Pompeii. The Building of Eumachia

This is a quick walking tour of the Building of Eumachia, the largest structure by Pompeii's forum. It was built in the early first century AD by Eumachia, a public priestess, in her name and that of her son Marcus Numistrius Fronto. She had probably been married to a man of the same name who was duumvir, a city magistrate, in AD3 - he had presumably died. We do not know what the building was used for but it may well have been connected with the fulling trade - the fullers dedicated a statue of Eumachia. It may have been their guild headquarters, but was probably also used for general trading, perhaps in slaves too. The structure was badly damaged in the earthquake of AD62 and was still being repaired when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The building is prescribed material for the UK-based OCR examination board's Classical Civilisation A-level (paper CC6: Cities of Roman Italy).

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• Pompeii
• Roman
• Vesuvius
• Building
• Eumachia

[summerwmonika]

thank you very much: I am studying Eumachia's building and her tomb, and it is very helpful to see the real thing.

[supbodhi]

Lovely!

[violetpumpkin]

see sir, i dooooo occasionally use your online resources =]

becky