VI.15.5 Pompeii. Casa di M. Pupius
Rufus.
Linked to VI.15.24 and VI.15.25 (Now Blocked).
Excavated 1895.
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VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019.
Looking south across garden area, with room 10, on left.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area 11, looking north along west wall.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area 11. Looking north-east across the garden to the tablinum and east portico.
According to Jashemski –
In the middle of the garden, the excavators found three slender octagonal columns, and the remnants of a fourth one, finished with green stucco, all that remained of the pergola that had once shaded the triclinium. During the renovation of the house the triclinium had been destroyed save for a part of the west couch which served as a support for an aedicula, still without stucco, built against the west wall apparently to serve as a fountain.
In front of the aedicula niche, on the same base, was a circular masonry monopodium covered with stucco.
Inside the niche was a white marble puteal, covered with a grey marble plate on which stood a marble fountain statuette of a standing nymph.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.156).
According to
Soprano –
Ubicazione:
peristilio.
Bibliog. Sogliano,
Gli scavi di Pompei dal 1873 al 1900, In “Atti del Congr. Internaz. dii Scienze
Storiche”, V. 1904, p.334.
L’esistenza di
un triclinio nell’area del peristilio era affermata dal Sogliano con la
seguente notizia –
“Il
peristilio, in origine, conteneva un triclinio di fabbrica protetto da un
pergolato che era sostenuto da piccole colonne ottagonali.
Posteriormente,
nella rinnovazione della casa, il triclinio fu demolito e non ne fu risparmiata
che una parte del lato ovest; la quale parte servi di sodo per poggiarvi le
pareti di una nicchia a volta con frontoncino.......”
See Soprano, P.
(1950). I triclini all’aperto di Pompei. (In Pompeiana, raccolta di
studi per il secondo centenario degli scavi di Pompei. Napoli, Gaetano
Macchiaroli, Editore, p.309, no.39.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, looking west from
east portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, aedicula niche
against west wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009.
Aedicula niche built against the west wall, probably to be used as a fountain but never completed.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking west towards
tables in garden area. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. May 2009. Looking west towards tables in garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west at tables in garden area.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, round masonry
table covered with stucco.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards round
masonry table covered with stucco. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Round masonry table covered with stucco.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, white marble base for a fountain.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. White marble base for a fountain.
VI.15.5. Pompeii. 1971. Marble fountain statuette of a standing nymph.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 124841.
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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According to Wilhelmina, “found inside the niche was a white marble puteal, covered with a grey marble plate on which stood a marble fountain statuette of a standing nymph (0.54m high, Naples Archaeological Museum inv.no: 124841) leaning with her left arm on a leather bag placed on top of a trunk of a tree.
The statuette still showed traces of colour. There were various statuettes nearby.”
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.156)
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, south side of aedicula niche.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, table in garden area.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, detail of top of table
in garden area.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, table in the garden area.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019.
Garden area 11, remaining small base of a column, possibly from
the pergola of the summer triclinium, found covered in green stucco.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, decorative garden column.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, detail of top
of decorative garden column.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, decorative garden column.
VI.15.5 Pompeii.
Statuette of Perona and Micone.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. MANN inventory number 124846.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichitŕ, 1895, page 438, 3 Oct 1895, VI, xv, 5, Garden, west side,
Our thanks to Raffaele Prisciandaro for his help in identifying this object.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. Clay figurine of an old drunken woman, 0.41m high incl. base.
The statuette served as a jug for liquid, as could be seen by the ribbon handle, now broken, that was attached at the shoulders.
The hole for the liquid was seen between the neck and the top of the handle.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichitŕ, 1897, p.24, fig. 2.
It was found in October 1895 in or near the garden niche, together with a group of other objects.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichitŕ, 1895, p.438.
According to Jashemski, the jug is now in the Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 124844, Ruesch 442.
Other objects found nearby included –
Marble fountain statue of a Nymph, Naples inventory number: 124841.
A little vase in the shape of a Silenus, Naples inventory number: 124847.
A little vase in the shape of a Cock.
Two small vessels in the forms of Ducks and another in the shape of a Goose.
Two Bacchic masks were also found in the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.155)
VI.15.5 Pompeii. Clay figurine of an elephant carrying a tower on its back, 0.35m high incl. base.
The figurine served as a vessel for liquid.
The liquid was put in through the top of the tower, which was open.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichitŕ, 1897, p.25, fig. 3.
It was found in October 1895 in or near the garden niche, together with a group of other objects.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichitŕ, 1895, p.438.
According to Jashemski, this was also a jug, and was now in the Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 124845, Ruesch 442.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.155)
VI.15.5 Pompeii. Clay figurine of an elephant carrying a tower on its back.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 124845.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. April 2019.
Pot/jug/vase in the shape of a duck, found on west side of garden near the aedicula. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory no. 124842.
Sala (room) 88, glass cabinet II, shelf B (middle).
Also found with this was a pot/jar/vase in the shape of a
bird (inv. 124848), the group of
Pero and Mikon (inv.no.124846) and a statue of
Silenus (inv.no. 124847 cat 7.1)
See Di Gioia, E. (2006). La ceramica invetriata in area vesuviana. “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, (p.61).
VI.15.5 Pompeii.
April 2019.
Pot/jug/vase
in the shape of a bird, found on west side of garden near the aedicula. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum, inventory no. 124848.
Sala (room)
88, glass cabinet II, shelf C (top).
See Di Gioia, E. (2006). La ceramica invetriata in area vesuviana. “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, (p.62-3).
VI.15.5 Pompeii.
April 2019. Statuette of Silenus found on west side of garden near the
aedicula. Photo courtesy of Rick
Bauer.
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum, inventory no. 124847.
Sala (room)
88, glass cabinet V, shelf C (top).
See Di Gioia, E. (2006). La ceramica invetriata in area vesuviana. “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, (p.122-23).
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking across east portico towards
oecus 24, in centre, and tablinum 7, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, looking towards east
portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, detail of column
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. North portico 13, looking east at
north end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, looking east across north portico.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 11, garden area. Looking north along gutter on east side of garden.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. East portico at north end, looking
east.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, north end of east portico.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, remains of two steps at north end of east portico.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. North portico at east end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. North portico at west end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards north portico with
room 23, centre left, with cubiculum 14, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Garden area 11, north-west corner of
west wall of garden area, with north portico, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019.
Garden area 11, Detail from west wall of garden area in north-west
corner.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking west along north portico 13,
with doorway to room 23, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI 15 5 Pompeii. March 2019. North portico 13, detail from west
wall at south end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.15.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, north portico, looking west.
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