VI.9.2 Pompeii. Casa del Meleagro or House of Meleager or House of L. Cornelius Primogenes. Part 1.

Rear entrance at VI.9.13. Excavated 1829, 1837 and 1966.

                                                                                        

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Via di Mercurio, Pompeii. VI.9.2       and          VI.9.3.      Looking north, September 2005..

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance on Via di Mercurio. Looking south.

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, found in July 1830 on the exterior wall, painted in red, were –

 

Casellium

Erastus cupit aed)ilem)    [CIL IV 179]

 

Marcellum

aed(ilem) d(ignum) r(ei) p(ublicae)    [CIL IV 178]

 

In August 1830, a small seal was found in the interior courtyard. It  read –

 

Phoebus

L(uci) C() Primog()    [CIL X 8058, 66]

 

This is now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number MN 4758.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples : Nicola Longobardi. (p. 143)   PAH II, 238; III, 106.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. September 2004. South side of entrance corridor 1.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. September 2004. South side of entrance corridor 1.

Helbig and Schefold identify the wall painting as Demeter and Hermes.

Winsor Leach stated “Mercury looks complicitously at the viewer as he drops a fat purse into the outstretched hand of Ceres, seated with her torch by her side”.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (362)

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (T. 169,2).

See Winsor Leach, E., 2004. The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples. Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Wall painting on south side of entrance corridor 1.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. September 2005. North side of entrance corridor 1.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North side of entrance corridor 1.

Wall painting of Meleager and Atalanta with the boar.

Helbig identified:  Prothyron: Meleagros & Atalante, 1163.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1163).

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (T. 169,1).

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. September 2004. Wall painting on north side of entrance corridor 1.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. March 2009.

Fauces or entrance corridor 1, looking west towards entrance on Via di Mercurio.

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. Found in House of Meleager but exact location unknown.

Wall painting of Mars and Venus. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9250.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (314).

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (T. 169,4).

 

VI.9.2 Pompeii. Found in House of Meleager but exact location unknown.

Atalanta and cupid. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number not known.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1168)

See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wände Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 114.

See Real Museo Borbonico X, Tav. XLIV.

 

 

 

 

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