I.3.24 Pompeii. Domus of Capella.

Excavated 1867.

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I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Cubiculum or bedroom to west of entrance.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to bedroom on west of entrance.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking towards north wall of bedroom to west of entrance.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to room to east of entrance corridor.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to room on east of entrance corridor.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Room on south side of atrium, and corridor to garden

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Room on south side of atrium

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Two rooms on south of atrium.

Tablinum and oecus leading to pseudoperistyle (to the rear).

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Corridor from atrium to garden area

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006.

Looking through oecus to tablinum and atrium, towards entrance.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Room to east of peristyle

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006.  Steps to upper floor, above arch

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Steps to upper floor, kitchen doorway and rear, south wall of house.

According to Boyce, on this south wall of the peristyle was the Lararium painting. He described -

The Genius, holding cornucopia against his left shoulder, poured a libation upon an altar from a patera held in his right.

Beside him stood a Camillus holding a shallow dish.

Opposite the Genius were the tibicen and the popa, the latter leading a pig to sacrifice.

Only the Lar on the right remained.

In the lower zone, a single red and yellow serpent coiled towards an altar.

Nothing now remains of this painting in situ.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 24)

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006.  

Area of peristyle, with large triclinium overlooking it, (centre of picture).

Jashemski said the peristyle had a portico on the north and east side supported by three brick columns.

There was a Lararium painted on the south wall of the portico.

Also a crudely executed animal painting, no longer visible, on one corner of the south garden wall.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 28)

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Triclinium.

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking into atrium, and towards entrance, from tablinum

 

I.3.24 Pompeii. May 2005. Vicolo del Menandro, looking west towards Via Stabia.   I.4

 

 

 

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