I.10.9 Pompeii. Workshop of P.C.F. Excavated 1869, 1927, 1933.

I.10.9 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

According to Della Corte, the initials of the unknown named tenant of the Poppaei, are all that is known.

These initials were found on a brass signet ring found here – P. C. F.  (S.12 bis, See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929, p.469, no.227)

Also found incised on these rustic walls were many records of accounts, CIL IV 8391.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.302)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 8391 reads as -

X XXXV XIX XIIX XXV XIX XVI XV XIX XXII XVI XIII XII XIV XXV VIII XIII XIII XIIX IIX XXII VIII XV III      [CIL IV 8391]

I.10.9 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance, looking east.

For details of “finds” from this house,

See Allison, P.M. (2006). The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Vol. III The finds, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (p.231 & p.357).

See Online Companion with details and photographs of finds from I.10.9.

I.10.9 Pompeii. April 2017.

Corner of insula I.10, Vicolo del Menandro, on left, and coloured terracotta plaque above doorway of I.10.9, in Vicolo del Citarista, on right. 

Photo courtesy Adrian Hielscher.

I.10.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Coloured terracotta decorated circular plaque on north side of entrance.

According to NdS,

a little above the architrave of the doorway, were four large holes (two of them can be seen in the above photo), and a row of smaller ones indicating the presence of a canopy originally.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, (p.321)

I.10.9 Pompeii. Coloured terracotta decorated circular plaque on north side of entrance.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

I.10.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Coloured terracotta decorated circular plaque on north side of entrance.

I.10.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Structure on west wall of insula to the south of I.10.9.

I.10.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Structure on west wall of insula to the south of I.10.9. Looking north along the Vicolo del Citarista. 

I.10.9 Pompeii. March 2009.

Structure on west wall of insula to the south of I.10.9. The grating of the Sarno canal of Domenico Fontana is south of the structure.

I.10.9 Pompeii, on left. September 2004.        Looking south along the Vicolo del Citarista.                             I.3, on right.

I.10 Pompeii, on left. September 2005.     Looking south along the Vicolo del Citarista.                                  I.3, on right.