VIII.6.3 Pompeii. House, or damaged site used as a garden?
Excavated 1882.
Notizie degli
Scavi, (January) 1882,
p.281, reads –
“Dell’isola
situata a mezzo giorno della 5, e che per la regione esposta di sopra sara da
ora innanzi 6.........”
(“Of the insula situated to the south of 5, which will
now be called 6……,”)
Vicolo della Regina,
Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking north between VIII.2, on left and
VIII.6.3, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking north-east from entrance doorway onto Via della Regina. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking north-west towards west side. Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. December
2018. Looking north-west. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking towards south end of west side. Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Remains on north wall of room
with a podium, perhaps a shop, found near the roadway to the east of “room a”,
on plan below.
Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking towards west side, with “the shop”, on the left.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. West wall of room in the middle of the west side. Photo courtesy
of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Detail of column at
north end of west side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking west into room (e) at north end of west side. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Structure
(is this the well) against west wall of room (e). Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Detail of pot/vase on top of
well ? Looking west. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3
Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of pot/vase on top of well ? Looking west. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Looking north from
room (b) towards rooms (d) and (e). Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. October
2023.
Looking south from
room (b) into room (c). Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room (b), detail from
upper west wall of holes for support beams for an upper floor. Photo courtesy
of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room
(b), north-west corner, with remains of lararium painting on west wall, with
tile to hold offerings built into wall, on left.
Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3
Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking
towards west wall in kitchen, with remains of lararium painting. Photo courtesy
of Aude Durand.
According to Boyce, on the west wall of a room which was perhaps a kitchen, was a partially preserved lararium painting.
In the upper zone, the feet of the Genius, to the right of him, a Lar in red and blue tunic, again to the right a long staff, perhaps with sausages attached to it.
Below the figure of the Genius, a tile was embedded in the wall to hold offerings.
Below this, was a serpent (black with a yellow belly, red crest and beard) advancing towards a second serpent (smaller and all black with crest).
This second serpent was coiled around a black omphalos covered with a green net and standing upon a rectangular base.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.78, no.373)
According to Giacobello, the picture on the west wall of kitchen has not been conserved.
The small service area was located in the south-west corner of the house.
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.204).
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. December
2018.
West wall in kitchen area,
detail of painted serpent on lower side of lararium painting. Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room
(b), detail from north-west corner and north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room
(b), looking north through doorway into room (d). Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room
(d), detail of steps to upper floor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room (d), looking
north along west wall towards well (?), in room (e). Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VIII.6.3
Pompeii. December 2018.
Is
this the well, as mentioned on page 136, above. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
See Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1884, p.136.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Detail
of pot/vase on top of well ? Looking
north along west side. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Detail of pot/vase on top of
well ? Looking north. Photo courtesy of
Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3
Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of pot/vase on top of well ? Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023.
Room
(d), north wall with doorway into room (e). Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii.
October 2023. Looking north-east. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east.
VIII.6.3 Pompeii. Unnumbered area between [6] and [5].
See Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1883, p.170.
Described as, at the rear of the previously described house, which was VIII.6.7, number 3 on the above plan.
Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, December 1882/January
1883, Memorie Ser. 3, Vol. XI, p.130.
Description of “an area to the west of No.5”, a description of the unnumbered area (our number VIII.6.3) on west side of VIII.6.4, which is described as “No.5” on the plan.
See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), 1884, p.136.
Description of “an area to the west of No.5”, a description of the unnumbered area (our number VIII.6.3) on west side of VIII.6.4, which is described as “No.5” on the plan.
See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), 1884, p.137.