II.4.10 Pompeii. Rear entrance from kitchen and toilet.

Complesso di Giulia Felice (Julia Felix) or Praedia di Giulia Felice.  

First excavated 1754 to 1757 then re-interred, fully re-excavated 1951. 

Linked to II.4.2, II.4.3, II.4.11 and II.4.12. 

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II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006.

Front west wall on north side of doorway, showing multiple layers of graffiti or painted plaster.

L. Ceium Secundum aed… can be clearly read.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Steps up to west portico of II.4.6.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to biclinium, looking east.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Found 22nd June 1755. Wall painting with symbols of Dionysus.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8795.

According to Parslow, this painting most probably came from the biclinium as the blue background matches the remaining walls of the room.

See Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, Vol II, 1988: Parslow, C: Documents illustrating the excavations of the Praedia of Julia Felix (p.43)

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Wall painting with symbols of Dionysus. Detail of panther attacking snake. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 8795.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Biclinium.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Biclinium.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Biclinium.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to tablinum, looking east.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii.

Wall painting of two still-life panels including a dead game bird and a glass bowl filled with fruit. Found 6th July 1755.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 8611.

According to Parslow, these were removed from the tablinum, together with the entire north wall.

See Parslow, C.C. (1998). Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae. UK,Cambridge UP, (p. 112 & note 14 on p.346)

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Upper zone of wall from tablinum of Praedia di Guilia Felice (Julia Felix). 

Found 13th July 1755. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 8598.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Detail of wall from tablinum of Praedia di Guilia Felice (Julia Felix). 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Detail of wall from tablinum of Praedia di Guilia Felice (Julia Felix). 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Detail of wall from tablinum of Praedia di Guilia Felice (Julia Felix). 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

II.4.10 Pompeii. Detail of wall from tablinum of Praedia di Guilia Felice (Julia Felix). 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

 

 

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