VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway, looking west.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. May 2015. Vicolo dei Vettii outside entrance doorway, showing lead pipes in pavement.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Vicolo dei Vettii outside VI.13.13 showing lead pipes in pavement, December 2007.
Vicolo dei Vettii outside VI.13.13 and VI.13.14, Pompeii, showing lead pipes in pavement. 1968.
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.
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VI.13.13 Pompeii. May 2015. Detail of lead pipes in Vicolo dei Vettii. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. May 2015. Detail of lead pipes in Vicolo dei Vettii. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking west across atrium, from entrance fauces. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across atrium, from entrance corridor.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking west from entrance doorway.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 1787.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. May 2015. Detail of flooring of entrance vestibule. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. Painting by Discanno of (at bottom) threshold mosaic, and (above) emblema from middle of flooring in triclinium/oecus.
According to Presuhn, No.13,14,15,18 –
“a large patrician dwelling extending across the insula and having a rear door at VI.13.18.
His photo preproduces a mosaic found on the threshold at entrance no.13.
See Presuhn, E. Pompei les dernières
fouilles de 1874-75, section VI, plate IV lower.
VI.13.13 Pompeii,
c.1930. Looking east from atrium, across entrance
mosaic, towards vestibule and entrance doorway.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.79, & Pl.25, tav.3).
VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west across impluvium, towards tablinum and peristyle.
VI.13.13 Pompeii.
September 2005. Impluvium in atrium.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west from tablinum to peristyle and garden.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Peristyle and garden.
According to Boyce, against the west wall of the peristyle stands a simple aedicula.
Above a base two side walls support a roof with small pediment, protecting a vaulted niche.
The whole structure is coated with a layer of white stucco.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.52, no.195, and Pl.35,4)
VI.13.13 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards the tablinum on west side of atrium, and into the peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 853.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west across atrium towards tablinum.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south-west across atrium to doorway to triclinium, in west wall of ala on south side of atrium.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west into doorway of triclinium, and towards doorway to peristyle in rear wall of it.
According to Presuhn, this triclinium (or oecus “c”) would have also had a mosaic similar to the one on the entrance threshold.
In the centre would have been an emblema decorated with rose ornament set into a garland with red, green and yellow polychrome tesserae.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. c.1930. Looking across flooring in triclinium/oecus, towards doorway to atrium.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.76,81, & Pl.42, tav 1).
VI.13.13 Pompeii. Pre-1937-1939. Detail of floor mosaic.
In the centre was an “emblema” with rose ornament set into a garland with red, green and yellow polychrome tesserae.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection no. 369.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. Painting by Discanno of (above) emblema from middle of flooring in triclinium/oecus.
According to Presuhn, No.13,14,15,18 –
“a large patrician dwelling extending across the insula and having a rear door at VI.13.18.
This painting reproduces a mosaic emblema found on the floor of the oecus.
See Presuhn, E. Pompei les dernières fouilles de 1874-75,
section VI, plate IV upper.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorways to rooms on north side of atrium.
On the left, the tablinum, then doorway to oecus with corridor to rear, the north ala, and cubiculum on the right.
VI.13.13 Pompeii. September 2005. North-west corner of atrium, with doorway to oecus containing a corridor to the rear rooms.
The doorways to the kitchen and latrine, and a storeroom can be seen.