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VII.15.12 Pompeii. September
2005. Entrance doorway to large vestibule.
According to Garcia y
Garcia, the stucco on the external front façade of this small house had been
conserved.
The plaster suffered
damage and fell in 1943 because of the bomb that damaged this nearby house, and
the following one.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p.129)

VII.15.12 Pompeii. September
2005.
Looking south across
vestibule towards corridor to atrium and rear of house.
According to Boyce, in
the east wall of the central atrium-like room was a shallow, rectangular niche
of unusual proportions.
Its walls were coated
with yellow stucco and decorated with red stripes; the Bull. Inst. referred to
it as “forse un larario”.
Bull. Inst., 1874, 71.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.72, no.333)

VII.15.12 Pompeii. September
2005. Looking south.

Fountain between VII.15.12 Pompeii and VII.15.13. September 2005.