V.2.i Pompeii. Casa delle Nozze d’Argento or House of the Silver Wedding

or Domus L. Albucius Celsus.

Excavated between 1891 and 1908.

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V.2.i Room Plan (opens in a separate window)

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, kitchen with doorway to latrine, room 13.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall of latrine. 

 

V.2.i Pompeii. Room 13, latrine showing painted walls and ceiling. 

Joyce Agee, photographer, 1995.

Courtesy of Dr Penelope M Allison from her web site Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion:

See http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/home.

According to Hobson, pipe water was supplied to a small number of toilets.

In this toilet a tap was attached in the wall (but no longer visible as the whole latrine room has collapsed).

See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.123)

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11, south side of kitchen. 

Hole in the floor and wall leading into caldarium. 

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11, south-east corner of kitchen.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 11, south-east corner showing remains of masonry foundation in kitchen.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, looking west across garden area. 

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. 

Room 12, garden area, looking south towards baths area with latrine on left.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 13, painted latrine. 

Collapsed wall viewed from garden with entrance to room 11 (kitchen) at rear of latrine.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 12, garden area. Drain or well on west side of latrine.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, cold plunge pool in garden area.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, garden area.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. May 2005. Room 12, swimming pool in garden area.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. May 2005. Room 12, swimming pool in garden area.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, looking north-east across pool in garden area. 

A jet of water used to fall into the pool from the white marble stand.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. 

Doorway to room 14, apodyterium or dressing room, from garden area.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 14, apodyterium or dressing room.

 

 

 

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V.2.i Room Plan (opens in a separate window)