Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata' has mentioned 'Wall' in the following places:
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In the early 6th century BC, the settlement merged into a single community centred on the important crossroad between Cumae, Nola, and Stabiae and was surrounded by a tufa city wall (the pappamonte wall). | WIKI |
[15][16] The first wall (which was also used as a base for the later wall) unusually enclosed a much greater area than the early town together with much agricultural land. | WIKI |
[17] That such an impressive wall was built at this time indicates that the settlement was already important and wealthy. | WIKI |
The city wall was strengthened in the early-5th century BC with two faxc3xa7ades of relatively thin, vertically set, slabs of Sarno limestone some four metres apart filled with earth (the orthostate wall). | WIKI |
The city walls were reinforced in Sarno stone in the early 3rd century BC (the limestone enceinte, or the "first Samnite wall"). | WIKI |
It formed the basis for the currently visible walls with an outer wall of rectangular limestone blocks as a terrace wall supporting a large agger, or earth embankment, behind it. | WIKI |
From the outbreak of the Second Punic War (218xe2x80x93201 BC) in which Pompeii remained faithful to Rome, an additional internal wall was built of tufa and the internal agger and outer faxc3xa7ade raised resulting in a double parapet with wider wall-walk. | WIKI |
[51] The robbers left traces of their passage, as in a house where modern archaeologists found a wall graffito saying "house dug". | WIKI |
In 1689, Francesco Picchetti saw a wall inscription mentioning decurio Pompeiis ("town councillor of Pompeii"), but he associated it with a villa of Pompey. | WIKI |
A wall fresco depicting Priapus, the ancient god of sex and fertility, with his grotesquely enlarged penis, was covered with plaster. | WIKI |
The Villa of the Mysteries is an enormous residence just outside Pompeiixe2x80x99s city walls, developed from a modest house built in the 3rd century BC, named from the remarkable wall paintings in the triclinium, which depict the initiation rites ('mysteries') of the cult of Dionysus. | UNESCO |
It is especially well known for its magnificent and well-preserved wall paintings, one of the most important examples of Roman painting with their superb illusionistic frescos of doors, colonnades and gardenxc2xa0views. | UNESCO |
The villas in Torre Annunziata have the best preserved wall paintings of the Roman period. | UNESCO |