V.4.a Pompeii. House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto or Casa di Marco Lucrezio Frontone
Plan
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Key
Ground level
1: Entrance at V.4.a.
2: Atrium
3: Storage area
4: Triclinium
5: Cubiculum
6: Cubiculum
7: Tablinum
8: Corridor leading to the service area
9: Cubiculum
10: Garden
11: Light well and rainwater collection area
12: Small triclinium or biclinium
13: Summer triclinium
14: Room where eight skeletons were found
15: Service area
16: Entrance at V.4.11.
17: Service area or stable
18: Kitchen
19: Anteroom to the kitchen
20: Storage area, possibly previously a cubiculum
21: South part a cupboard; north part a latrine
22: Wooden stairs with two initial masonry steps
Upper floor
Stairways in room 22 and the western end of garden 10 indicate that these areas had upper-storey rooms.
Bastet and Heres have recorded rooms above the front of the house.
Mau recorded a large room above rooms 06 and 07 with remains of a pavement and simply decorated in the Third Style on a black ground.
Mau also noted further rooms above the kitchen area.
See Bastet, F.L., 1975. Forschungen im Haus des M. Lucretius Fronto. In Neue Forschungen in Pompeji, Recklinghausen: Aurel Bongers, p. 193-197.
See Mau, A., 1901. Ausgrabungen vom Pompeji. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 16, p. 283-365.
See Peters, W.J., Moormann E.M., Heres T.L. , 1993. La Casa di Marcus Lucretius Fronto a Pompei e le sue pitture. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, p. 83, Fig. 191.
House area
The house area has pictures of
The atrium, the impluvium, the compluvium
A marble table
The tablinum and a cubiculum
The summer triclinium and winter triclinium
The house area has pictures of wall paintings of
Bacchus and Ariadne
Mars and Venus
Narcissus
Pero suckling her father Micone
A young girl
A boy shown with the attributes of Mercury
- a winged helmet and a caduceus
Theseus and Ariadne in front of the Labyrinth
Orestes killing Neoptolemus
The toilet of Venus or Toilette d' Aphrodite
Pyramus and Thisbe
Dionysus with Silenus playing the lyre.
Garden area
The garden area has pictures of
The kitchen, the stairs to the upper floor
The portico, an exedra
The hunting fresco with life size animals
Please be aware that the room numbers shown may differ from any other plans or records both published and unpublished.