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. W. 986. Room 22, looking west from large exedra towards peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 22, looking south towards doorway to room 24 on left, and mosaic floor of peristyle on right.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 979. East side of peristyle, with large doorway to room 22, (on left) and doorway to room 24(on right).
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.1029. East side of peristyle, with doorway to room 22, on left, and to room 24, on right.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 980. Room 24, north wall, with doorway to room 22 on left, and room 25 on right.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 981. Room 24, east wall, and doorway and window to room 25.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 982. Room 24, south-east corner.
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VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 983. Remains of wall plaster on north wall of upper room above room 25.
The doorway in the north-west corner of room 25, leads into room 24.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 25, looking across black and white carpet mosaic, also using red
tesserae.
See Blake,
M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early
Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.83, & Pl.22, tav.3).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 984. Room 25, upper wall in north-east corner.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 949.
Room 26, corridor at rear of large exedra, looking north towards pseudo-peristyle.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W. 960.
Corridor 26, looking north along corridor towards pseudo-peristyle, past two doorways into room 22, the large exedra.
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Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south.
Corridor 26 at rear of large exedra leading to rooms 27, 28 and 29, rustic rooms at the rear of VI.9.7.
Originally this did not connect with VI.9.7.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 28, rustic room, still part of VI.9.6
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.
Looking north from rustic room 28, into room 25 of VI.9.6 and doorway in north-west corner to room 24.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 27, corridor on south side of room 28, still part of VI.9.6.
Originally this corridor would have only led to the second rustic room 29.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 27, corridor on south side of room 28, still part of VI.9.6
Looking west past entrance to room 18, the stable area with doorway at VI.9.8.
Originally the corridor would have been bricked without a doorway, where the stone blocks cross the corridor floor.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 29, rustic room, still part of VI.9.6