Skyscape Archaeology at Pompeii between the Archaic and the Hellenistic period

The urban solstitial alignment of Pompeii might have been relative to the reorganisation of the city during the Hellenistic age. However, this datum can be read as a continuationof memory from the Archaic period, already explicit in the preservation of the urbansacred spaces. Indeed, the exact dies when the Archaic Doric Temple aligned with the sun, the day of summer solstice, is coincidental with thealignmentof the urban layout at sunrise. At the current state of knowledge, it is not possible to confirm if the city had the same orientation from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, but it is possible to infer that sacred spaces preserved such temporal memory of foundation. These preliminary results will be contextualised by applying the method of skyscape archaeology to other Campanian cities in order to compare data.