IX.14.4 Pompeii. House of M.
Obellius Firmus or Casa di MM. Obellii Firmi, pater et filius
or Casa del Conte di Torino.
Linked to IX.14.2 and IX.14.b. Excavated 1888, 1903, 1910.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south in Peristyle 1.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south along east portico of peristyle 1.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. Looking south along east portico of peristyle 1.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west along ambulatory on north portico of peristyle 1.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards north-east portico of peristyle 1/garden area, from west side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Jashemski, the large peristyle garden which was excavated in 1910, was surrounded by a portico.
The portico was supported by fifteen columns and a pillar. At the rear of the garden was the basin for a fountain.
The peristyle garden opened on the south to a further modest garden, numbered 2.
This was excavated in 1910/11, and Della Corte suggested it was probably a kitchen garden.
At the rear of this garden 2 was a rustic room which Della Corte identified as a kitchen.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.252)
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking across peristyle 1/garden area towards north-east corner, from south side.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking east across south side of garden area 2. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Rustic room/kitchen area, on south side of garden area 2. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.c (on the left) and IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east across rear of excavated insula IX.14.
The kitchen area at the rear of the garden of Obellius Firmus can be seen midway along the south wall.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking south along west wall of garden area 2. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Circular window into room 8 the latrine, looking west from garden area 2. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Square window into room 7, looking west from garden area 2. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Water channel/gutter around the base of the peristyle 1/garden columns. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Cistern-mouth in south-west corner of peristyle 1/garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south across peristyle 1, pool (i) and garden 2.
In the south wall of garden 2 is an open room which della Corte describes as a rustic exedra or a kitchen.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1911,
p. 105.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Pool basin with fountain base. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Pool or fountain (i) in centre of garden.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Detail of the remains of the fountain base, in centre of the pool. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north from rear of garden 2, across peristyle 1 to atrium B.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking north across peristyle and garden area towards atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north-west across garden area 2 to peristyle 1.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north-west across garden and house from unexcavated vicolo.
IX.14.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north-west across columns in atrium B, and unexcavated III.8. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.