VI.17.13 Pompeii. House of C. Nivillio.

Linked to VI.17.12 and VI.17.14. Excavated from 1763.

VI.17.12, 13 and 14 Pompeii. VI.17.13 is in the centre.

Plan courtesy Dobbins, J. J. and Foss, P. W., 2008. The World of Pompeii. Oxford: Routledge, CD-ROM.

According to Fiorelli –

“VI.17.12-14. Un altra casa teneva sulla via una bottega, di cui sembra caduto il muro di fondo, un adito per la discesa nei sotterranei, e la porta d’ingresso preceduta da vestibolo, a sinistra del quale era un cubicolo. Altri tre cubicoli stavano sul destro lato dell’atrio, di cui essendo sprofondato il tablino, non rimane che una gradinata esistente nella vicina fauce.

See Fiorelli, G. (1875). Descrizione, (p.432-3)

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

(translation -

"VI.17.12-14. Another house which had a shop on the roadway, of which it seemed the rear wall had fallen, a room to descend to lower floors, and the entrance doorway preceded by a vestibule, to the left of which was a cubiculum. Another three cubicula were on the right-hand side of the atrium, the tablinum having collapsed, nothing remained other than a stair existing in the nearby corridor.)

According to Eschebach, Fiorelli’s description may have been imperfect, “shop does not exist”.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.235)

VI.17.14–12 Pompeii. October 2014. Street façade on west side of Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.13–12 Pompeii. October 2014. Street façade and doorways to VI.17.13 with steps, on left, and VI.17.12, on right.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.14–13 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking west to street-front façade. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.14–13 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking north-west along street-front façade. On the left is VI.17.15.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.1 Pompeii, on left. December 2004. Via Consolare looking south. VI.17.13 on right.

VI.17.14 -13 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking south-west towards steps to entrance doorway, on right.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking south-west towards steps to entrance doorway.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2005.  Entrance.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance vestibule with three steps, with door pillars leading to fauces with two steps.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance doorway with Corinthian capital on north side.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Entrance doorway with Corinthian capital on south side.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.

Warsher collection no. 1516.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Door pillars and fauces with two steps.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to cubiculum on south side of entrance, on left.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Cubiculum on south side of entrance, south wall.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2005. East wall and south-east corner of cubiculum on south side of entrance.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south-west across atrium.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west across atrium towards site of steps to lower floor, and collapsed tablinum.

According to Eschebach: there may have been a loggia on the lower floor.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.235)

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorways to rooms on north side of atrium.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorway to first room on north side of atrium, triclinium.

According to Allroggen-Bedel, she could not locate rooms 11 and 12 of VI.17.10, but, she wrote -

“However two rooms in the next door house (VI.17.12-13) meet the description of rooms nos. 11 and 12.

La Vega said that in the space described as no.12, he had discovered a “sotterraneo” (underground room/cellar, etc).

The characteristics of the rooms– bed recess and sotterraneo, were both to be found next to the cellar stairs in VI.17.12.

The room described as no.11 is probably identical with the room next door (VI.17.13), where the remains of the yellow background central zone remains were preserved.”

See Allroggen-Bedel - Die malereien aus dem Haus Insula Occidentalis 10, in Cronache Pompeiane II, 1976 (p.144-183)

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Detail of north wall of the atrium with terracotta infill.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Second room on north side of atrium.

VI.17.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north-west to doorway to second room on north side of the atrium.