VI.12.5 Pompeii. Entrance to
Casa del Fauno or House of the Faun.
Linked to VI.12.1, VI.12.2,
VI.12.3, VI.12.7 and VI.12.8.
Excavated 1829 to 1833, 1900, 1930 and 1960.
Bombed in 1943. Reconstructed in
1945. (Strada della Fortuna 52).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December
2006. Entrance doorway.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943.
Secondary entrance to Tetrastyle atrium.
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.7, n. 5).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. June 2012.
Looking east along pavement outside VI.12.4 and VI.12.5 (top), on north side of Via della Fortuna.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VI.12.5
Pompeii. 1961. Looking north along entrance corridor, towards atrium 7.
DAIR 61.1385. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.12.5
Pompeii. 1960. Fauces/entrance corridor 6, looking north towards atrium 7.
DAIR 60.789. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.12.5
Pompeii. 1939/1940? Looking north across
Tetrastyle atrium 7 from entrance corridor.
Photo ©
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg / Foto: unbekannt; Aufn.-Datum: um 1939/1940?
Aufnahme-Nr. 1.209.410 (Vorschaubild).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south across impluvium and atrium 7 to entrance.
According to Garcia y Garcia, the second of the two bombs to hit the House of the Faun fell on this secondary atrium.
The bomb caused the felling of three of the four columns, the only one remaining was that in the north-east corner.
Also destroyed were two rooms in the north-west of the same atrium.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.83-84)
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south across atrium 7 to entrance.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. 1961. Atrium 7, looking south across impluvium in Tetrastyle atrium 7.
DAIR 61.1384. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Atrium 7, looking south to rooms in south-east corner of atrium 7.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking towards east side of Tetrastyle atrium 7 of VI.12.5 from north-west corner.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Undated photo, c.2000. Looking south towards Tetrastyle atrium 7, from corridor 16. Lower left would be room 51 of VI.12.2.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of capital of column in the atrium 7.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of capital of column in the atrium 7.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. September 2015. Columns surrounding the impluvium of the tetrastyle atrium 7.
Looking east to east ala 14, from area of right ala 11, or corridor that connected the two atria.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006.
Columns surrounding the impluvium of the tetrastyle atrium 7, looking towards east ala 14, from area of west ala 11.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. 1936. Atrium 7, looking west towards east ala 14, from area of west ala 11.
DAIR 72.99 (originally
36.5939). Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east across impluvium in the Tetrastyle atrium 7.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Two capitals on either side of ala 14 to east of Tetrastyle atrium 7.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of capital at the south end of the ala 14 to the east of the Tetrastyle atrium 7.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of capital at the north end of the ala 14 to the east of the Tetrastyle atrium 7.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking across impluvium in atrium 7 towards east ala 14.
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.56, n.81).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. 1934. East ala 14, looking east from atrium 7.
DAIR 34.1830.
Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.12.5 Pompeii, 7th August 1976, taken from VI.12.2. Looking north-east.
On the lower left is the west (right) ala 11 in the centre of the
west side of the tetrastyle atrium.
On the lower right is a cubiculum 10, with a doorway at either
end, connecting the two atria.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides
collection.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-east across atrium 7 and impluvium.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943.
Looking north-east across tetrastyle atrium 7 and impluvium towards a doorway to a triclinium 15, on north side of east ala 14.
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.56, n.79).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking north-east across atrium 7 and impluvium towards doorway to triclinium 15.
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.56, n.80).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. 1968.
Looking north across atrium 7 and impluvium towards corridor in VI.12.2, on eastern side.
Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
J68f1314
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Base for safe/money chest.
According to Warscher –
“If, as I believe, this slab of rosy marble served as a base for the safe, the elegance of the house had to be really refined.
In fact, only a narrow border would have been visible of that slab and most would remain hidden.”
(Se veramente,
come io credo, questa lastra di marmo roseo serviva da basamento alla
cassaforte, l’eleganza della casa doveva essere davvero raffinatissima. Infatti
di tale lastra sarebbe stata visibile solamente uno stretto bordo e la maggior
parte sarebbe rimasta nascosta.)
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.59).
According to Mau,
“Two money chests stood on large flat stones in the rear corners of this atrium 7.”
See Mau, A. (1901). Pompeii, its life and art. (p.296).
VI.12.5
Pompeii. 1961. Atrium 7.
Looking west
across atrium 7 towards west ala 11 and entrance through to VI.12.2, from
outside of east ala 14.
DAIR 61.1386. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.12.5
Pompeii. Undated photo.
Looking
west across Tetrastyle atrium 7 towards atrium of VI.12.2, through doorway in
west ala 11 of VI.12.5 (linked atriums).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. 1968. Looking north across west side of Tetrastyle atrium 7. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
On the left is the partly rebuilt north wall of west ala 11, and the rear rebuilt east wall of ala 30 of VI.12.2, leading into the north-west corner of atrium 7.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
J68f1313
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. North wall of west ala, on west side of tetrastyle atrium 7.
Looking north towards north-west corner of Tetrastyle atrium 7.
According to Warscher –
This shows the wall of the cubiculum with the remains of the
painting of the fourth style – the only example in the whole house.
The room served as a passage between the two atria.
(La parete del
cubicolo no.16 con i resti della pittura del quarto stile – l’unico esempio in
tutta casa.
La camera serviva di
passaggio fra i due atri.)
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.57, n.82).
According to PPM, this is a photo of the secondary atrium and the vestibule 11 (also described as west ala 11).
See PPM, 5, V, (p.116)
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. West side of tetrastyle atrium 7. (On the right is the west ala 11.)
Looking west from Tetrastyle atrium towards doorway of room 10 that also served as a passageway between the two atriums.
In this room, there was a rare example of a perfectly preserved interior window with a piece of glass.
(In camera che
serviva di passaggio fra i due atri, (attraversa la seconda porta si vede la
parete del cubicolo no.17 – sul lato occidentale dell’atrio toscanico) – vi era
un raro sempio di una finestra interna perfettamente conservata con un pezzo di
vetro.)
See Warscher, T. (1946). Casa del Fauno, Swedish Institute, Rome. (p.58, n.83).
According to Garcia y Garcia, in his description of fig. 162 on p.84, same photo as above -he says –
“Atrio
tetrastilo, lato occidentale prima del bombardamento: la finestrella a destra
dell’ingresso era dotato da vetro al momento dello scavo.”
(Foto T. Warscher).
(“Tetrastyle atrium, west side before the 1943 bombing: the small window on the right of the entrance was equipped with glass at the time of excavation”.)
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di
guerra a Pompei. Rome:
L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.84, fig.162).
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Altar with Oscan inscription found in the atrium on 1st January 1831.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 2550.
According to Fiorelli, this altar carried the name of
“Flora” to whom it was dedicated, and a fragment of an inscription with the
name of the Maio(?) Purio.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.72, including a drawing of the inscription).
See Fiorelli G.,
1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 247
VI.12.5 Pompeii. April 2019. Iron stove with bronze lid, on left.
Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5)
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 264932.
See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 249
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Iron stove with bronze lid.
Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5)
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 264932.
See
Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860,
Naples, p. 249
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5).
Iron stove with bronze lid. Now in Naples Archaeological
Museum. Inventory number 264932.
See Fiorelli G.,
1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 249.
VI.12.5 Pompeii. Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5).
Bronze situla or bucket. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 68859.
See
Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia,
Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860,
Naples, p. 249.
Paintings of Sydney Vacher
According to the writing on these paintings, they were from No.51
Strada della Fortuna, described as “Decoration of top of a room”, and on the
left side is written “about 10ft to floor”.
According to CTP, No.51 Strada della Fortuna was VI.12.6.
According to PPM, “This room, (Bottega/shop 4) had a pergula/mezzanine floor lit by a window in the east wall.
The numerous holes for the support beams in the east wall belonged to this
phase of construction. Some small remains of 1st Style wall decoration,
coloured green, were conserved in the south-east corner.”
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. 5. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 91, no.8, described as “Bottega 4”.)
However, these paintings do not seem to agree with the description
of 1st Style, so they are most likely from somewhere else.
Perhaps, they were seen and painted in the rooms in the south-east
corner of the atrium of VI.12.5, at the rear of VI.12.6 and so have also been
included here in VI.12.5.
VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c. March 1879. Painting by Sydney Vacher,
detail from upper wall, described as from Strada della Fortuna 51.
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4383-1910.
VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c.
March 1879.
Painting
by Sydney Vacher described as from Strada della Fortuna 51, detail from upper
wall.
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4380-1910.
VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c.
March 1879.
Painting
by Sydney Vacher described as from Strada della Fortuna 51, “full size” detail
from upper wall.
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4381-1910.
VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c.
March 1879.
Painting
by Sydney Vacher described as from Strada della Fortuna 51, “full size” detail
from upper wall.
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4382-1910.
VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c.
March 1879.
Painting
by Sydney Vacher described as detail from Strada della Fortuna 51.
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4384-1910.