VI.1.2 Pompeii. Caupona with Thermopolium.
Linked to VI.1.3. Excavated 1770, 1784 and 1787.
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VI.1.2 Pompeii. July 2011. Entrance doorway, looking east. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Counter, looking south-east.
According to Parslow, this counter originally had decorative heads built into its street facade.
Even as far back as 1794, thieves successfully extracted one of the two sculpted heads immured in the counter of this bar/shop.
See Parslow, C., (2001). The Open-Air Excavations at Pompeii in the Eighteenth Century: New Methods, New Problems. In Pompei, Scienza e Societa, ed by P.G. Guzzo. Milan, Electa, p. 19-28.
According to Fiorelli in PAH
This past night they stole one of the two heads remaining in the counter of the shop of the hot drinks, adjoining the city gate; the stolen was one that represented a woman.
They had tried to remove the other, but it is believed that they had run out of time, because they had needed to break it from the chain that it was attached to.
Sig. La Vega has decided to remove it, which he should.
See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 2, 54: 20th February 1794.
See Hamilton, W., 1777. Account of the Discoveries at Pompeii. London: Bowyer and Nichols, p. 13, Plate IX.
The counter of the bar at VI.1.2 can be seen on the left of the above drawing.
According to Parslow “… theft had long been the biggest fear in leaving anything in situ and had influenced the decision to rebury the ruins in the early years.
Despite the construction of guard houses and the posting of additional sentinels, however, thieves successfully extracted one of the 2 sculpted heads immured in the counter of a shop (reg. VI.1.2), by the Porta di Ercolano in 1794”.
See Parslow, C., (2001). The Open-Air Excavations at Pompeii in the Eighteenth Century: New Methods, New Problems. In Pompei, Scienza e Societa, ed by P.G. Guzzo. Milan, Electa, p. 23-24.
See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 2, 54: 20th February 1794.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across counter.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across hearth and counter to Via Consolare.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking across counter and hearth, from rear. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking towards north side of counter, at its eastern end near the hearth.
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Hearth at end of counter.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Small room on south side of VI.1.2 linking to VI.1.4.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Counter with marble top, hearth and display shelves.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room on north side of caupona.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of room on north side of caupona.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of room on north side of caupona.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of room on north side of caupona.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room on east side of caupona.
VI.1.2 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of room on east side of caupona.