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'''Stabiae''' ({{IPA-la|ˈstabɪ.ae̯|lang}}) was an ancient city situated near the modern town of [[Castellammare di Stabia]] and approximately 4.5 km southwest of [[Pompeii]]. Like Pompeii, and being only {{cvt|16|km|mi}} from [[Mount Vesuvius]],
Stabiae is most famous for the Roman villas found near the ancient city which are regarded as some of the most stunning architectural and artistic remains from any Roman villas.<ref>Stabiae: Master Plan 2006, the Archaeological Superintendancy of Pompeii, School of Architecture of the University of Maryland, The Committee of Stabiae Reborn</ref> They are the largest concentration of excellently preserved, enormous, elite seaside villas known in the Roman world. The villas were sited on a 50 m high headland overlooking the [[Gulf of Naples]].<ref>[http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-stabiano.html San Diego Museum of Art exhibition on Stabiae] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210095848/http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-stabiano.html |date=10 February 2006 }}</ref><ref name="restoring">[http://www.stabiae.org/foundation/en/ Restoring Stabiae website]</ref> Although it was discovered before Pompeii in 1749, unlike Pompeii and [[Herculaneum]], Stabiae was reburied by 1782 and so failed to establish itself as a destination for travellers on the [[Grand Tour]].
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[[File:Antica porta di Stabiae.jpg|thumb|250px|City gate of Stabiae]]
The settlement at Stabiae arose from as early as the 7th century BC due to the favourable climate and its strategic and commercial significance as evocatively documented by materials found in the vast [[necropolis]] discovered in 1957 on via Madonna delle Grazie, situated between [[Gragnano]] and [[Santa Maria la Carità]]. The necropolis of over 300 tombs containing imported pottery of Corinthian, Etruscan, [[Chalcidians|Chalcidian]] and [[Attica|Attic]] origin clearly shows that the town had major commercial contacts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=%E2%80%9CIn+Search+of+Stabiae%E2%80%9D&idSezione=7766 |title=Homepage – Pompeii Sites Portale Ufficiale Parco Archeologico di Pompei |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=17 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017163116/http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=%E2%80%9CIn+Search+of+Stabiae%E2%80%9D&idSezione=7766 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The necropolis, covering an area of {{cvt|15000|m2}}, was used from the 7th to the end of the 3rd century BC and shows the complex population changes with the arrival of new peoples, such as the [[Etruscans]], which opened up new contacts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=History+of+Stabiae&idSezione=3386 |title=Homepage – Pompeii Sites Portale Ufficiale Parco Archeologico di Pompei|date=9 March 2024 }}</ref>
Stabiae had a small [[port]] which by the 6th century BC had already been overshadowed by the much larger port at [[Pompeii]]. It later became an [[Oscan]] settlement<ref name="Senatore" /> and it appears that the [[Samnites]] later took over the Oscan town in the 5th century.<ref>
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In 62 AD the city was hit by a violent earthquake that affected the whole region, causing considerable damage to the buildings and creating the need for restoration work, which was never finished.{{cn|date = January 2024}}
According to a letter written by
Pliny died at Stabiae the following day. This coincides with the arrival of the sixth and largest [[pyroclastic surge]] of the eruption caused by the collapse of the [[eruption plume]].<ref>
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</ref> These ruins were partially excavated by Alcubierre with help from [[Karl Weber (archaeologist)|Karl Weber]] between 1749 and 1775.<ref name="Parslow"/> Weber was the first to make detailed architectural drawings and delivered them to the court of Naples. He proposed the systematic unearthing of the buildings and their display on site, in their context. In 1759 Weber partially identified and described part of the old city that extended over an area of about 45000 m<sup>2</sup>.<ref>Gardelli, Paolo. [https://actual-art.spbu.ru/en/publications/archive/vol-8/museum-collection-space-work-of-art/10691.html Stabiae and the Beginning of European Archaeology: From Looting to Science.] ''Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art'': Collection of articles. Vol. 8. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018, pp. 681–690.</ref> The ruins that had been excavated, however, were reburied.
A second excavation campaign until 1782 was assisted by the architect [[Pietro la Vega|Franceso La Vega]] after Weber's death. He diligently collected all the preceding material to reconstruct the history of the excavations. He introduced new concepts for the first time about context, emphasising direct observation of ancient buildings in their landscape or in their historical and archaeological complex. In seven years at Stabiae La Vega resumed excavations in some villas built on the plateau of Varanium<ref>{{Cite web |title=Opening Archaeological Museum of Castellammare di Stabia Libero D'Orsi |url=http://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/opening-archaeological-museum-of-castellammare-di-stabia-libero-dorsi/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Pompeii Sites |date=24 September 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> already partially excavated, the Villa del Pastore, Villa Arianna and [http://pompeiisites.org/en/stabiae-en-2/second-complex/ Second Complex] and extended research to a large number of ''villae rusticae'' in the ''ager stabianus'' and made precise reports. However he could not persuade the court to keep excavated buildings exposed and avoid their backfilling, so excavation of Stabiae continued with the usual technique of digging and backfilling.<ref>Gardelli, Paolo. [https://actual-art.spbu.ru/en/publications/archive/vol-8/museum-collection-space-work-of-art/10691.html Stabiae and the Beginning of European Archaeology: From Looting to Science.] ''Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art'': Collection of articles. Vol. 8. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018, pp. 686</ref> The location of Stabiae was again widely forgotten.
In 1950<ref name="restoring"/> when [[Libero D'Orsi]], an enthusiastic amateur, brought to light some rooms of Villa San Marco<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-31 |title=Villa San Marco |url=http://pompeiisites.org/en/stabiae-en-2/villa-san-marco/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Pompeii Sites |language=en-US}}</ref> and Villa Arianna<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-31 |title=Villa Arianna |url=http://pompeiisites.org/en/stabiae-en-2/villa-arianna/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Pompeii Sites |language=en-US}}</ref> with the help of the maps from the Bourbon excavations, and also Villa Petraro, a ''[[domus]]'' found by chance in 1957 (in the commune of Santa Maria la Carità) but then reburied after a few years of study.<ref>Libero D'Orsi, Antonio Carosella; Vincenzo Cuccurullo, The excavations of Stabiae: excavation newspaper, Rome, Quasar, 1996, {{ISBN|88-7140-104-2}}</ref> He also found parts of a residential area of the city about 300 m from Villa San Marco including remains of houses, shops, parts of the ''[[macellum]]''<ref>Arnold De Vos; Mariette De Vos, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia, Rome, Editori Laterza, 1982. p. 323</ref> to which roads from the port converged.<ref>Giuseppe Di Massa, the territory of Gragnano in antiquity and the ager stabianus, pp. 1–48. http://www.centroculturalegragnano.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Il-Territorio-di-Gragnano-nell%E2%80%99antichit%C3%A0-e-l%E2%80%99Ager-Stabianus.pdf</ref> These remains were again reburied. News of the finds quickly attracted important visitors and nobility from all over Europe. Some of the most important frescoes were detached to allow better conservation and almost 9000 finds collected were housed locally. His work finally stopped in 1962 following lack of funds.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Storia+degli+scavi&idSezione=259 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022034654/http://www.pompeiisites.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Storia+degli+scavi&idSezione=259 |archive-date=22 October 2013 |title=Homepage – Pompeii Sites Portale Ufficiale Parco Archeologico di Pompei}}</ref>
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* [http://www.stabiae.org/foundation/ Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation site]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/stabiae Stabiae – Comprehensive site on the eruption of 79 AD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127100907/https://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/stabiae |date=27 January 2022 }}
* [http://www.auav46.dsl.pipex.com/p125.htm Herculaneum/Pompeii/Stabiae Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216125711/http://www.auav46.dsl.pipex.com/p125.htm |date=16 December 2008 }}
* [http://www.webvisionitaly.com/category.php?id=77 Video Villa San Marco]
* [http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/cover/index.html Romano-Campanian Wall-Painting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307134958/http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/cover/index.html |date=7 March 2011 }}
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