IX.2.17 Pompeii. House of Q. Brittius (or Briuttius) Balbus?
Excavated 1870.
IX.2.17, Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking north along west side of Vicolo di Tesmo towards doorway.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.
On the right in the entrance corridor, a second doorway with entrance into room 2, can be seen.
This doorway would have given access to the upper floor, reached by a staircase.
The other doorway of room 2 is in the north-east corner of the atrium.
IX.2.17, Pompeii. May 2005. Room 2, cubiculum.
Looking north-west through doorway from entrance corridor/fauces.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking west along entrance corridor towards room 1, atrium.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west along entrance corridor towards room 1, atrium.
The remains of the impluvium can be seen in the centre of the atrium.
According to PPP, the central floor of the atrium and impluvium were of cocciopesto.
The impluvium was of cocciopesto with decoration outlined in white tesserae (a net of meanders and squares): the edge was probably moulded but had perished.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.418)
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of entrance corridor, with small traces of plaster, coloured red.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of entrance corridor, with remains of red painted zoccolo.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west along fauces to atrium.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
Room 1, atrium, looking east across impluvium towards doorway to room 2, (on left) and entrance doorway (centre).
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.87), p. 168.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. October 2019.
Room 1, looking west from entrance corridor across atrium towards north wall of tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 1, atrium and north wall of tablinum.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 1, atrium and north wall of tablinum, on the right is the corridor 6.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.89.), p. 171.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 2, cubiculum. Looking east from atrium.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum. West wall with window to room 1, atrium.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum. North wall.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum. Looking east.
On the right is the doorway from the entrance fauces/corridor, which would have led to the stairs to the upper floor.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum. East wall with small window onto Vicolo di Tesmo.
The walls in this room preserved the traces of First Style decoration.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. October 2019.
Room 2, looking from doorway in entrance corridor towards east
wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. October 2019.
Room 2, looking north from doorway in entrance corridor towards
east wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 2, detail of First Style
decoration on east wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum.
Site of wooden stairs to upper floor, against south wall and in south-west corner.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 3, triclinium.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Doorway to room 3, triclinium. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher – this room had a window overlooking Vicolo di Tesmo.
The paintings from the walls had vanished without leaving any trace.
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.88.), p. 170.
The remains of the arca/money chest base can be seen bottom right.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, atrium. South-east corner, with arca/money chest base.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, restored arca/money chest base, in atrium.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. 1932. Room 1, arca/money box, chest base, in atrium.
According to Pernice –
this was found in the atrium, left from the entrance. It was built onto the wall.
Between the base
and the wall is a narrow protective wall made of bricks, probably protecting against
moisture.
See Pernice, E.,
1932. Hellenistische Tische, Zisternenmündungen, Beckenuntersätze, Altäre u.
Truhen. Berlin, p. 75.
DAIR 32.1110. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
According to
Fiorelli: Nella seconda casa, in una località contigua al giardino, si è
raccolto: Ferro. Una cassaforte in frammenti.
(In the second house, in a location adjacent to the garden, the following was collected: Iron. A strongbox in fragments.)
See Giornale
degli Scavi di Pompei N. S. 2, Gennaio 17, 1870, p. 165-6 n. 17.
Thanks to Espen B. Andersson for assisting us in our interest in money-chests.
IX.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south wall of atrium painted with a high red zoccolo, and a white middle zone to the wall.