VI.9.6 Pompeii. Casa dei Dioscuri
or House of Castor & Pollux.
Rear entrance at VI.9.9. Excavated 1826, 1828 and 1837.
Linked to VI.9.7 and VI.9.8.
Atrium
Large
peristyle Pseudoperistyle and east side
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023.
Room 8, looking
towards east wall from doorway. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted medallion with two winged figures, from north end of east wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.216. Room 8, painted panel of Cupid and Psyche, from north end of east wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Room 8, 19th century watercolour copy of painted panel of Cupid and Psyche, from north end of east wall.
DAIR 83.97. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, window in east wall looking onto rear garden.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking through window from room 8.
Looking towards south garden wall of area 17, with large window from large exedra, room 22.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted swan in red octagon, from east wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted animal, Sphinx?
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, lower east wall in south-east corner.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023.
Room 8, looking
towards south-east corner and south wall. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, south wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli of Hera sitting on her throne from centre of upper south wall.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 328.
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Another drawing of the same subject by La Volpe was published in Museo Borbonico, IX, tav. XXI. (Helbig 160)
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, remains of painted wall at east end of south wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painting of winged cupid, from the east end of the centre of the south wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painting of sea creature and sea deity, from the centre of the south wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. c.1830. Room 8, drawing by Gell of painting of sea creature and sea deity, from the centre of the south wall.
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
VI.9.6 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 8, painting of deer and leopard, from west end of south wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 8, dado (zoccolo) in south-west corner.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November 2023.
Room 8, looking towards west wall through window from garden
area, with doorway into atrium, on right.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, west wall with doorway into atrium.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted decoration from upper centre of west wall.
Kuivalainen describes the central figure as -
“An enthroned frontal figure holding a cantharus in his right hand and a thyrsus in his left; the hips and legs are covered with a himation.”
He comments that –
“The identification of this partly robed and effeminate figure as Bacchus with his characteristic attributes is more likely than Libera or Ariadne, who are seldom depicted in this pose.”
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.100, B10).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.313. Room 8, detail of figure from west wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.311. Room 8, detail of figure from west wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, wall painting of Minos and Scylla, from the centre of the west wall.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1337: p.297).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.215. Room 8, centre of west wall, drawing of Minos and Scylla, Helbig 1337.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted figure, from the west wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.862. Room 8, north side of doorway, looking north-west across atrium.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
Atrium: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Plan
Large peristyle Pseudoperistyle and east side