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.
Pseudoperistyle and east side
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor looking west to front of house.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, doorway and window in north-west corner of garden area.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.896. Pseudo-peristyle 17, north-west corner with window to room 21.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.893.
North-west side of pseudo-peristyle 17, with window to room 21 and remains of wall decoration.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 21 on north side of corridor 10.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023.
Room 21, looking
through doorway towards north-west corner. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Undated watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.
Room 21, looking towards east wall with window, and south wall
with doorway to Corridor 10.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 2042-1900.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, south-east corner with doorway to corridor 10.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.924. Room 21, decoration on dado, or zoccolo, south end of east wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023. Room 21, looking west along south wall towards south-west corner. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, south wall, with doorway to corridor 10, on left, and south-west corner, on right.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. January 2023.
Room 21, restored wall painting on south wall of Silenus offering the child Bacchus a bunch of grapes.
Detail from photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, wall painting on south wall of Silenus offering the child Bacchus a bunch of grapes.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (378: p.95).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.308. Room 21, wall painting from south wall of Silenus and child Bacchus.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023.
Room 21, central
painting on south wall and south-west corner. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
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. 1832. Room 21, drawing by Gell of sacred landscape with temple on podium, possibly from west end of south wall.
See Gell, W,
1832. Pompeiana: Vol 2. London:
Jennings and Chaplin, p. 120, pl. XLIX.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. January 2023. Room 21, looking towards south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. December
2023. Room 21, looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of
Miriam Colomer.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. January 2023. Room 21, looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, west wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.922. Room 21, west wall showing central painting and two side panels.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Room 21, south side of west wall showing side panel on south end and central painting of Apollo and Daphne.
See Steeger V.,
1877. Le più belle pareti di Pompei. Torino: Loescher. Fasc. Pt. III, Tav.IV.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Room 21, north side of west wall showing side panel on north end and central painting of Apollo and Daphne.
DAIR 83.90. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, upper part of west wall with decorative stucco.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. January 2023.
Room 21, side panel from south end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, painting on south panel of west wall of a group of figures.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.305. Room 21, south panel of west wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Room 21, south panel of west wall. 19th century watercolour of sacred scene with a group of figures.
DAIR 83.91. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023. Room 21, central panel on west wall. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe
Ciaramella.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. January 2023.
Room 21, central panel on west wall with painting of Apollo and Daphne. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, central painting on west wall of Apollo and Daphne.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (208: p.56).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. January 2023.
Room 21, side panel from north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, painting on north panel of west wall of three figures, one on a column.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 21, north panel of west wall.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1672.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.306, Room 21, north panel of west wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.923. Room 21, west wall dado, or zoccolo.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, north wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, north wall.
According to Bragantini, in the centre of this wall was a painting of Adonis and Eros.
See
Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.216)
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (344)
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, north-east corner, and window in east wall.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 21, floor.