VIII.2.3 Pompeii. Casa di Championnet II.

Linked to VIII.2.4 and VIII.2.5. First excavated 1808.

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VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway, looking south.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south across atrium towards tablinum and peristyle.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Impluvium in atrium.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005.

Doorway to cubiculum on west of entrance corridor.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorway to cubiculum on east of entrance corridor.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorway to cubiculum in north-east corner on east side of atrium.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Ala on east side of atrium.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking across atrium to room in south-east corner.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south to open tablinum, and through to peristyle.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005.

West wall of tablinum, corridor to peristyle, and west wall of atrium in north-west corner.

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south across peristyle garden.

According to Jashemski, this peristyle garden, was enclosed on four sides by a portico supported by fourteen columns. 

Off the north-west corner of the peristyle was a small room which Mazois and Fiorelli call a sacrarium.

At the rear, there was a terrace.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.205)

 

VIII.2.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Small room on north-west corner of the peristyle. 

According to Boyce, off the north-west corner of the peristyle opened a small room which Mazois and Fiorelli called the lararium.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.74, no.342)

 

VIII.2.1-3 Pompeii. 1824. Drawing of mosaic from one of the rooms in the two linked-houses of VIII.2.1 and VIII.2.3.

See Mazois, F., 1824. Les Ruines de Pompei: Second Partie. Paris: Firmin Didot. (p. 61, Plate XX fig 2)

 

 

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