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.                                   Part 10.

 

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VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, looking east across tablinum.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Found on 18^th June 1828 in room 9, on the north wall of the tablinum.

Remains of wall painting of Achilles drawing his sword to fight Agamemnon.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9104.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1307).

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, south wall of tablinum.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Found on 18^th June 1828 in room 9 at the east end of the south wall of the tablinum.

Wall painting of satyr and maenad in flight. Found on east side of painting of Achilles at Skyros.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9134.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (515, 522, 523, 529).

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii.

Found on 18^th June 1828 in room 9, the central panel on the south wall of the tablinum.

Wall painting of Achilles discovered by Ulysses at Skyros.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9110.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1297).

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Found on 18^th June 1828 in room 9, at the west end of the south wall of the tablinum.

Wall painting of satyr and maenad in flight. Found on west side of painting of Achilles at Skyros.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9135.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (515, 522, 523, 529).

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Found on 18^th June 1828 in room 9, on south wall of tablinum.

Upper centre section frieze. Wall painting of a woman offering a drink to a traveller.

It has also been interpreted as “Oedipus and the Sphynx” or as a magician predicting the future.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9106.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, wall painting of floating figure, from south wall of tablinum.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, painted balcony, from south wall of tablinum.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking east across tablinum to rear garden wall.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor to rear.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Remains of stucco plaster on atrium wall between tablinum and corridor.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor and stairs.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, corridor.

Stairs to upper floor on north wall of corridor.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, looking north from atrium.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, east wall.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 11, remains of supports for benches around the west, north and east walls.

 

 

 

 

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