IX.2.8 Pompeii. Corridor/Staircase to upper floor.

Linked to IX.2.7. Excavated 1851. (Strada Stabiana 56).

IX.2.7 Pompeii, on left, and IX.2.8, on right. December 2018. Looking east to entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance on Via Stabiana.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking east from entrance.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking east from entrance. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.25.), p. 54.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Looking east from entrance, which took the form of a corridor, or may have been for the servants.

The small house also had an upper floor, as can be shown by the doorway in the upper east wall. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.25a.), p. 54.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. May 2006.

Doorway in east wall, leading to rear. On the south wall can be seen a terracotta downpipe.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking west from rear room, looking towards south-west corner with niche latrine in upper wall and downpipe below.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2018.

Upper south wall with niche latrine. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of niche latrine in upper south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. May 2006. Room in the east rear side. Upper south wall with niche latrine.

The terracotta pipe below the latrine may possibly come from another second storey latrine, or may have just carried water?

See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. P.77, fig 103.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east to small storeroom and kitchen with latrine. The doorway on the left linked to IX.2.7.

IX.2.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Floor surface.