IX.5.20 Pompeii. Steps to upper floor.

Linked to IX.5.18, IX.5.19 and IX.5.21. Excavated 1878.

IX.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Vicolo di Tesmo, looking north. Corner of wall between IX.5.20 and 19.

According to Varone, found on the wall between entrance doorways IX.5.19 and IX.5.20 but in the Vicolo di Tesmo, was the inscription written by two lovers –

Secundus

cum  Primigenia

conveniunt      [CIL IV 5358]

This translates to - Secundus and Primigenia meet here.    [CIL 5358]

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.46)

IX.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Vicolo di Tesmo, looking north. IX.5.20 (doorway on right)

IX.5.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Doorway to steps to upper floor.

IX.5.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Probable latrine, at rear of steps to upper floor.

See Hobson, B., 2009. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford, Hadrian Books, (p. 512).