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Oplontis

Coordinates: 40°45′11″N 14°27′11″E / 40.753°N 14.453°E / 40.753; 14.453
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Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata
UNESCO World Heritage Site
CriteriaCultural: iii, iv, v
Reference829
Inscription1997 (21st Session)
Coordinates40°45′11″N 14°27′11″E / 40.753°N 14.453°E / 40.753; 14.453
Oplontis and other cities affected by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The black cloud represents the general distribution of ash and cinder. Modern coast lines are shown.

Oplontis was a town near Pompeii, in the Roman Empire. On August 24 AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried it under a layer of ash. It is today the location of the Villa Poppaea, the villa of the wife of the Emperor Nero, which was excavated in the middle of the twentieth century and is open to the public.

A second villa, the Villa of L. Crassius Tertius, was discovered in 1974, 250m east of the Villa of Poppaea, during the construction of a school. It was named following the finding of a bronze seal bearing the aforementioned term.

The name Oplontis most likely refers to the baths in the area of Oncino, but today the name commonly covers the group of villas in the middle of the modern town of Torre Annunziata.

A large number of artifacts come from Oplontis are preserved in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

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