VI.7.21 Pompeii. Entrance. Excavated 1830s and 1976.

Linked to VI.7.20 and VI.7.22. (Strada di Mercurio 22).

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, in October 1828 found painted on the street wall was –

P(ublium) Paquium Proculum IIvir(um) vir(um) b(onum) d(ignum) r(ei) [p(ublicae)]

/

A(ulum) Vettium [Caprasi]um Felicem IIvir(um) v(irum) b(onum) d(ignum) r(ei) p(ublicae) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) digni sunt o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)

Q(uintum) Marium [Rufum] M(arcum) Epidium Sabinum aediles v(iis) a(edibus) s(acris) p(ublicis) p(rocurandis) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) digni sunt

S[3]sit[3]sius dealbatore Onesimo    [CIL IV 222]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.140)

VI.7.21 Pompeii. Inscriptions drawn by Gell in his 1930 sketchbook.

See Gell, W. Sketchbook of Pompeii, c.1830.

See book from Van Der Poel Campanian Collection on Getty website http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m16b425

The Epigraphic Database Roma records

Rufum / dig(num) rei p(ublicae)      [CIL IV 220]

M(arcum) Cerrinium Vatiam / aed(ilem) dignum rei p(ublicae) Tyrannus cupiens / fecit cum sodales [CIL IV 221] -  VI, 7, 21, via di Mercurio, accanto alla porta.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. Inscription on Via di Mercurio next to the door.

The Epigraphic Database Roma records

M(arcum) Cerrinium Vatiam

aed(ilem) dignum rei p(ublicae) Tyrannus cupiens

fecit cum sodales      [CIL IV 221]

- VI, 7, 21, via di Mercurio, accanto alla porta.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. July 2011. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. W.1216. Entrance doorway with capital on south side.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.20 Pompeii. 1937-1939. Entrance doorway with capital on south side.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.

Warsher collection no. 412.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. W.1214. Façade and south side of doorway with capital.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across atrium.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across north side of atrium.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. North side of entrance vestibule with small doorway under site of stairs to upper floor.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. South wall of vestibule.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across impluvium and columns.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005. Impluvium in atrium.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-west across impluvium and columns.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. September 2005.

Staircase to upper floor, and corridor through arch to rear and linking with peristyle of VI.7.20.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. December 2006. Staircase.

VI.7.21 Pompeii. W.1215. Looking east across atrium towards entrance doorway, across Via di Mercurio to doorway to VI.9.2.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.20 Pompeii. 1937-1939. Looking east across atrium.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.

Warsher collection no. 414.

VI.7.20 and VI.7.21 from the walls, December 2004.