VI.9.4 Pompeii. Casa del Centauro or Casa di A. Vettius Caprasius Felix.

Secondary entrance, with stairs to upper floor. Linked to VI.9.5. (Strada di Mercurio 13).

 

VI.9.3      VI.9.5      VI.9.10      VI.9.11      VI.9.12      VI.9.3-5 and VI.9.10-12 Plan

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east.

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. W672. Entrance doorway.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

See http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/231240

 

VI.9.4 and VI.9.5 Pompeii. W 664. Façade and entrance doorways on Via Mercurio.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

See http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/231238

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south on Via di Mercurio, towards doorway to VI.9.4.

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east from entrance into room 15. 

According to Fiorelli, this was a room with a staircase to the upper floor and a separate entrance doorway to the Via di Mercurio.

He also said that at some time a servant name Paris wrote his graffito for posterity –

 

Paris hic

fuit

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.65)

 

Paris was here   (CIL IV 1305)

See Berry, J., 2007. The Complete Pompeii. London: Thames & Hudson. (p.103)

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, looking towards north wall from entrance. 

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 15, looking towards south wall and doorway into fauces 14 and atrium 16 of VI.9.5, from entrance. 

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. June 2012. Looking east across floor in room 15. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Floor in room 15, looking east. 

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. June 2012. Base of north wall, and downpipes. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, base of north wall. 

 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007.

Remains of a terracotta down-pipe from the upper floor rooms in north-west corner of room 15 below.

 

 

 

VI.9.3      VI.9.5      VI.9.10      VI.9.11      VI.9.12      VI.9.3-5 and VI.9.10-12 Plan