VI.17.42 Pompeii. Casa del Bracciale d'oro or House of Golden Bracelet

or House of the Wedding of Alexander.

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VI.17.42 Pompeii.  Dining room fresco from the centre of a wall, thought to be the poet Euphorion.

A female (poetess?) is reading a diptych, and a boy with a red cloak has a plate for offerings.

SAP inventory 86075.

This is part of a larger panel, one of several items recomposed from a large number of fragments found in a channel in the garden.

It is thought to be from the reconstruction work following the damage after the earthquake of AD62.

Its original room location is unknown.

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U., 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend. (p. 222-7).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, triclinium and nymphaeum, fountain with apse.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31.

Apse and nymphaeum, containing steps which water used to cascade down.

The nymphaeum has been removed and the tracing of the outline of the original parts can be seen.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, original nymphaeum mosaic pattern reconstructed in exhibition apse.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory numbers 40689A-G.

See Conticello, B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (194, p. 275-280).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, nymphaeum showing remains of pattern of glass mosaic and shells.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, nymphaeum. Detail from original mosaic pattern in apse.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 40689.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, looking east across marble triclinium with water feature.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, east wall, north end.

Garden scene with winged sphinx. This was to the side of the fountain apse.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 357, T: 422).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, marble triclinium central water feature.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, south wall. Remains of painted walls around triclinium.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, a large fresco which covered the entire south wall. Inventory number 59467.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, south wall, west end, showing detail of painting of a bull.

Inventory number 59467.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, south wall, showing detail from the large garden fresco.

The detail of the lattice work can be seen. Inventory number 59467.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, south wall, detail of painting of a cupid.

Detail from the large garden fresco, inventory number 59467.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, south-east corner. Painted walls around triclinium.

To the right can bee seen the route of the lead pipe work that carried the water from the cistern to the fountain.

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U., 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend. (p. 166).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Summer triclinium 31, north wall, west end, garden scene with two sphinx. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

 

 

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