VI.4.1 Pompeii. Workshop or thermopolium. Excavated 1804, 1809.
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2006.
Looking south from
junction of Via Consolare with Vicolo del Farmacista
(on right).
VI.4.1 Pompeii.
1824 drawing showing façade, street shrine and snake painting.
See Mazois, F., 1824.
Les Ruines de Pompei: Second Partie. Paris: Firmin Didot. (Pla. 6, fig. 2).
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway with counter.
According to Della
Corte, this thermopolium or workshop was always described in the old
bibliographies as an “officina farmaceutica”
Why? Many chemical preparations and many jars
with dried medicines and pills were found here.
As medical substances,
they are unknown, however as the results have never been analysed.
The notion that it was
an “officina farmaceutica”, however was, and stays,
simply circumstantial.
See Della Corte, M.,
1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto
Fiorentino. (p.42)
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2006.
Two-sided marble counter without urns, but with hearth or oven.
According to
Eschebach, this had a three-sided counter.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.166)
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2006.
Looking south across
counter towards rear room, and small room, on the right, possibly a latrine.
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2006.
Looking south-east
from entrance, towards podium, linked to VI.4.2, and doorway to room in
south-east corner, possibly a cubiculum.
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2005.
Looking south from entrance at VI.4.2, towards rear room,
possibly a cubiculum of VI.4.1.
VI.3
Pompeii. September 2004.
Looking south along Via Consolare with
VI.4.1, on right.
VI.4.1 Pompeii. May 2006.
Thermopolium and Vicolo del Farmacista from Via Consolare, looking south.
VI.17 Pompeii. December 2006.
Vicolo del Farmacista looking north to VI.3 on east side of Via
Consolare.
On the right is the
side wall of VI.4.1.