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Pompeii.  Street Altar at VI.4.1.

 

Giuseppe Fiorelli wrote

 

“Un grosso serpente larario avvicinantesi ad una mensa per divorarne le offerte,

dipinto nell’angolo esterno di questo edifizio qual Genio tutelare della strada…………”

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.53).

 

Mazois published his painting of this in “Les Ruines de Pompeii”

It is the lower of two pictures on Vol. 2 Plate VI, Atuel dans un carrefour, et vue d'une rue

 

Street Altar at VI.4.1 at junction of Via Consolare and Vico del Farmacista. No longer visible. December 2006.

Street Altar at VI.4.1 at junction of Via Consolare and Vico del Farmacista. 

No longer visible.  December 2006.

 

Left hand wall of VI.4.1 site of Street Altar. No longer visible. December 2006.

Left hand wall of VI.4.1 site of Street Altar.   December 2006.

The snake painting is no longer visible.  

 

Left hand wall of VI.4.1 site of Street Altar. No longer visible. December 2006.

Left hand wall of VI.4.1 site of Street Altar.   No longer visible.  

December 2006.

 

Right hand wall of VI.4.1. December 2006.

Right hand wall of VI.4.1.   December 2006.

 

 

 

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