1939 Halftone Print Villa House Di Diomedes Estate Pompeii Garden XGR9 VEN4 Public Information Bureau and Exhibit

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Earle Ludgin

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1939 Halftone Print Villa House Di Diomedes Estate Pompeii Garden XGR9 VEN4 Public Information Bureau and ExhibitThis is an original 1939 black and white halftone print of the Villa (House) di Diomedes. A wealthy estate excavated in the buried city of Pompeii. Belonging to a wealthy Roman family, this estate overlooked the Gulf of Naples and boasted an enormous colonnade lined garden (pictured center) with a pool in a cryptoporticus (covered gallery). It was here that the preserved remains of the master of the house and his eighteen guests, mainly women who were