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

Peristyle area and garden

 

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I.10.4 Pompeii, December 2018. Looking south along west portico. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii, December 2018.

Looking south along west portico. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2019. Flooring in south-west corner of peristyle, looking south. Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2019. Flooring in south-west corner of peristyle, looking south.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south from west portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south from west portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Area 25, looking towards south-west corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018.

Area 25, looking towards south-west corner of peristyle.  Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Area 25, south-west corner of peristyle, looking towards Sacrarium with built in altar and apsed niche. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021.

Area 25, south-west corner of peristyle, looking towards Sacrarium with built in altar and apsed niche.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Area 25, south-west corner of peristyle. Sacrarium with built in altar and apsed niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Area 25, south-west corner of peristyle.

Sacrarium with built in altar and apsed niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Area 25, detail of flooring. Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Area 25, detail of flooring. 

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, ceiling. Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, ceiling.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 25, ceiling. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 25, ceiling. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 25, looking towards east wall and south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021.

Alcove 25, looking towards east wall and south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, looking towards east wall and south-east corner. Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, looking towards east wall and south-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Alcove 25, looking towards east wall and south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Alcove 25, looking towards east wall and south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 25, east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 25, east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. 1957. Alcove 25, east wall. 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. J57f0483

I.10.4 Pompeii. 1957. Alcove 25, east wall. 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. September 2018. Alcove 25, looking towards upper south wall and ceiling. Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, looking towards upper south wall and ceiling.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 25, looking towards south wall Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 25, looking towards south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, looking towards south wall. Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018. Alcove 25, looking towards south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 25, south wall with painted columns and pilasters opening onto a painted garden with trees and birds. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012.

Alcove 25, south wall with painted columns and pilasters opening onto a painted garden with trees and birds. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Alcove 25, south wall with painted columns and pilasters opening onto a painted garden with trees and birds.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010.

Alcove 25, south wall with painted columns and pilasters opening onto a painted garden with trees and birds.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 25, detail from panel on west side of south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 25, detail from panel on west side of south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. 1957. Alcove 25, detail from centre of south wall. 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. J57f0484

I.10.4 Pompeii. 1957. Alcove 25, detail from centre of south wall. 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 2022. Alcove 25, looking towards altar to household gods against west wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber. According to Boyce – In the finely decorated exedra opening off the south-west corner of the peristyle is an unusual shrine. A large rectangular, masonry podium (1.33 by 0.66, h.089) is built into the south-west corner. In the west wall above it is a shallow arched niche (h.0.62, w.0.86, h. above the podium 0.24), set into the centre of a previously existing panel of the wall decoration. A small, rectangular, altar-like base of tufa (0.21 by 0.17, h.0.25) was built directly before the niche on the top of the podium. The large podium is painted to represent a veneering with vertical slabs of yellow marble veined with red, placed above a dark dado. The back wall of the niche is painted in imitation of the same marble. The small altar-like structure is coated with red stucco. Within the niche there stood in antiquity five figures of perishable material which left their impressions in the volcanic ash; of these impressions the excavators were able to take plaster casts. …………. See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.28.no. 49B). See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni, (p.256, no.V12)

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, looking towards altar to household gods against west wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

According to Boyce –

In the finely decorated exedra opening off the south-west corner of the peristyle is an unusual shrine.

A large rectangular, masonry podium (1.33 by 0.66, h.089) is built into the south-west corner.

In the west wall above it is a shallow arched niche (h.0.62, w.0.86, h. above the podium 0.24), set into the centre of a previously existing panel of the wall decoration. A small, rectangular, altar-like base of tufa (0.21 by 0.17, h.0.25) was built directly before the niche on the top of the podium.

The large podium is painted to represent a veneering with vertical slabs of yellow marble veined with red, placed above a dark dado.

The back wall of the niche is painted in imitation of the same marble.

The small altar-like structure is coated with red stucco.

Within the niche there stood in antiquity five figures of perishable material which left their impressions in the volcanic ash; of these impressions the excavators were able to take plaster casts. ………….

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.28.no. 49B).

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni, (p.256, no.V12)

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Alcove 25, altar to household gods against west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018.

Alcove 25, altar to household gods against west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. Alcove 25 in south-west corner of peristyle. Lararium or domestic shrine with built in altar and apsed niche. Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

I.10.4 Pompeii. Alcove 25 in south-west corner of peristyle.

Lararium or domestic shrine with built in altar and apsed niche.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. 4th October 1937. Alcove 25 in south-west corner of peristyle. Lararium or domestic shrine with built in altar and apsed niche. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.10.4 Pompeii. 4th October 1937. Alcove 25 in south-west corner of peristyle.

Lararium or domestic shrine with built in altar and apsed niche. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine in south-west corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. 

Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine in south-west corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine. The busts are plaster cast taken from the cavities left by the original wooden busts. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. 

Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine. The busts are plaster cast taken from the cavities left by the original wooden busts.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine. The busts are plaster cast taken from the cavities left by the original wooden busts.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010.

Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine. The busts are plaster cast taken from the cavities left by the original wooden busts.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine, plaster casts of the original wooden ancestor images. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber. According to Cicirelli, these are imagines maiorum, ancestor images, and were accompanied a statuette of a sitting youth, identified as a lar. See Stefani, G. (Ed), 2003. Menander: La casa del Menandro di Pompei. Milano: Mondadori Electa. (p. 187).

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, lararium or domestic shrine, plaster casts of the original wooden ancestor images. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

According to Cicirelli, these are imagines maiorum, ancestor images, and were accompanied a statuette of a sitting youth, identified as a lar.

See Stefani, G. (Ed), 2003. Menander: La casa del Menandro di Pompei. Milano: Mondadori Electa. (p. 187).

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the left, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the left, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the left, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the left, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the left of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the left of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the left of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the left of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the right of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the right of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the right of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, seen on the right of centre, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the right, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the right, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 1).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the right, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2). Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 25, detail of plaster cast, on the right, on the lararium or domestic shrine. (Image 2).

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

 

 

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