VII.15.2 Pompeii. Casa del Marinaio or Casa di Niobe or Casa del Gallo.

Linked to VII.15.1 and VII.15.16. Excavated c.1859 and 1871.

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VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across rooms above the granary at VII.15.16.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary VII.15.16, south room.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary VII.15.16. 

The south room, looking over rear wall to granary oven below.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary at VII.15.16, the middle room.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary at VII.15.16, north room.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Rooms above the granary at VII.15.16. 

North room, entrance to granary can be seen on lower level.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across garden area to tablinum.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Corridor to kitchen and baths area.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across kitchen.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen, looking east.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen with hearth.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen, hearth, oven and remains of stairs on right to upper floor.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Kitchen, east wall. 

Entrance to praefurnium for the caldarium which was stoked from the kitchen.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Small courtyard area at top of corridor behind kitchen.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway into tepidarium on left side of corridor.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Tepidarium.

This room was simply heated by warm air channelled into it from the caldarium through an opening in the common wall.

The wall decoration of the tepidarium was Third style on a black ground.

The floor was paved with cocciopesto.

No further details were recorded, and now the wall decoration has faded.

 

VII.15.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Tepidarium with doorway into caldarium.

The caldarium had a hypocaust system, complete with suspensurae beneath its floor.

Regulae mammatae lined its south, west, and north walls.

The praefurnium was stoked from the kitchen, which was on the west side.

The wall decoration of the caldarium was Second style, but no further details were recorded.

The floor was paved with cocciopesto.

See Franklyn, J.L., 1990. Pompeii, the Casa del Marinaio and its history. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider.

 

 

 

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