V.2.4 Pompeii. Casa di Bacco or The House of the Triclinium.

Excavated 1883.

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V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Several terracotta spouts on a shelf in peristyle, room 13.

These are spouted rainwater gutters, usually part of the compluvium in the roof.

Rain falling on the roof went through the spouts to fall into the impluvium basin below.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Spouts on a shelf in peristyle, room 13.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Spouts on a shelf in peristyle, room 13.

Label says “Elementi di sima dal compluvio”, “Parts of the moulding around the compluvium”.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Spouts on a shelf in peristyle, room 13.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007.

Looking north through doorway to room 15, triclinium in the north-west corner of the peristyle.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, triclinium, west wall, north-west corner and north wall.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, west wall of triclinium.

V.2.4 Pompeii. Room 15, painting of banqueting scene from west wall of triclinium.

End of the Banquet. The guests are rising but one of them cannot stand up without assistance.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 120029.

See Ruesch A., Ed, 1909. Illustrated Guide to the National Museum in Naples. Naples: Richter. (p. 114-5).

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins (p.176, 178)

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. Taf. 20,2.

See Gusman, P. (1900). Pompei, the city, its life and art, (p.313)

V.2.4 Pompeii. Room 15, 19^th century copy of painting of banqueting scene from west wall of triclinium.

DAIR 83.43. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, north wall of triclinium.

V.2.4 Pompeii. Room 15, painting of banqueting scene from north wall of triclinium.

The Commencement. The guests are reclining at table and a boy brings in dishes.

Music and singing accompany the meal.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 120031.

See Ruesch A., Ed, 1909. Illustrated Guide to the National Museum in Naples. Naples: Richter. (p. 114-5).

There is an inscription in large letters above the guests.

Facite vobis svaviter ego canto  [CIL IV 3442a]

Est ita valeas    [CIL IV 3442b]

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins (p.176, 178)

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. Taf. 21,2.

See Gusman, P. (1900). Pompei, the city, its life and art, (p.313)

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), who read [CIL 3442a] as

Facitis vobis suaviter ego canto   [CIL IV 3442a]

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, east wall of triclinium.

V.2.4 Pompeii. Room 15, painting of banqueting scene from east wall of triclinium.

Continuation. The guests are still drinking and the singing and dancing has begun.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 120030.

See Ruesch A., Ed, 1909. Illustrated Guide to the National Museum in Naples. Naples: Richter. (p. 114-5).

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins (p.176)

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. Taf. 21,1.

V.2.4 Pompeii. Room 15, drawing of the painting of banqueting scene from east wall of triclinium.

According to Gusman, this picture was in a very bad state of preservation.

It showed a naked woman dancing before the guests to the sound of flutes played by tibicines seated on the floor.

Wine flowed freely, and one of the guests claps his hands.

See Gusman, P. (1900). Pompei, the city, its life and art, (p.313)

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, triclinium, looking south through window onto peristyle.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, triclinium, south wall and south-west corner.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. South wall of room 15, triclinium. Floating female figure with sickle in one hand and a sheaf in the other.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, floating female figure.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 15, painting of thick leaved plant.

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