Schola armaturarum

The Schola Armaturarum (wrongly once Schola Iuventutis ) (III 3, 6) was a meeting house in Pompeii . It was excavated by Vittorio Spinazzola in 1915 . The building consisted of a hall and a number of rooms behind it, which were from a previous building when a private house stood here. Shortly before the fall of the city, the Schola Armaturarum probably served as a meeting place for a military organization. During the excavations, numerous weapons were found that were once stored on shelves along the walls. Most of the wood on the shelves had already been used up during the excavations, but holes for the shelves could still be seen on one wall. The wide entrance was once blocked with a wooden grille that could be reconstructed from plaster casts. The wood of the grating was long gone, but left a cavity that was filled with plaster during the excavations. The pillars on either side of the entrance were painted with trophies and weapons. Wall paintings with military badges and candelabra were also found inside the hall.

In 1943 the Schola and neighboring buildings were damaged in a bomb attack. During the post-war restoration, it was given a concrete roof. After the collapse on November 6, 2010, the building was restored and made accessible to visitors again in 2017 with a display board exhibition.

literature

• Eugenio La Rocca, Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers, Arnold de Vos: Lübbe's archaeological guide Pompeii . Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-7857-0228-0 , p. 233.

Web links

• What do we know about the Schola Armaturarum?
• Extensive visual documentation on four pages: photos and drawings of the pre-war state (still with the wall paintings), the post-war period, the collapse and the restoration

Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 6 ″  N , 14 ° 29 ′ 30 ″  E