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VII.6.30 Pompeii. House of Petutius Quintio. Linked to VII.6.37 & 29?

Excavated 1868, 1910. Bombed in 1943.

 

According to Garcia y Garcia Region VII, Insula VI was one of the insulae most devastated over the years since its excavation.

He calls it the “Cinderella” of Pompeii. Between the years 1759 and 1762 it was vandalised and stripped by the Bourbons, then re-interred.

Then came the slow and non-systematic uncovering again before the final destruction in September 1943.

The area was ignored and abandoned during the years following the war, which reduced the insula to a heap of bricks and masonry.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.102).

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north from entrance doorway. By 1873 only the entrance and fauces or entrance corridor had been excavated, according to Fiorelli. See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.160) According to Della Corte, Petutio Quintioni would have been the dweller in this house, judging by an amphora found in the atrium. This amphora was addressed to Petutio Quintioni, and had been sent from Pompeius Onesimus. See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.172)

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north from entrance doorway.

By 1873 only the entrance and fauces or entrance corridor had been excavated, according to Fiorelli.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.160)

According to Della Corte, Petutio Quintioni  would have been the dweller in this house, judging by an amphora found in the atrium.

This amphora was addressed to Petutio Quintioni, and had been sent from Pompeius Onesimus.

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.172)

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north towards east passageway of the garden area and doorway to room to the east of a very large room. According to the Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, page 482, this room was totally plain and rustic and did not offer anything of merit, when excavated.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north towards east passageway of the garden area and doorway to room to the east of a very large room.

According to the Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, page 482, this room was totally plain and rustic and did not offer anything of merit, when excavated.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-west across room with doorway to the garden, on left. On the right of the photo, the destroyed east wall would have contained a niche. According to Boyce, in the east wall of the main room which was entered directly from the fauces was a delicately painted tall, rectangular niche. He thought this was a Lararium. The white background of the surrounding wall was divided by dark stripes into a series of rectangles. These rectangles were in imitation of a veneer of slabs of marble or of a wall built of rectangular blocks of stones. See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.67, no.292) According to the Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, page 481, on the east wall …… a delicately painted niche, which served as a sacrarium.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north-west across room with doorway to the garden, on left.

On the right of the photo, the destroyed east wall would have contained a niche.

According to Boyce, in the east wall of the main room which was entered directly from the fauces was a delicately painted tall, rectangular niche.

He thought this was a Lararium. The white background of the surrounding wall was divided by dark stripes into a series of rectangles.

These rectangles were in imitation of a veneer of slabs of marble or of a wall built of rectangular blocks of stones.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.67, no.292)

According to the Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, page 481, on the east wall …… a delicately painted niche, which served as a sacrarium.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across garden area. According to Jashemski, the garden (excavated in 1910) had a roofed passageway on the north, east and south. Only one tufa column was preserved at the time of excavation. A low masonry wall enclosed the garden. The vault of the cistern reached almost to the level of the garden area so it was not possible to plant the central part of the garden. A planting bed was made, however, around the edges of the garden. See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.185)

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.  Looking west across garden area.

According to Jashemski, the garden (excavated in 1910) had a roofed passageway on the north, east and south.

Only one tufa column was preserved at the time of excavation. 

A low masonry wall enclosed the garden.

The vault of the cistern reached almost to the level of the garden area so it was not possible to plant the central part of the garden. 

A planting bed was made, however, around the edges of the garden.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.185)

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across a very large room on north side of garden area.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north across a very large room on north side of garden area.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Steps to upper floor.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Steps to upper floor.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Recess under steps to upper floor.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Recess under steps to upper floor.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of hearth in kitchen.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.  Remains of hearth in kitchen.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Small room on west side.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Small room on west side.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Site of staircase on south side of garden area.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Site of staircase on south side of garden area.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of painted decoration on south wall of room on south side of garden area.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.

Remains of painted decoration on south wall of room on south side of garden area.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of painted decoration in room on south side of garden area.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005.

Remains of painted decoration in room on south side of garden area.

 

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east along corridor from rear entrance at VII.6.37. The doorway on the south of the corridor, lit by the sun, would have led to the latrine.

VII.6.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east along corridor from rear entrance at VII.6.37.

The doorway on the south of the corridor, lit by the sun, would have led to the latrine.