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IV.4.g
Pompeii
All the doorways on the northern side of Via Nola, forming Regio IV, have
been filled in as a wall to keep the earth bank back from the road.
It is very difficult to find the exact position of these doorways and
link them to any site plan.
Our
numbering is IV.4.a to IV.4.h, in a west to east direction based on the Hans
Eschebach plan of 1969.
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum (CTP IIIA) excludes IV.4.f as being a window,
excludes the street altar and renumbers from east to west as a to f. (p.68-9)
Liselotte Eschebach has numbered these houses from IV.4.1 to IV.4.6 plus a
street altar in a niche between IV.4.5 and IV.4.6.
See Eschebach,
L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan
der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.120)
IV.4.e, IV.4.f, IV.4.g, IV.4.h, Pompeii.
May 2005. Entrances on north side of Via di Nola.
IV.4.f, (on left) and IV.4.g, (on
right),
According
to Liselotte Eschebach between f and g there was a street altar and niche,
originally with a bench.
She
suggested this may be the street altar described by Fröhlich in F24.
Fröhlich in turn refers to a drawing in Gell and Gandy.
See Eschebach,
L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan
der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.120)
See Fröhlich,
T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in
den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p315, F24)
IV.4.g
See Gell, W. and Gandy, J., 1852.
Pompeiana: Third Edition.
IV.4.g
In the middle was a round altar with five small figures in
long white tunics.
In the centre behind the altar was a Tibicen.
On either side were pairs of Vicomagistri with right arms outstretched to the altar.
Two large Lares flank the scene.
In the lower zone was a serpent approaching from the left
to an altar with eggs and fruit on it.
See Fröhlich,
T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in
den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p.315, F24)
IV.4.g,
IV.4.g,
IV.4.g, Pompeii. May 2006. Street shrine.