IX.1.4 Pompeii. Shop and room. Excavated 1852. (Strada Stabiana 74).

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance on Via Stabiana. Looking east.

Apart from the graffiti found in February 1852, on the pilaster between IX.1.3 and IX.1.4 (on the left), see IX.1.3

In September 1852, the following were also found painted in red on the same pilaster,

 

Ceium  II vir(um)   [CIL IV 944]

 

Helvium  aed(ilem)  [CIL IV 945]

 

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.  (p.167)

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii.  March 2009. 

Stone steps in north east corner of shop with outline of stairs on north wall.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Staircase in north-east corner of shop.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii.  May 2010. East wall with doorway to rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to rear kitchen room in east wall of shop.

In December 1852, an inscription was found in this room:

Carmina(m)

communem ne

arma virumque cano tro   [CIL IV 2361]

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 111970.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.  (p.167)

According to Fiorelli it read:

CARMINA

      COMMVNEMNE

ARMA . VIRVMQVE CANO TRO

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.137)

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Hearth against south wall in rear room.

According to Boyce, somewhere in this shop on an east wall was a panel of special stucco.

In this panel were painted two red serpents confronted at an altar.

A tile was embedded in the wall below their heads, to serve as a shelf for offerings.

There does not appear to be any signs today of either a tile or painting.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.79)

According to Eschebach, the serpents were painted on the right pilaster of the shop room.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.398)

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Remains of hearth in south-east corner of rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Rear room, with remains of hearth.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Underneath hearth.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Plaster on south wall, above hearth in rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Plaster above hearth in south-east corner of rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. May 2010. North-east corner of rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii.  May 2010. Latrine in north-west corner of rear room.

This is described as having two slots at right angles to each other, in the kitchen area with no privacy.

This might suggest a triangular seat.

See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.49 and fig. 64)

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Window in upper east wall of rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Upper south wall of rear room.

 

IX.1.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Shop threshold or  sill.