VIII.1.4 Pompeii. Antiquarium. Opened either 1861 (Maiuri) or 1873-4 (SAP).

Including the Larario dei Pompeianisti which was opened in 1948.

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Museo Pompeiano. 1877 and 1897. Extract from Guides to Pompei

Below are the pages from Fiorelli's two guides to Pompeii 1897 and 1877 showing the items in the Museo Pompeiano at those times.

The corresponding pages are shown next to each other to allow comparisons to be made.

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei. (p.91-110 are below).

See Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p. 87-108 are below).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei, (p.87) and Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.91).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Old pre-1943 undated photo showing some of the contents of the antiquarium listed by Fiorelli in his guide.

Left of the doorway is the reconstructed door, right is the cast of an ancient door with locks and left the reconstructed cupboard, all drawn by Gusman (see below).

Photo courtesy Dr Sophie Hay.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Drawing by Gusman of reconstructed door.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p. 254.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Drawing by Gusman of cast of an ancient door with locks.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p. 255.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.88) Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei. (p.92)

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Drawing by Gusman of a reconstructed wooden cupboard (apotheca) from the Museum of Pompeii.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, (p.276)

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.89). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.93).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. About 1875. Cast of watch dog (Victim number 8). Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

See Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.89 above, No. 44).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.90). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.94).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. February 2021. Inscription as seen in Fiorelli, 1897, p.94, No.2 above, and 1877, p.90, No. 43, above.

Limestone inscription recording the rebuilding of the town walls in about 70BCE after the damages caused by Sulla’s siege, found in VII.1.40.

Parco Archeologico Pompei, inv. 34188.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

According to the Epigraphic Database Roma this reads:

[·] C̲u̲s̲p̲i̲u̲s T(iti) f(ilius), M(arcus) Loreiu[s] M(arci) f(ilius),
duoviṛ(i), [d(e)] d(ecurionum) s(ententia) mụrum [e]t
plumaṃ fac(iunda) coer(averunt) eideṃq(ue) pro(baverunt)      [CIL X, 937].

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.91). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.95).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.92). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.96).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. 1900. Drawing by Gusman of Gargoyle of a gutter, terracotta, from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p.402.

Please note the captions in the English version are reversed on the gutter and the bas relief from the French version of the book.

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.96 above, No. 195), and See Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.92 below, No.195).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. C.1900. Drawing by Gusman of earthenware vessels and amphorae in the Museum of Pompeii.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p.231

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. C.1900. Drawing by Gusman of terracotta money boxes in the Museum of Pompeii.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p.215

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. 1961.

Terracotta money box, as shown in Gusman's drawing? 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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VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.93). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.97).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.94). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.98).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium.

Drawing by Gusman of a terracotta patera for libations to the Gods of the hearth, from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p.116.

I.14.15 Pompeii. Terracotta altar in the shape of a cradle. SAP inventory number 34973.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium.

Drawing by Gusman of terracotta braziers of a domestic altar from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p.116.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium.

Drawing by Gusman of a terracotta brazier of a domestic altar from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p. 116.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.95). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.99).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.96). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.100).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.97). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.101).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.98). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.102).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Terracotta water-spouts in form of masks. (Grondaia in forma di maschere.)

The height of the lowest mask is 6 inches and the width is 5 ½ inches.

The height of the upper mask, on the left-hand side, is also 6 inches and the width is 5 inches.

The height of the upper mask, on the right-hand side is 4 ½ inches and the width is 3 inches.

They are in the Museum at Pompeii.

See Briggs, R.A. (1911). Pompeian Decorations. London.: Batsford (see Fiorelli 1897, p.102 above, XIX, 887-911.)

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.99). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.103).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. April 2022.

Terracotta slabs with nereids on tritons (from Pompeii), which may have been found during the excavation of the foundations of the Greek temple.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta slabs with nereids on tritons (from Pompeii).

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

(These may have been found during the excavation of the foundations of the Greek temple.

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, Museo Pompeiano terracotta items, above (see p.103, nos 975-84).)

VIII.1.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Terracotta slabs with nereids on tritons (from Pompeii). Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta slabs with nereids on tritons (from Pompeii).

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

(These may have been found during the excavation of the foundations of the Greek temple.

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, p.103, terracotta items. (above).)

VIII.1.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Terracotta slabs with nereids on tritons (from Pompeii). Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VIII.1.4, Antiquarium, Pompeii. Terracottas in Pompeii Museum, March 1879.

Painting by Sydney Vacher of Terracotta fragments in basso-relief of a Nereid sitting on the back of a seahorse

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4439-1910.

According to Fiorelli – there were quite a number of fragments of these “grondaia” (waterspouts) on display, numbered 975-84.

These were described as:

“frammenti di grondaia, esibenti in bassorilievo una Nereide seduta sul dorso di un cavallo marino”.

See Fiorelli, G. Guida di Pompei, 1897, (p.103).

VIII.1.4, Antiquarium, Pompeii. c.1879? Watercolour by Sydney Vacher, of a Nereid sitting on the back of a seahorse

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4440-1910.

VIII.1.4, Antiquarium, Pompeii. Drawings of terracottas of Nereids.

See Niccolini F, 1890. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Terzo. Napoli. (Tav. XXXIX).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.100). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.104).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Drawing by Gusman of small bells from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, p.128.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.101). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.105).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.102). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.106).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.103). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.107).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.104). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.108).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.105). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.109).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. April 2022.

Small cups containing the pigments used to decorate the walls. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii. February 2021. Small cups containing the pigments used to decorate the walls.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii. February 2021. Detail of some of the small cups containing the pigments used to decorate the walls.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

Pompeii. 1972. Paint colours. 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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VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.106). Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.110).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Drawing by Gusman of terracotta Telamon supporting a table, from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, (p.402).

According to Fiorelli, in the museum was a terracotta telamon, kneeling, and supporting a table on his head (Reg. VII. Ins. occid. n. 10).

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.110 above, No. 1) and See Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.108 below, No.1).

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. 1970. Fragment of fresco of Narcissus from VII.15.2. SAP 20877.

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.110 above, No.2) and See Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.108 below, No.2).

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Drawing by Gusman of marble foot of table, monopodium, from Pompeii Museum.

See Gusman P., 1900. Pompeii: The City, Its Life & Art. London: Heinemann, (p.398).

According to Fiorelli, the table-leg was made of coloured marble leaning on which was a herm made from “giallo antico” which represented a Bacchante crowned with vine-leaves and pinecones.

See Fiorelli, G., 1897. Guida di Pompei, (p.110 above) and See Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.108 below).

VIII.1.4, Antiquarium, Pompeii. c.1870’s. Drawings/watercolours by Sydney Vacher, of items from “museum Pompei”

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4435-1910.

VIII.1.4 Pompeii Antiquarium. Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei, (p.107). Fiorelli, G., 1877. Guida di Pompei. (p.108).

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