I.10.5 Pompeii. Stairs to upper floor. Excavated 1932.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Entrance to steps to upper
floor, in centre. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2018.
Entrance to steps to upper floor. Photo courtesy Aude Durand.
I.10.5 Pompeii. April 2017. Entrance
to steps to upper floor. Photo
courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Stairs to upper floor.
11 masonry steps leading to a small independent apartment.
Red painted plaster on exterior wall on east (left) side of doorway.
I.10.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Stairs to upper floor, looking south on Vicolo del Menandro.
I.10.5 Pompeii. Plan with stairs at I.10.5 and workshop at I.10.6 from Notizie degli Scavi, 1934, p.277.
For details of “finds” from this house, (including I.10.6)
See Allison, P.M. (2006). The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Vol. III The finds, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (p.154-157 & p.335-6)
See Online Companion with details and photographs of finds from I.10.5.
I.10.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Exterior wall on east (left) side of doorway to steps to upper floor.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Stairs to upper floor with niche on west wall of stairs.
According to Boyce, the stairs led up to an apartment on the upper floor.
This large arched niche was above the third step of the stairs.
It was coated with successive layers of stucco, of which the last was white.
It was decorated with painted red and yellow flowers and a green festoon.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 29, no. 54)
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of niche on west wall of stairs. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.5 Pompeii. April 2017. Detail
of niche on west wall of stairs. Photo courtesy Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on west wall of site of stairs to upper floor.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of niche on west wall of stairs.
I.10.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking into I.10.6 over the top of the remains of the stairs to upper floor.