V.4.b Pompeii. House. Excavated 1901.
Badly damaged in bombing of 1943.
V.4.b Pompeii. June 2012.
Looking north along Vicolo di Lucrezio Frontone towards entrance doorway, on centre right. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.
V.4.b Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east.
According to Garcia y Garcia, this small house was badly hit by a falling bomb, during the night of 16th September 1943.
This led to the destruction of the entrance corridor, the atrium and some rooms to the north.
He wrote, it remained forgotten without any restoration.
During the 1982 control for the RICA plans, he saw the debris of the bombed rooms still heaped up, in situ.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.62)
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across atrium.
![V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Large triclinium, on north side of entrance corridor.
According to Warscher, in the dining room one could still see a triclinium which in some places, still had green stucco with remains of red points.
See Warscher, T., 1925. Pompeji: Ein Führer durch die Ruinen. Berlin und Leipzig: de Gruyter. (p.127)
According to Small, a graffito on the wall of a triclinium gave the names of the planetary deities in the order in which we know them, (CIL IV.6779). Mercury was already illegible when the house was excavated in 1901.
See Small, A.M: Religion in the Roman period, in
See Dobbins, J. J. and Foss, P. W., 2008. The World of Pompeii. Oxford: Routledge. (p.197)
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 6779, reads as –
Saturni
Solis
Lunae
Martis
[[Mercuri]]
Iovis
Veneris](5%2004%20b_files/image010.jpg)
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Large triclinium, on north side of entrance corridor.
According to Warscher, in the dining room one could still see a triclinium which in some places, still had green stucco with red points.
See Warscher, T., 1925. Pompeji: Ein Führer durch die Ruinen. Berlin und Leipzig: de Gruyter. (p.127)
According to Small, a graffito on the wall of a triclinium gave the names of the planetary deities in the order in which we know them, (CIL IV.6779).
Mercury was already illegible when the house was excavated in 1901.
See Small, A.M: Religion in the Roman period, in Dobbins, J. J. and Foss, P. W., 2008. The World of Pompeii. Oxford: Routledge. (p.197)
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 6779, reads as –
Saturni
Solis
Lunae
Martis
[[Mercuri]]
Iovis
Veneris
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Exedra on north side of atrium.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Exedra on north side of atrium.
On the south side of the exedra, would have been another small room and staircase to upper floor.
On 16th September 1943 a bomb fell here, destroying the prothyron, the atrium and some rooms to the north.
V.4.b Pompeii. May 2005. Exedra on north side of atrium.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to exedra, looking north.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway from exedra to the small garden in the north-east corner.
V.4.b Pompeii. May 2005. Small garden area in north-east corner of atrium.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to small garden, looking east.
According to Jashemski –
the small raised garden in the north-east corner of the house (excavated in 1901) had a small portico on the south-west corner.
This portico was supported by two masonry columns.
The east end of the portico had been made into the kitchen.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.117)
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Downpipe from upper floor in north-west corner of small garden.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. North-east corner of small garden.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Triclinium in small garden, looking south-east.
According to Jashemski, the masonry triclinium occupied a large part of the garden, (L.medius 3.00m; l. imus and l. summus, 2.69m).
It had a round table, 0.65m in diameter. The lectus imus had a fulcrum (head support).
There were three large round holes in the masonry couches, perhaps for holding the posts for a pergola.
Jashemski sources
–
Mau, RM
(1901), p.363;
Sogliano, NSc, (1901), p.261, 330, 331, and plan on
p.329;
Soprano, p.299,
no. 11;
Dohl, p.14.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.117).
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Triclinium in small garden, looking north-east.
According to
Soprano –
11. Reg.V.Ins.4.
Abitazione attigua a quella di Lucrezio Frontone.
Ubicazione:
giardino. L. medius, m.300; l. imus e l. Summus, m.269; diametro
della mensa, m.0.65.
Bibliog. “Not.Scavi”,
1901, p. 329; “Rom. Mitt” 1901, p.363.
Il triclinio, non
addossato a muri, occupa tutta l’area del piccolo viridario, circondata da un
portichetto.
I piani dei letti
sono inclinati; i letti sono di eguale lunghezza.
La mensa era
circolare. Essa e i letti non presentano tracce di intonaco. Il l. imus
era fornita di fulcrum.
V.4.b Pompeii. May 2005. Site of triclinium.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. South side of small garden.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across atrium, towards front of house.
V.4.b Pompeii. July 2008.
Looking east towards dividing wall with downpipe, between small garden and kitchen area.
Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium found on the east wall of the atrium, near the kitchen door.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.42, no.129, Pl. 13,1)
V.4.b Pompeii. 1957.
Looking east from the atrium towards the kitchen doorway. 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.4.b Pompeii. 1931. Lararium found on the east wall of the atrium, near the kitchen door.
DAIR 31.2876. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
A heavy shelf with a low raised area for a built-in altar projects from a niche with a slightly arched ceiling.
Within the niche was a crudely done lararium painting on a yellow background.
Above and to the sides hung garlands.
On the back wall of the niche the Genius pours a libation upon a cylindrical altar, on the opposite side of which stands the tibicen.
On the wall outside the niche is a Lar on each side, the one on the right holding rhyton and situla, that on the left rhyton and a cup like a skyphos.
On the left side wall of the niche, between the Lar on that side and the back wall of the niche, is the popa leading a hog.
Below the level of the niche on the left side, is Mercury with petasos, caduceus and purse; behind him, suspended, two crescent-shaped objects.
These three figures on the left side are painted on the column of the peristyle in the south-east corner of the garden.
Immediately below the niche a crested serpent (two serpents according to Sogliano in the Not. Scavi, one according to Mau in the Rom. Mitt.) glides to the left among plants.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.42, no.129, Pl 13,1)
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, p. 117
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni, p.168.
V.4.b Pompeii. 1902 painting of lararium by Luigi Bazzani.
This painting shows the lararium with Genius and tibicen, found on the east wall of the atrium, near the kitchen doorway.
Underneath the niche, to the left on the pillar, was a representation of Mercury.
The pillar was in the south-east corner of the garden portico.
V.4.b Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Painted pillar and lararium from east wall of atrium.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 603.
V.4.b Pompeii. 1937-39. Detail of painted pillar and lararium from east wall of atrium.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 603b.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Painted Lararium niche.
According to Boyce, within the niche and on the surrounding wall was the Lararium painting, on a background of yellow.
On the back wall of the niche the Genius poured a libation upon a cylindrical altar on the opposite side of which stood the tibicen.
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1901, 331; Rom.Mitt., xvi, 1901, 362.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii.
Rome: MAAR 14. (p.42, no.129,
Pl.13,1)
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium. Remains of Tibicen and Genius either side of an altar.
See Giacobello F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni, p.168.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii.
Rome: MAAR 14. (p.42, no.129, pl 13,1).
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to kitchen on east side of atrium.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of kitchen.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of bench or hearth in kitchen.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of column supporting portico.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of both the site of tablinum, and wall of atrium. Painted plaster from site of tablinum?
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across atrium, towards the cubiculum on south side of entrance.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of atrium, doorway to cubiculum, and entrance fauces, looking west.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to cubiculum in south-west corner of atrium.
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of cubiculum.
According to Jashemski, found in this room was a marble head of a leopard which had been used as a fountain.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.117).
V.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across atrium, from south-west corner.