I.10.11 Pompeii. Casa degli Amanti or House of the Lovers or Casa di Tiberius-Claudius Eulogus.

Linked to I.10.10. Excavated 1933.

Re-opened to the public, after being closed for approximately 40 years, in February 2020.

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I.10.11 Pompeii, on right. September 2021.

Looking south-east to entrance doorway on Vicolo del Citarista, with I.10.10 on left. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance, looking north.

I.10.11 Pompeii. 1959. Looking north towards doorways to I.10.10, and I.10.11. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance with remains of stone bench to right.

I.10.11 Pompeii. Plan, showing the various floorings of the rooms, not necessarily visible when we took our photos.

Some of our room numbers are also different from this early plan.

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1934, (p. 322).

For details of “finds” from this house, (including I.10.10),

See Allison, P.M. (2006). The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Vol. III The finds, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (p.232-246 & p.358-365, & Suppl. p.284-5).

See also the Online Companion with details and photos of the I.10.10-11 finds

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of fauces or entrance corridor, looking west to entrance doorway. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of fauces. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Room 1, east end of north wall of fauces/entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of fauces with graffito scratched on wall.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 1, graffito on east end of north wall of fauces/entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

According to PPP, this is CIL IV 8392.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p.139)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), this reads as –

Accipe quos dedi tecum choros      [CIL IV 8392]

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, east end of north wall of fauces with graffito scratched on wall. 

According to PPP, this is CIL IV 8392.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p.139)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), this reads as –

Accipe quos dedi tecum choros      [CIL IV 8392]

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south wall of fauces or entrance corridor. Looking west.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Room 1, south wall of fauces, looking east. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south wall of fauces, looking east.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, decorative floor in entrance corridor. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 1, looking east across entrance corridor towards room 2, atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, looking east across atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. 1959. Room 2, looking east across atrium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Room 2, north wall of atrium, looking east. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, north wall of atrium, looking east. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. 1959. Room 2, north wall of atrium, looking towards north-west corner. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, medallion on west (left) end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, detail of sacred landscape on medallion on west (left) end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, painted medallion of sacred landscape from north side of atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii, 1968. 

Room 2, painted medallion of sacred landscape from north side of atrium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, wall painting in central panel on north wall of atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, medallion on east (right) end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, detail of sacred landscape on medallion on east (right) end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, painted medallion of a sacred landscape from north side of atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, north-west corner of atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, looking towards west end of atrium with entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Room 2, looking towards west wall of atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021.

Room 2, painted medallion of bread from west wall in north-west corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, painted medallion of bread and plate from west wall in north-west corner of atrium. 

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD.

I.10.11 Pompeii, 1968.

Room 2, painted medallion of bread and plate, from west wall in north-west corner of atrium.

Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, impluvium in atrium, looking east. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. 1959. Room 2, impluvium in atrium, looking west. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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The impluvium was edged with cocciopesto and decorated with white and black tesserae (crosses).

The flooring was of lavapesta with a decoration of dotted large white tesserae.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, decorative edge to impluvium in atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, decoration around cistern mouth in atrium floor. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. September 2021. Room 2, south side of atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, south side of atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, south-west corner of atrium with doorways to room 4 and room 3.

I.10.11 Pompeii. 1959.

Room 2, painted plant with birds on black zoccolo on west wall in south-west corner of atrium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 3, in west wall.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, looking towards west wall.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, south-west corner of atrium, looking towards doorway to room 3, on south side of entrance corridor. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, atrium wall to left of doorway to room 3. Remains of wall painting of still life with a head of a calf. 

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD.  (p.140).

I.10.11 Pompeii. 1959. Room 2, atrium wall to left of doorway to room 3. Still-life of a head of a calf. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, west wall of atrium. Painted wall at south end above room 3 doorway.

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, painted decoration in south-west corner of atrium. 

I.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, painted decoration in south-west corner of atrium. 

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