V.6.a, V.6.b, V.6.c Pompeii.

Only the western and southern street fronts have been excavated, c.1902, 1905-8.

V.6.a/b/c. Pompeii. October 2023.

Looking east along north side of Via delle Nozze d'Argento. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.6 Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento from Via del Vesuvio looking east at V.6.a/b/c. May 2005.

According to NdS –

“In the opposite wall there are three doorways: the wall on the sides of the first (doorway) was unadorned, the one on the sides of the second (doorway) bears a high zoccolo of signinum, the wall on the sides of the third (doorway) a zoccolo painted in imitation of colored marble slabs and with white plaster at the top.”

(Nella parete opposta vi son tre vani:la parete ai lati del primo era affatto disadorna, quella ai lati del secondo reca un alto zoccolo di signino, quella ai lati del terzo uno zoccolo dipinto ad imitazione di lastre marmoree colorate e un intonaco bianchiccio in alto.)

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1910, (p.378).

V.6 Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento from Via del Vesuvio looking east at V.6.a/b/c. December 2006.

The first blocked doorway, V.6.a on the left, would have been the rear entrance of V.6.1.

According to Cooley, somewhere on the façade of V.6.b/c, that is between the second and third blocked doorway, CIL IV 7034 was found:

Cn. Helvius Sabinus for [duum]vir.    [CIL IV 7034]

(Cooley thought this was probably a mistake by the writer of the notice.

According to Cooley, Marcus Epidius Sabinus was a candidate for duumvir in the same year as Helvius Sabinus was candidate for aedile.

This is what presumably confused the writer of the graffito.)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), it would have read:

Cn(aeus)  Helvium  Sabinum  [II] vir(um)     [CIL IV 7034]

V.6 a, Pompeii. October 2023.

Doorway on north side of Via delle Nozze d'Argento. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.6 b, Pompeii. October 2023.

Doorway on north side of Via delle Nozze d'Argento. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.6 c, Pompeii. October 2023.

Doorway on north side of Via delle Nozze d'Argento. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.6 on north side (right) of Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento. September 2021.

Looking west from near V.1.11. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.1.11 Pompeii, on the left. May 2005. Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento, looking west. On the right is the blocked vicolo between V.6 and V.7.

Then on the corner of V.6.c, opposite the rear entrance at V.1.11/12, would have been the graffiti below.

According to Della Corte, two graffiti were found on the right side of the entrance doorway of V.6.c.

These he said, proved that the inhabitant of the house was Circineo Crescente.

Circinaeus  hic  habitat      [CIL IV 7037]

Circinaeus  Cresce(n)s  hic  (habitat)      [CIL IV 7067]

Della Corte said that Circineo Crescente also declared himself indebted to the author of the notice painted on the corner of the insula:

Stercorari, ad murum progredere. Si presus fueris, poena patiare necesse est, cave.   [CIL IV 7038]

A 1963 translation was -

Evacuator, go near the wall. If they catch you in the fact, you will pay dear for your fault. Be careful.

See Pompeii: A little guide with 21 illustrations. Pompei: Tipografia Sicignano, 1963.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 7038 may be read as:

Stercorari

ad murum

progredere si

pre(n)sus fueris poena(m)

patiare neces(s)e

est cave

According to Varone and Stefani, CIL IV 7038 was painted on the south-east corner. It is no longer visible.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.307)

The picture on page 307, dated around 1905, does show the graffito in situ.

It may have been found on the west side of the corner of the blocked vicolo, where a whitish patch can be seen on the wall in the photo above.

Pompeii. Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento, looking west along north side. May 2006. V.6.a/V.6.b/V.6.c, on right.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1910, (pp. 378-385, for finds in this area.)

Pompeii. May 2005. Blocked vicolo, north from Via delle Nozze d’Argento, at the time unexcavated.

This was partially excavated in 2018/9 and now forms a continuation of the Vicolo di Cecilio Giocondo.