I.7.1 Pompeii. Casa di Paquius Proculus or House of Cuspius Pansa.
Excavated 1911 and 1923 to 1926. Restored 2015/16.
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I.7.1 Pompeii. 1959. Lava puteal in north-east corner of peristyle. Looking south. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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I.7.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Lava puteal in north-east corner of peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1889.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south along east side of peristyle.
According to Spinazzola –
“Next to it (next to the triclinium), immediately outside, is a built-in cupboard, “an apotheca”, and immediately afterwards in the walkway (portico) near the east, the kitchen, between a small service room and one – for the custodial staff perhaps – on the descent to the basement and to the exit”.
(Accanto,
immediatamente all’esterno, un armadio a muro, una “apotheca”, e, subito dopo
nell’ambulacro vicino di oriente, la cucina, tra una stanzetta di servizio ed
una – del personale di custodia forse – sulla discesa ai sotterranei ed
all’uscita.)
I.7.1 Pompeii. 1975.
Domus of P. Paquius Proculus, 1st room left of peristyle, NE corner. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_5_11.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Ramp from peristyle to lower level, kitchen and cellars.
According to NdS –
“This room would have originally been reserved only for the development of the communicating staircase between the cellars and the peristyle. But since the kitchen had been adapted to the level of the peristyle in this room, the previous staircase was replaced by a ramp with an inclined floor which, not without discomfort for those who used it, came to pass under the pilasters of the hearth, and forced the family members to bend down so as not to collide with the ceiling. Finally, within the stairwell itself, in the centre of the room, there was the doorway into a narrow and uncomfortable latrine, almost suffocated by the low kitchen ceiling.”
(L’ambiente
doveva essere originariamente riservato solo allo sviluppo della scala di comunicazione
fra cellaio e peristilio. Ma essendosi adattata in questo ambiente al piano del
peristilio la cucina, si sostituì alla scala precedente una rampa a piano
inclinato che, non senza disagio di chi la praticava, veniva a passare al
disotto dei pilastrini del focolare, e costringeva i familiari ad incurvare la
persona per non cozzare contro il solaio. Infine entro il vano stesso della
scala, al centro dell’ambiente, si recavo il
vano di un’angusta e disagiata latrina, pressoché soffocata
dal basso solaio della cucina.)
See Notizie
degli Scavi, 1929, (p.391).
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower level vaulting.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower level, kitchen, with latrine in centre.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east into lower level from peristyle terrace.
The empty spaces between beams, on the top of the wall of the lower level, were to give light and air.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006.
Lower level room, with corridor, on right, and remains of masonry stove, on left.
According to NdS –
“The corridor and the room must have belonged to a bath in a more ancient period: the corridor still retains its decoration with a beautiful red background, with a small doorway with a round arch and a circular opening walled-up in the rear renovations, the room has clear traces of the rib of a stuccoed vault, elements, one or the other, completely foreign to the rustic character of all the other basement areas of this house; in the corner of the room you can see the remains of a brick stove that could also be used to heat the room and a hole on the floor for water to escape.
Once the bath room was abolished, the simple wooden ceiling was left on the room, and to ventilate and illuminate it, the ingenious expedient of leaving the spaces empty between beams, on the top of the wall, was resorted to. This was in order to obtain as many glimmers of light and air from the void between two beams”.
(Il corridoio
e la stanza debbono avere appartenuto in un periodo più antico ad un bagno: il
corridoio conserva infatti ancora la sua decorazione a bel fondo rosso, con una
porticina ad archetto tondo ed uno spiraglio circolare murati nei rifacimenti
posteriori, la stanza ha chiare tracce della centina di una volta stuccata,
elementi l’uno o l’altro del tutto estranei al carattere rustico di tutti gli
altri sotterranei di questa abitazione; nell’angolo della stanza si osservano i
resti di un fornello in mattone che poteva anche servire al riscaldamento
dell’ambiente ed un foro al piano del pavimento per la fuoruscita dell’acqua.
Abolito il
bagno si lasciò il semplice solaio in
legno sulla stanza, e per arieggiarla ed illuminarla si ricorse all’ingegnoso
espediente di lasciare sul collo del muro gli spazi vuoti fra trave e trave in
modo da ricavare dal vacuo tra due travi altrettanti spiragli di luce e di
aria.)
See Notizie
degli Scavi, 1929, (p.390-391).
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower level, remains of masonry stove.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower level, corridor.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower level, corridor. Remains of painted plaster.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-east into I.7.12 Casa dell’ Efebo, from peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii. 1959. Looking north-east into I.7.12 Casa dell’ Efebo, from peristyle. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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I.7.1 Pompeii. 1959. Looking north-east into I.7.12 Casa dell’ Efebo, from peristyle. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-west across rooms on south side of peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii. Mosaic from room in south-west corner of peristyle of a drunken Silenus on a donkey that is refusing to move.
He is being helped by two Satyrs. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number s.n.
I.7.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north from above rooms below rear of south side of peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 546.
I.7.1 Pompeii. 1959.
Looking north across garden, from between the columns that would have surrounded a triclinium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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According to Jashemski –
In the middle of the garden, four columns formed a shady pergola over a wooden triclinium, the imprint of individual boards and of the crosspieces that held them together were clearly preserved. About fifty large nails were retrieved.
In front of the triclinium there was a marble-faced basin of rectangular form with an apse-shaped extension on the north.
This pool, which had a fountain jet, was connected with a smaller marble basin between the couches of the triclinium.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II:
Appendices. New
York: Caratzas. (p.37).
According to
Soprano –
Ubicazione: peristilio.
Bibliog. “Not.
Scavi”, 1929, p.386.
Al centro del
peristilio s’innalzavano quattro sottili colonne disposte in quadrato che
certamente erano destinate a reggere un pergolato.
Al centro
dell’area coperta del pergolato, presso una vaschetta marmorea, furon
rinvenute, al momento dello scavo, le impronte di un triclinio in legno,
Era formato da
tavole collegate da quattro listelli inchiodati con robusti chiodi di cui
furono trovati una cinquantina.
A settentrione
del triclinio c’era una piscina di forma rettangolare, con uno dei lati
absidati.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Remains of large columns in garden.
I.7.1 Pompeii. October 2019.
Looking south to marble-faced basin/pool with fountain jet, from
north portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Marble fountain in pool, looking east.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Marble fountain in pool in peristyle garden, looking west.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west along south side of peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-west along south side of peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north across peristyle, and rooms at rear.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 546.
I.7.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north across peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 546a
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north along west side of peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii, 1968. West wall of west portico, with painted plants on black zoccolo. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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I.7.1 Pompeii, 1968. Detail of painted plants on west wall of portico. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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I.7.1 Pompeii, 1968. Detail of painted plants on west wall of portico. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
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I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of wall painting showing sacred landscape, from north end of west side of peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-east across garden and peristyle.
I.7.1 Pompeii. Bronze candelabrum (on right) with Ammon lamp soldered to top.
SAP 3244 (Candelabrum) and 3244a (Lamp).
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
I.7.1 Pompeii. Bronze lamp with head of the oracle god Jupiter Ammon.
SAP 3244a. Soldered to top of candelabrum SAP 3244.
I.7.1 Pompeii, on
left. Entrance to Vicolo di Paquius Proculus on Via dell’Abbondanza.
I.7.1 Pompeii, on left. September 2004. Vicolo di Paquius Proculus looking south. I.6, on right
I.6, Pompeii, on left. December 2004. Vicolo di Paquius Proculus looking north. I.7.1 and I.7.20, on right.
I.7.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Exterior west side wall.
I.6, Pompeii, on left. Vicolo di Paquius Proculus looking north. December 2005. I.7.1, west side wall, on right.
I.6, Pompeii, on left. May 2006. Roadway looking north to Shrine of Twelve Gods. I.7.1, on right.
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