I.4.25 Pompeii. Domus L.
Rapinasi Optati and I.4.5 Casa del Citarista or House of the Citharist or Casa di Apollo citaredo or House of the
Lyre Player or Domus L Popidius Secundus (Augustianus).
Linked to 1.4.5 and I.4.28. Excavated 1853-1861, 1868, 1872 and 1929.
Atrium 6 West Side (Rooms 13, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12)
Entrance Atrium 47 Atrium 6 West Lower Peristyle Middle Peristyle Middle Peristyle West Upper Peristyle Service and Baths areas
We have combined the pictures of I.4.5 and 1.4.25 here. Combined room plan
I.4.25/1.4.5
Pompeii. September 2020. Looking east in Atrium 6, with South Ala 12, on right.
Foto
Tobias Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, looking into south ala on south side of atrium 6 of 1.4.5.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, looking towards west wall.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, looking towards south wall.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. September 2020. South ala 12, detail from upper south-east corner.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, east wall in south-east corner.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, south-east corner of ala.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, south-east corner.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, detail from south-east corner.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. September 2020. South ala 12, detail from south-east corner.
Foto Tobias Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. September 2020. South ala 12, detail from south-east corner.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, looking towards east wall.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 12, detail from east wall of south ala 12.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. South ala 12, east wall with doorway to room 16.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007.
Doorway to room 16, small room also containing stairs to upper floor that lead from the south wall of the tablinum.
The doorway is in the east wall of atrium 6 of I.4.5.
I.4.25/1.4.5 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 16, entrance doorway, from east side of Atrium 6.
Foto Tobias
Busen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007.
Room 16, small room also containing stairs to upper floor that lead from the south wall of the tablinum.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007. Atrium 6, floor of I.4.5 showing the difference in level to the tablinum, room 14.
Portrait bronze busts of a man and woman, presumed to be of the owners, were found in the atrium.
It is likely the two were a pair, placed on herms on either side of the entrance to the tablinum, in the same place as the reproduction white plinths.
Both are now in the Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number (Man) 4989 and (Woman) 4990
I.4.25 Pompeii. Atrium 6, floor of I.4.5 next to the tablinum, room 14.
Portrait bronze bust of a man presumed to be one of the owners.
It is one of a pair, placed on herms in the atrium on either side of the entrance to the tablinum.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 4989.
I.4.25 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across atrium towards tablinum of 1.4.5.
I.4.5/25 Pompeii. 1966. Looking east across atrium towards tablinum of 1.4.5 and the middle peristyle. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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Entrance Atrium 47 Atrium 6 West Lower Peristyle Middle Peristyle Middle Peristyle West Upper Peristyle Service and Baths areas