VI.8.15 Pompeii. Shop with dwelling.

Excavated 1826? (Strada di Mercurio 43).

VI.8.15 Pompeii. July 2011. Entrance doorway, looking west from Via Mercurio. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.8.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking west across shop-room. On the left are the remains of the steps to the upper floor, on the south side of the doorway into the middle rear room. Graffito was found on the pilaster on the right, between 15 and 16 (see VI.8.16)

VI.8.15 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking west across shop-room.

On the left are the remains of the steps to the upper floor, on the south side of the doorway into the middle rear room.

Graffito was found on the pilaster on the right, between 15 and 16 (see VI.8.16)

VI.8.15 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway, and north wall.

VI.8.15 Shop with dwelling

VI.8.15 Pompeii. December 2005. North wall of shop.

VI.8.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking across middle rear room, with lararium niche and doorway in west wall. The doorway has two steps to another small rear room.

VI.8.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking across middle rear room, with lararium niche and doorway in west wall.

The doorway has two steps to another small rear room.

VI.8.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Lararium niche in west wall.

VI.8.15 Pompeii. c.1930s photo by Tatiana Warscher. Lararium niche in west wall.
According to Boyce, this arched niche was in the south wall of the rear room, with heavy projecting floor.
Its walls were coated with yellow stucco.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 49, no. 170, and Pl. 2, 1)

VI.8.15 Pompeii. c.1930s photo by Tatiana Warscher. Lararium niche in west wall.

According to Boyce, this arched niche was in the south wall of the rear room, with heavy projecting floor.

Its walls were coated with yellow stucco.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 49, no. 170, and Pl. 2, 1)