V.2.4 Pompeii. Casa di Bacco or The House of the Triclinium.

Excavated 1883.

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V.2.4 Pompeii. June 2019.

Looking north-east from entrance doorway towards doorway to room 10 with window in room 9, on its left.

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 10.

V.2.4 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking towards doorway to room 10, and room 11, in south-east corner of atrium, from entrance doorway.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11, looking east from atrium.

V.2.4 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking east along south wall of atrium, and room 11.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 12, arched room under stairs in south-east corner of peristyle.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 12, arched room under stairs.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, arched room under stairs.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, arched room under stairs.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, arched room and stairs on south side of peristyle.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west along room 13, peristyle.

The west wall of the tablinum can be seen on the left, next to which is the doorway to room 14, next to the niche.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Niche on west wall of peristyle.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on west wall of peristyle.

According to Boyce, in the west wall of the peristyle, in the centre of the space beneath the front portico, was an arched niche.

It was coated with white stucco like the walls of the room, except that the floor and the corners were red.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p.34, no.87)

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 14, a room in the south-west corner of the peristyle.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north along west side of peristyle 13.

According to Jashemski –

The peristyle garden at the rear of the tablinum of this caupona (excavated 1884-5) had a portico that had undergone various changes. It was supported by columns and pillars on part of the south, west and north sides.

The low masonry wall near the edge of the garden which outlined its limits on these sides, had a planting area on the south side in the top of the wall. There was a gutter, wider on the south side, just inside this wall.

Graffiti written on the portico just outside the triclinium by the fuller L. Quintilius Crescens give a vivid picture of a banquet held by the fullers in this caupona, etc. (see CIL IV numbers on a photo below).

There is a marble statue base in the garden today. The arched niche in the west wall may have been a lararium.

There is a lararium painting in the south-east corner of the garden.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.111).

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. West portico of peristyle 13.

V.2.4 Pompeii. 1964. Looking towards north-west corner of peristyle 13. 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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V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east along north side of peristyle 13 towards the window and door of the triclinium 15.

According to Della Corte found written in the portico outside the triclinium were many graffiti, acknowledging L. Quintilius Crescens, leader of a merry group of fullones.

Having become extremely drunk from the good wine, they proceeded to make a series of enthusiastic written salutations.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.129)

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.110-11)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), these read as -

Fullo

Cresce(n)s

coponi sal(utem)    [CIL IV 4100]

Cresce(n)s fullonibus salutem

hic et ubiq(ue)         [CIL IV 4120]

Cresces fullonibus et ululae suae sal(utem)

/

ulula est                    [CIL IV 4118]

Fullo

Cresce(n)s

Pompeianis

salutem                     [CIL IV 4102]

Fullo

Cresce(n)ss

Salinesibus

salute(m)                   [CIL IV 4106]

Fullo

Cresce(n)s

Stabianis

salute(m)                   [CIL IV 4109]

Fullo /

Cresce(n)s

S<o=V>rentinis

salutem                      [CIL IV 4103]

Fullo

L(ucius) Quintilius

Cresce(n)s hic

regnatus est              [CIL IV 4107]

Cresces fullonibus

ullulaq(u)e canont    [CIL IV 4112]

V.2.4 Pompeii. 1964. Looking north across peristyle garden 13. 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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V.2.4 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards north side of peristyle 13 at east end.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 011.

V.2.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Several terracotta spouts on a shelf in peristyle 13.

These are spouted rainwater gutters, usually part of the compluvium in the roof.

Rain falling on the roof went through the spouts to fall into the impluvium basin below.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Spouts on a shelf in peristyle 13.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Spouts on a shelf in peristyle 13.

Label says “Elementi di sima dal compluvio”, “Parts of the moulding around the compluvium”.

V.2.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Spouts on a shelf in peristyle 13.

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