I.10.4 Pompeii. Casa del Menandro or House of the Menander or House of the Silver Treasure.

East side of peristyle

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I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking north along east portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. East portico, looking north.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019.

Room 19, doorway to room on east side of portico. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019.

Room 19, north wall with doorway to room 18. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 19, north wall with doorway to room 18.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 19, north wall with doorway to room 18. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, north wall by the side of doorway to room 18.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, north wall.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 19, central painting on north wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, north wall. Wall painting of cherub scared by a tragic mask held by a nymph.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p. 126)

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019.

Room 19, looking east along north wall to north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Room 19, east wall.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019.

Room 19, looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. 1966.

Room 19, plant on zoccolo (dado) of room on south end of east side. 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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I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019. Room 19, looking towards south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2018. Room 19, looking towards south-east corner and south wall. Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.

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1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Room 19, south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, south wall.

I.10.4 Pompeii, 7th August 1976. Room 19, wall painting in centre of south wall.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Room 19, central painting from south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, south wall. Wall painting of a Satyr playing a flute to a Maenad.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p. 127)

See Ling, Roger: La Casa del Menandro, in Menander, La Casa del Menandro di Pompei. Edited by G. Stefani. Milan: Electa, 2003 (p.39).

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 19, detail of central painting from south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Room 19, detail of Satyr and Maenad.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, south wall.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Room 19, detail from south wall.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, south wall.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, south wall. Painted centaur with patera.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p.127)

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019. Room 19, looking south across glass display case, from doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. 2015/2016. Room 19, glass display case. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2019.

Room 19, looking across glass case towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Room 19, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

1.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Room 19, glass case with remains of bones of fugitives.

Originally three skeletons were found in room 19 on 29th April 1931 near to the doorway to the peristyle at ground level.

Maiuri identified them as two adults and one juvenile. These skeletons were removed. 

Found with them were a mattock and a pick-axe, perhaps used to make the holes in the south and west walls to help them escape.

These tools can be seen in the glass case but with reconstructed wooden handles.

The other skeletons, approximately ten of them, were found a few days later above the corridor P1.

They were found 2.5 metres above the ground.

They seemed to have fallen from an upper floor, one on top of another, so their bones were intermingled. 

All of these bones from corridor P1 were collected and moved to Room 19 for display in the glass case.

Some of the bones, not needed for the display, can still be seen in a pit in the lower right corner of the photo.

See Lazer, E. 2009. Resurrecting Pompeii, London & New York: Routledge, (p. 10-14)

See Lazer, E: Resti umani scheletrici nella Casa del Menandro, in Menander, La Casa del Menandro di Pompei. Edited by G. Stefani. Milan: Electa, 2003 (p. 64-69).

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006.

Room 19, west wall. One of the holes, presumably made by the mattock and pickaxe found in this room, can be seen.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, skeletons in glass case.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2017. Room 19, detail of skeletons in glass case. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 19, skeletons, pickaxe, and mattock in glass case, with restored wooden handles.

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