IX.5.14
Pompeii. House of the Restaurant or Casa di Lupanare piccolo?
Rooms “a” to “u” on plan. Linked to IX.5.15 & IX.5.16. Excavated 1878.
Part: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Plan For rooms a’ to f’ see IX.5.16
Room
“f”
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north-west across atrium “b”.
The doorway to the peristyle “k” can be seen on the left.
The doorway to the triclinium “f” can be seen on the right.
According to PPP and PPM this room is “room f” and found in it were the under-mentioned paintings.
All now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Pyramus and Thisbe. Naples Inventory number 111483.
Pair of men before an enthroned queen (Aeneas before Dido?). Naples Inventory number 111480.
Bacchus and Ariadne with thiasus. Naples Inventory number 111481.
See Bragantini,
de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD, p. 482-3.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol IX. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, pp. 623-634.
According to Richardson and Schefold, the paintings were found in triclinium “o”.
Schefold describes triclinium “o” as triclinium l. v. der N-Ala, which equates to room “f’”.
See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins, p. 153.
See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wände Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 260.
IX.5.14 Pompeii.
March 2018.
Looking north-east
towards doorway to triclinium “f”, from portico “k”.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii.
March 2017. Room “f”, looking towards
remains of doorway threshold from atrium “b”.
Foto Christian Beck,
ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May
2017. Room “f”, detail of west side of doorway.
Foto Christian Beck,
ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, doorway to
atrium and south wall in south-west corner.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, looking
towards south wall in south-west corner.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, detail of
panel on south wall on west side of doorway.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, detail of panel on south wall on west side of doorway.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, detail from panel on south wall on west side of doorway.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May
2017. Room “f”, south wall in south-west corner.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, west wall in
south-west corner.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, looking
towards west wall.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May
2017. Room “f”, looking towards west wall.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, detail from lower
centre of west wall.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, detail of
painted decoration on west wall.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, west wall at
north end.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, upper north
wall in north-west corner.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, north wall at
west end.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May
2017. Room “f”, looking towards north wall at west end.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, site of
central painting on north wall.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. Room “f”, centre of north wall of triclinium. Painting of two men before a seated queen.
According to PPM this is of uncertain identification.
More recently it has been suggested that it may be Dido receiving Aeneas for the first time.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 111480.
See Strocka V. M.,
2006. Aeneas, not Alexander:
Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Volume 121, p. 302, abb. 19.
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. IX. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 623.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Room “f”, north wall of triclinium with painting cut from it.
In the black zoccolo were panels with squares alternating with narrow compartments with painted plants:
Seen in the side panels of the red middle zone of the wall, were vignettes with painted Muses, (but badly preserved).
In the centre would have been a painting with a scene of uncertain identification, possibly Dido receiving Aeneas for the first time.
A painted flying Apollo and the separate nine Muses were seen and painted by August Sikkard in 1879.
These would have been seen in the side panels of the triclinium.
One of the Muses was already destroyed at the time of excavation.
Today the others are hardly recognisable or completely disappeared.
Apollo was seen playing the cithara, and then there were -
Urania with globe
Melpomene with tragic mask, lion’s skin and club
Terpsichore with the lyre
Euterpe with a flute
Clio with pen and scroll (in the painted original, the scroll of this Muse was inscribed “Melpomene ex Musis una”
Thalia with a comic mask
Polyhymnia with no attributes
Calliope with a cithara
Erato was missing
See Catalogue, 1989. Italienische Reise: Pompejanische Bilder in den deutschen
archäologischen Sammlungen. Napoli: Bibliopolis, p. 335-6, nos.
111-119.
See Mau in Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1879, (p.259)
See Sogliano in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichitŕ, 1878, p. 183.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May
2017. Room “f”, upper north wall at east end.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, north wall at
east end.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, looking
towards north wall at east end.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May
2017. Room “f”, north wall at east end, with flooring.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.5.14
Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, looking north across remaining flooring in
north-east corner.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14
Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, flooring near north-east corner.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14
Pompeii. May 2017. Room “f”, detail of flooring near north-east corner.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, zoccolo from
north wall at east end.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, detail from
zoccolo on east end of north wall.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, detail from
centre of zoccolo.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, detail from
zoccolo on east end of north wall.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. March 2018. Triclinium
“f”, looking towards north wall, on left, and east
wall, in centre.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii.
March 2017. Room “f”, looking towards north-east corner.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Room
“f”, detail from north-east corner, between zoccolo and middle zone of wall.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, zoccolo on
lower north and east walls and flooring in north-east corner. Looking east.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, flooring in north-east
corner.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2019. Room “f”, detail of
flooring.
Foto Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Part: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Plan For rooms a’ to f’ see IX.5.16