road is not high
3. H was equipped wih an excellent drainage system, and a large sewer carried rain water and waste out into the sea.

Question 2

WATER SUPPLY

Answer 2

-obtained water from aquaducts—large bridges that brought the city’s water supplies

Question 3

FORUM-Centre of economic, social, Religious, Political and Judicial life.

Answer 3

• Part of the forum of H has been located beneath the modern town of Resina, but is not yet excavated.
• H used its ‘decumanus maximus’ ( main street) as a forum.

Question 4

RELIGIOUS

Answer 4

-In the area of the Forum, is the Collegium of the Augustales, the custodians of the cult emperor.
It is a square building with 4 columns.
The Palaestra:
In the Palaestra stood a grand statue of Hercules. Surrounding the open ground were temples to hermes and Hgeia.
-Hermes was the messenger god in greek mythology
- Hygeia was the goddess of good health.

Question 5

POLITICAL

Answer 5

The Basillica:

• Here ministers had their office, commercial and entertainment licenses were issued and law cases heard.
• was either damaged or destroyed in the 62 AD earthquake and was rebuilt by Proconsul Marcus Nonius Balbus
• Statues of his family, himself and his son adorn the walls
• The building was only partly excavated in the early years using the tunneling method

Question 6

BATHS

Answer 6

Forum Baths:
-Their position between two main streets made them conveniently between the buildings and the Forum.
-The baths were large enough to accommodate separate sections for men and women.
-They had public toilets and magnificent mosaics of sea creatures.
-Five skeletons were discovered in the men’s dressing room, four men and a woman.
Suburban Baths:
-The entrance to the bath was through a hanging garden bearing the statue of the proconsul, Nonius Balbus, who gave the bath to the town as a gift.
- While form baths were for use of general public, suburban baths appear to have operated as an exclusive club for wealthy.
-Contained private dining room
-in one entrance area of a suburban bath, statue of god Apollo stands. Water still flows into the basins from original pipes.

Question 7

PALAESTRA

Answer 7

• Large sporting complex that occupied a whole block.
• Had large open grounds, a cross shaped swimming pool measuring almost 50 m long, and a smaller deeper pool as well
• A grand statue stood of the towns patron hero, Hercules.
• Surrounding the open grounds were the temples to Hermes and Hygeian, meeting rooms and a spacious upper gallery