A Kazakh tourist was arrested after writing the word ALI on a wall of the House of the Ceii, in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. The man will have to pay for the restoration of the damages
A tourist from Kazakhstan was detained on Saturday morning by security and reception staff while carved the letters ALI in a light-colored plaster in the House of the Ceii of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
The tourist was reported to the permanent Carabinieri post near the Pompeii excavations and will have to answer for the damage caused to the heritage. Restorers and coordination personnel are on site to carry out technical evaluations.
“Uncivil act will have to pay for the restoration of the wall. Bravo to the Ministry and the Ales employees who intervened quickly. Excellent collaboration with the Carabinieri, whom we thank for their promptness,” declared the Park Director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.
Where is the House of the Ceii in Pompeii
The House of the Ceii, excavated between 1913 and 1914, says the Archaeological Park website, represents one of the rare examples of ancient housing from the late Samnite period (2nd century BC). Ownership of the domus was attributed to the magistrate Lucius Ceius Secundus, based on an electoral inscription painted on the exterior façade of the house.
The façade of the domus, with its white stucco coating and the high portal crowned by cubic capitals, illustrates the severe appearance that a bourgeois house must have had at the end of the Samnite period (2nd century BC).
In the center of the tetrastyle atrium is the peculiar impluvium basin, made with fragments of amphorae placed in a cut shape, according to a technique that is widespread in Greece but of which Pompeii only finds another comparison in the House of the Ancient Hunt.
