VII.4.48 Pompeii. Casa di Caccia Antica or House of the Ancient Hunt

or House of the Hunt or House of the Wild Boar.

Linked to VII.4.43. (Strada della Fortuna 14).

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VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Via della Fortuna.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance.

According to Della Corte, living in this house in 79AD would have been an ancient Pompeian family with the name of Mària.

He said proof of this was the electoral recommendation written to the left of the entrance:

 

Holconium

II vir(um)  i(ure)  d(icundo)

Marius  rog(at)      [CIL IV 291]

 

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.124)

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de)

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. Room 1, fauces, looking south to atrium.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. May 2001. Atrium and tablinum.

Photograph courtesy of Current Archaeology.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, atrium.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, impluvium in atrium.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, atrium. 

Impluvium surround made of curved fragments of large amphorae laid on edge and their upper edges smoothed.

See Sear, F., 2006. Papers of the British School at Rome: Cisterns, drainage and lavatories in Pompeian houses, VII.4.51, VII.4.48 and VII.4.57. p. 163-201,

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, atrium with black lava cistern head.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 3, cubiculum.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 4, cubiculum.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 5.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, stone in wall.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 6, corridor to kitchen.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, kitchen.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, kitchen.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, kitchen.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room  7, kitchen with hearth or bench.

 

VII.4.48 Pompeii. December 2007. Room  7, east wall of kitchen. 

 

 

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