II.2.2 Pompeii. House of Loreius Tiburtinus or House of D. Octavius Quartio.

Excavated 1916, 1918, 1921, 1933-35 and 1973. Linked to II.2.5.

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II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 10, detail of decoration on west wall.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 10, detail of painting of seated figure on west wall.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2006.

Room 10, west and north walls showing the restored walls from the saved minute fragments.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 10, north wall.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 10, north wall and doorway to pseudoperistye.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 10, east wall.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. July 2011.

Room 10, round painted portrait medallion of two faces, from the east wall.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south-east across pseudoperistyle area towards garden.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across pseudoperistyle area.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii.  Looking north across pseudoperistyle area.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. Room 11, looking east along upper euripus water feature.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. Marble statue of the muse Polyhymnia. SAP 2917.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. Statue of the muse Polyhymnia. SAP 2917.

There were nine goddesses who presided over the arts and sciences.

Polyhymnia was the muse of lyric poetry and singing.

The statue was one of several on bases between the pillars of the portico.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

Jashemski describes the two surviving statues as, one of Polyhymnia (SAP 2917) and the second of Mnemosyne (SAP 2909).

The names on her photographs however are reversed.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 80-1, Figs 84-85).

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. December 2005.

Room 11, looking east along upper euripus water feature.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. March 2009. White marble bust of a man, perhaps a young Dionysus.  

Found on the north side of the upper euripus in the garden.

SAP inventory number:   20382.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. March 2009. White marble bust of a man, perhaps a young Dionysus.  

Found on the north side of the upper euripus in the garden.

SAP inventory number:   20382.

 

II.2.2 Pompeii. March 2009. White marble bust of a man, perhaps a young Dionysus.  

Found on the north side of the upper euripus in the garden.

SAP inventory number:   20382.

 

 

 

 

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