I.2.29 Pompeii. Thermopolium of Polybius. Excavated 1869.

Linked to I.2.28. Bombed in 1943.

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I.2.29 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north to entrance doorway from Vicolo del Conciapelle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to CTP, originally before the 1943 bombing, this entrance had three steps leading up to it.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.4)

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance.

The missing bricks on the left of the doorway, is where the recommendation for Secundum would have been.

 

According to Fiorelli, on this doorway were two electoral recommendations.

One in honour of Lucium Ceium Secundum, acclaimed many times in other places:

L. C. S. II . VIR . I . D.

and

POPIDIVM         AED .  ROG

                             POLYBIVS

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.38)

 

According to Della Corte, this bar was a dependence of the neighbouring house at I.2.28.

He could not speculate who it belonged to.

He thought it was lived in by a certain Polybius, as proved by the recommendation found to the east (right) of the entrance:

Polybius rog(at)  [CIL IV 3379]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.275)

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these read –

Popidium

/

aed(ilem) rog(at)

Polybius        [CIL IV 3379]

 

L(ucium) C(eium) S(ecundum) IIv(irum) i(ure) d(icundo)       [CIL IV 3380]

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. December 2006. West side with the site of the remains of the counter and hearth.

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north from entrance doorway towards north wall that had a doorway into the atrium of I.2.28.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker

The decorative serving table, counter or podium would have been on the left and centre of the photo.

According to Garcia y Garcia, this bar was destroyed completely by a bomb.

The perimeter walls have been reconstructed, but the three steps to the entrance, the sales counter and the electoral inscriptions have been lost forever.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.37)

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking through site of doorway in north wall, to atrium of I.2.28. 

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. December 2006. Site of doorway in north wall, leading through to atrium of I.2.28. 

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.2.29 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south from rear of bar-room, towards Vicolo del Conciapelle.

The unnamed vicolo between I.1 and I.5 can be seen directly across the roadway.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.1 Pompeii. September 2005. Vicolo del Conciapelle, looking west. (I.2.29 with remains of steps, on right.)