VI.14.22 Pompeii. Fullonica di Marcus Vesonius Primus

or Fullonica di Balbino or Babino or Balbinus or Tito Babinio Alessandro.

Excavated 1874 to 1877. Linked to VI.4.21.

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VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance corridor.

VI.14.21 on the left, and VI.14.22 on the right. Pompeii. December 2005.

According to Della Corte, these graffiti were found on the front of these entrances:

Caecilium  Capellam

d(uum)  v(irum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)

Cornelia  rog(at)      [CIL IV 3479]

He thought Cornelia may have been the wife of Vesonius Primus.

[C]n(aeum)  Helvium  Sabinum

aed(ilem)  Primus  cum  suis  rog(at)      [CIL IV 3482]

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this graffito ends with the word “fac(iat)” and not “rog(at)”

Also found here was a graffito that read:

Proculum

aed(ilem)  Felicio

lupinipolus  rog (at)     [CIL IV 3483]

This was similar to the one from the opposite side of the road (see V.1.25 [CIL IV 3423]) and led him to think it named the owner of the shop there.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.100)

VI.14.22 Pompeii. 1876. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.

Looking towards the entrance doorway to the Fullonica or House of the Dyers, in the Via del Vesuvio, at Pompeii.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 2055-1900.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, atrium from entrance corridor.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2004. Room 1, atrium.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. May 1886. Atrium. Fullonica with marble impluvium, basin, table and pedestal.

Old photograph courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, marble impluvium in atrium, with marble table and trough.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, marble table or cartibulum, pedestal and trough in impluvium in atrium.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, rear of marble table or cartibulum in atrium.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. 1937-39. Room 1, detail of marble table or cartibulum in atrium.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.

Warsher collection no. 1800.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, south-east corner of atrium, looking into VI.14.21.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 1, looking west along south side of atrium, and doorways to rooms 2, 3 and 4.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 2.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, decorated floor.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 3.

VI.14.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, decorated floor.

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