VI.17.10 Pompeii. Casa della Danzatrice or Casa di Diana I.

Linked to VI.17.9 and VI.17.11. First excavated 1764.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance doorway with steps.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Ramp in pavement outside entrance doorway on Via Consolare.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west across atrium from entrance.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007. South side of atrium from entrance.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Steps to lower floor, on south side of entrance.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007.  North side of entrance and atrium, remains of three rooms. 

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007.

Remains of sacrarium? or remains of staircase to upper floor?, on north side of entrance.

According to Boyce, Fiorelli reported here a shrine, no longer to be seen:

“La casa……tiene ai lati della porta un sacrario”.

Fiorelli, Descr., 432.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.59, no.231)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.159)

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Atrium looking west.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Atrium with remains of impluvium?

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. May 2010. Wall painting found 12th November 1763.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 8603.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. May 2010. Wall painting found 12th November 1763.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 8604.

 

          

VI.17.10 Pompeii. May 2010. Wall painting found 12th November 1763.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 1172.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. May 2010.

Wall painting found 3rd December 1763, depicting the liberation of Andromeda.

She is still chained to the rock whilst Perseus battles the sea monster close to the shore.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 9477.

 

VI.17.10 Pompeii. May 2010. Wall painting found 3rd December 1763.

Hesione, daughter of Laomedon, is freed by Hercules.

She had been left on the beach at Troy, which was being menaced by a sea monster.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 9445.