Nissen (_Ital.

Landeskunde_, ii.

288) gives the area as 800 x 1,200 metres, which seems much too large.
_Herculaneum_ (fig.

19).
To these examples from north Italy may be added two from the south, Herculaneum and Naples.

Herculaneum had much the same early history as its more important neighbour Pompeii.