IX.5.18 Pompeii. Casa di Jasone or House of Jason.

Linked to IX.5.19, IX.5.20 & IX.5.21. Excavated 1878.

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The room numbers on this page follow the room numbers used in Zevi, F., 1964. La Casa Reg IX.5.18-21 a Pompei e le sue pitture: Studi Miscellanei 5. Roma: Bretschneider.  This provides direct reference back to the book. 

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room a, entrance doorway with east wall of fauces.

According to Cooley, found beside the doorway was the graffito CIL IV 5112.

She translates it as –

Learn: while I am alive, you, hateful death, are coming.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.78)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), it read as –

Discite dum vivo mors

inimica venis      [CIL IV 5112]

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room a, entrance with west wall of fauces.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room b.

Looking north across atrium which also served as a garden in this house.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. Old water colour painting, looking north-east across atrium.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room b, rectangular pool.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room b, rectangular pool and column with fountain jet.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Doorway to room c.

Small room on west side of entrance corridor with outline of stairs in wall.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room c, from the east looking west.

The back of room c is on the right.

Room d is at the rear on the left, past the entrance at IX.5.19.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room d, looking west to doorway to room e.

Two rooms in south-west corner.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005.

Room e, cubiculum, second room in south-west corner with two corner windows.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005.

Room e, south wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of Phaedra handing the nurse the letter that will lead to the death of her stepson Hippolytus.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 114322.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005.

Room e, west wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of Medea sitting contemplating killing her children who play nearby.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 114321.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005.

Room e, north wall of cubiculum, second room in south-west corner.

Wall painting of seated Paris waiting for the prize promised by Aphrodite.

The cupid in the doorway points to Helen.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 114320.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. May 2005. Room f, west wall of large triclinium on west side of atrium.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. June 2009. Room f, west wall of triclinium.

Wall painting of Jason and Pelias.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 111436.

 

IX.5.18 Pompeii. June 2009.

Room f, west wall of triclinium, wall painting of Jason and Pelias  

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 111436.

Photograph May 2001 courtesy of Current Archaeology.

 

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