V.1.7 Pompeii. House of the Bull or House of the Young Bull

or Casa L. Pontius Successus or Casa del Torello di Bronzo.

Excavated 1836 and 1875. Rear entrance at V.1.9. Linked to V.1.3.

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V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13 and room 14.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, round altar on east side of entrance.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 14, round altar on east side of entrance with paintings of serpents on wall to sides.

According to Boyce, this altar is in the form of a half-column, coated with stucco and painted to represent red and yellow variegated marble.

On the yellow background of each side of the altar is painted a serpent coiling among plants.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 32, pl.39,4)

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, with altar on east side of entrance.

Painting of serpent on right hand side of altar.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, with altar on east side of entrance.

Painting of serpent on left hand side of altar.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, corridor to peristyle.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to Room 16, on east side of peristyle.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 16. Looking east.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007.

Looking north along east side of peristyle from outside room 16a.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 16a.

 

V.1.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16a.

Small second room on north side of room 16.

 

 

 

Part 5

 

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