V.1.28 Pompeii. House of M. Tofelanus Valens or House of C. Cassius Bassus.

Excavated 1875.

V.1.28 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north to entrance on Via del Vesuvio.

V.1.28 Pompeii on left. About 1909. Looking south on Via del Vesuvio.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

V.1.28 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

V.1.28 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance and south wall of fauces.

V.1.28 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of fauces and niche.

V.1.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche on north wall.

According to Boyce, the square niche was surrounded by an elaborate aedicula façade of stucco.

In the floor of the niche were holes for the bases of statuettes.

The niche and façade were brightly coloured, the rear wall was white bordered with red and having delicate painted green plants on it.

The pilasters of the façade were yellow, their capitals red, white and blue.

The bands of relief that ran around the architrave and the cornices were also painted in these colours.

On the wall below the niche was a painted band of yellow.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.33, no.81, and Pl.1,5)

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico.  Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.231)

V.1.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Stucco on niche.

V.1.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Square niche.

V.1.28 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking east along fauces to atrium.

V.1.28 Pompeii. December 2006. Atrium, with staircase against east wall.