I.3.18 Pompeii. Fullonica of Sestius Venustus.

Linked to I.3.16. Excavated 1869.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south across Vicolo del Menandro towards entrance doorway.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. December 2007.South wall and west wall with doorway linking to I.3.16 in south-west corner.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. December 2007.

South wall with doorway in south-east corner, blocked in antiquity, originally leading to a room in I.3.20.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. May 2005. South-east corner, showing two doorways blocked in antiquity.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. December 2007.

East wall, and area of doorway blocked in antiquity, leading to a room in I.3.20.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall.

 

I.3.18 Pompeii. Wall painting of a banquet scene with couple kissing.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 9015.

According to Richardson, the above painting was found with another he called “Women’s banquet”.

This is also in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 9016.

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins, (p.120)

 

In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included a description of the insula.

This description is included at the end in all parts of I.3 on the website.

 

“L’isola 3 della Regio I apparteneva ai quartieri piuttosto poveri, ad’esenzione della casa no. 3 tutto le case sono di dimensioni non grandi.

La casa no. 3 presenta un interesse dal punto di vista della costruzione: il peristilio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello dell’atrio:

questa particolarità si riscontra solamente in questa casa.

Noi abbiamo un esempio inverso nella casa dell’Ancora nera ove l’atrio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello del peristilio.

Si sente bene nell’isola in questione la vicinanza dell’anfiteatro da una parte e delle caserme dei gladiatori dall’altra.

Non c’è dubbio che le case nos 23, 25 siano state abitato da gladiatori.

(translation: “Insula 3 of Region I belonged to a rather poor neighborhood, with the exception of house No. 3 all the houses were not large in size.

The house at no. 3 had a special interest from the point of view of construction: the peristyle sits at a level higher than that of the atrium: this particularity was found only in this house. We have a contrary example in the House of the Black Anchor where the atrium was located at a higher level than that of the peristyle.

The nearness of the amphitheatre on one side and the gladiators' barracks on the other suited well the inhabitants of the insula in question.

There was no doubt that the houses numbered 23, 25 had been inhabited by gladiators.”).