I.16.5 Pompeii. House of Petronia. Excavated 1958.

Originally, this Insula was numbered as Reg. II, Insula 16, and then in the 1950’s at the moment of excavation altered to Reg I, Insula 18.

I.17 Pompeii. on left. September 2005.                   Roadway looking north.                         Side wall of I.16.5, on right.

I.16.5 Pompeii, on left. September 2005.                  Via della Palestra, looking east.                                      I.22, on right.

I.16.5 Pompeii, entrance doorway, centre left. December 2018.

Looking north-west, with doorway to I.16.6, centre right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north from entrance.

I.16.5 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north along corridor to garden, and on the right, a two-sided peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west.

I.16.5 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west across atrium, to rooms in south-west corner.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west to rooms in south-west corner.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. South-west corner of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall in room on east side of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall in room on east side of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of central painting on painted wall in room on east side of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of central painting on painted wall in room on east side of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall in room on east side of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-west across garden peristyle.

I.16.2 from I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north towards garden, and across garden to the garden of I.16.2.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of cistern-mouth.

I.16.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south towards atrium, from corridor on west side of peristyle.

I.16.5 Pompeii. Found on 26th September 1957 in a cubiculum on the south side of the atrium

Small bronze representing a bearded male, with his arms stretched forward and his hands outstretched.

In his left hand holding the stem of a poppy in bud with its leaves, while the right hand, left without its attribute, shows his empty palm.

The figure was detached just above the waist-line and laid on a thin bronze plate, cut out into an eight-pointed star scheme; of these tips, four are arranged diagonally and are sharp, and the other four, interspersed with these, are blunt and with rounded edges.

This was found, with many other bronzes, near to the wooden parts of an armarium.

Parco Archeologico di Pompeii. Inventory number 11471.

See Elia, O. Bacco Fanciullo e Dioniso Chtonio a Pompei. Bollettino d'Arte 1961, Fasc. I-II, (p.4, figs.5-6).

I.16.5 Pompeii. Small bronze male figure.

Parco Archeologico di Pompeii. Inventory number 11471.

See Elia, O. Bacco Fanciullo e Dioniso Chtonio a Pompei. Bollettino d'Arte 1961, Fasc. I-II, (p.4, figs.5-6).

I.16.5 Pompeii. Small bronze bust of smiling satyr.

From the same room as the previous finding, and on the same day, the bronze bust had been found, depicting a satyr holding in his arms, a fleece (?) or a basket full of fruit.

The satyr turns up his laughing face, slightly leaning towards his left shoulder, the head of bunches of grapes, vine-leaves and branch of ivy make up a strange and lavish hairstyle.

The small bronze, which originally would have been an artistic part of furniture, probably of the bull (toro?) of a bed or a strong-box, has a maximum height of m.0.095 with a width of m.0.085.

Parco Archeologico di Pompeii. Inventory number 11872.

It was probably part of all the set of equipment, preserved/stored in the armarium

See Elia, O. Bacco Fanciullo e Dioniso Chtonio a Pompei. Bollettino d'Arte 1961, Fasc. I-II, (p.5, fig.7).

In room 2, on 21st January 1992, a lamp with two lights was found.

Parco Archeologico di Pompeii. Inventory number 43491

See Di Gioia, E. (2006). La ceramica invetriata in area vesuviana: (SAP 19). “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, (p.75)