IX.3.13 Pompeii. Caupona and dwelling house of Fabius Celer.

Excavated 1870 and 1880.

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IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance on vicolo, looking east.

 

Front wall between IX.3.13 and IX.3.14. December 2007.

According to Della Corte, the name of the owner of the caupona was painted in an electoral recommendation to the right of the entrance:

A(ulum)  Vettium  Felicem

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  Fabius  celer  rog(at)    [CIL IV 3659]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.190)

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking towards west wall, and site of stairs to upper floor.

The white plaque is the name plaque for IX.3.14. 

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from entrance.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. 

North wall of caupona, with remains of stairs in north-west corner, and doorway to dwelling.

On the west wall, on the left, under the stairs would have been a lararium painting, now disappeared.

Luckily both Fiorelli and Sogliano wrote a good description.

Fiorelli told us that there was a Genius flanked by Lares, the caricature of a male head, and two gladiators in combat.

Sogliano reported that the painting was done in red monochrome on white plaster, and showed a Genius with patera and corncupocia, sacrificing at the altar in the middle of two Lares with rhyton and situla.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 146)

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.11)

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.83-4)

See Jacobelli, L., 2003. Gladiators at Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 82)

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance to atrium of dwelling.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Atrium, with remains of impluvium, and cistern.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Impluvium and cistern in atrium.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of hearth and bench in atrium.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking north, doorway to triclinium, on left, and corridor to rear, on right.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across triclinium.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. North wall of triclinium.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of triclinium, with remains of plaster.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Corridor to rear.

 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Corridor to rear.

 

 

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