V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, doorway to room on east side of triclinium.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north wall, and north-east corner, with purple/violet zoccolo/dado, and white middle zone.
According to PPM, the zoccolo was decorated with panels separated by narrow compartments decorated with flowers amongst palms.
In the middle of the north wall, at the rear of the alcove,
Mau saw “without a cornice and on a white background, the noted group of Mars
and Venus.” ………. In the side panels, seen on the left was a flying figure, on
the right a standing Cupid. He could not recognise any particulars in one or
other of the figures. (See Mau, BdI,
1876, p.230, no.35).
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.613, no.82).
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north-east corner and east wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north-east corner of east wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, recess in east wall.
According to PPM –
Dionysus, standing, holding a thyrsus, was seen in the central panel of the alcove against the east wall.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 614 no.83).
According to
Sogliano –
Dioniso in piedi col tirso nella destra, vestito di clamide pavonazza. (Bull.Inst, 1876, p.229)
(Standing Dionysus, with thyrsus in the right hand, dressed in a purple cloak).
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini, (p.38, no.158).
Kuivalainen describes “a standing youth with a thyrsus in his right hand, a violet cloak on his left arm”.
In his comments – he says – The picture of Bacchus is located in a niche for a bed, which is rare”.
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, p.96, B3.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, south-east corner.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, south-west corner.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, west wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii (but shown as being VII.1.40 Pompeii.) Pre-1937-1939
Looking north across portico towards doorways to room 18, on left, and 19 at east end of north portico.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 477.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, room in north-east corner of peristyle garden.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, north wall with window to room in V.1.23
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, recess in west wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, recess in west wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, looking south-west across the peristyle garden.