Mount Vesuvius Pompeii

This building was the seat of the corporation of dyers and launderers, called fullones. It was built at the expense of the priestess Eumachia and dedicated to Concordia Augusta as can be read on the wooden joists above the door], another name for the Empress Livia, wife of Augusto. The entrance to the building is from the Forum. It has a double’ order of columns and a beautiful rectangular marble doorway, decorated with spirals of acanthus leaves. After the doorway there is a spacious court-yard at the back of which is a wall with three apses, the centrai one of which contains a statue of the Empress Livia. The statue of Eumach a was also situated in the court-yard, but today it is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.