IX.12.3 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to IX.12.4.

First excavated 1912. Bombed 1943.

IX.12.1-5 Pompeii. Plan of lower floor and entrances after Spinazzola.

See Spinazzola V., 1953. Pompei alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (anni 1910-1923). Roma: La Libreria della Stato, fig. 680.

IX.12.1-5 Pompeii. Plan of upper floor after Spinazzola.

See Spinazzola V., 1953. Pompei alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (anni 1910-1923). Roma: La Libreria della Stato, fig. 686, p. 716.

IX.12.3-5 Pompeii. Pompeii. October 2023. Looking north to entrance doorways and upper floor room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.12.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance behind glass front.

IX.12.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance behind glass front.

According to Spinazzola,

“On either side of entrance IX.12.4 there were two workshops with large doorways but there was no clue as to the industry carried out in these shops.

The one at IX.12.3 was more modest than IX.12.5, and led into the atrium of IX.12.4, and with very narrow stairway against the left (west) wall, for the exclusive use of the atrium to the upper floor: the other one at IX.12.5 was over 5 metres wide with a rear room, and completely detached from the rest of the house without any communication or doorway.”

See Spinazzola, V. Pompei, alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (Anni 1910-1923), Vol.2, p.716.

IX.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance in centre.

IX.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance with columns above.

IX.12.3-5 Pompeii. November 2016. Upper floor above entrances at IX.12.3-5. Photo courtesy of Marie Schulze.

IX.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Upper floor showing columns.

IX.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Upper floor showing columns

IX.12.5 Pompeii, rear room, on left, IX.12.4, atrium “c”, in centre, and doorway into room “b” into IX.12.3.

May 2010. Looking south-west from above.

IX.12.4 and IX.12.3 Pompeii. 2016/2017. Looking south to rear of upper cenaculum/terrace. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.12.4 and IX.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Taken from the rear. 

Looking south to rear of terrace, and rooms below, with doorway to IX.12.2 (steps to upper floor) on right.

IX.12.5, IX.12.4, IX.12.3 and IX.12.2 and IX.12.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south from rear.

IX.12.5, IX.12.4 and IX.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Taken from the rear. Looking south to rear of terrace, and rooms below.

IX.12.5, IX.12.4 and IX.12.3, Pompeii. March 2009. Showing rear view of upper terrace, and partly excavated rooms below.