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 west across south portico. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2006.

Looking west along south side of peristyle with alcoves 22, 23, 24 and 25.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 23, looking south from south portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 23, centre of west wall with painting of poet.

Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 23, wall painting of poet on west wall of alcove. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021.

Alcove 23, west wall with wall painting of poet. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. March 2014. Alcove 23, wall painting of poet on west wall.  

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Alcove 23, wall painting of poet.

The name of Menander was inscribed by the painter on the skirt of the man’s cloak. (CIL IV 7350a)

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p. 70)

I.10.4 Pompeii. October 2017.

Alcove 23, south-west corner and west wall with wall painting of poet.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Alcove 23, west wall with wall painting of poet.

I.10.4 Pompeii, 7th August 1976. Alcove 23, west wall with wall painting of poet.

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

I.10.4 Pompeii. 1961. Alcove 23, wall painting of Menander. 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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1.10.4 Pompeii. 1955. Fresco of Menander. 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 23, detail from west wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 23, detail of Menander. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Alcove 23, detail from Menander’s open paper scroll held in his hand.

According to Varone this used to read, in small black letters, the words

Menander

Hic primu[m] om[niu]m como

ediam scripsit

qu[i] E[rat] anno

ru[m] XIV 

Lib[ri] IIII

According to Varone, this refers to the fact that Menander wrote his first comedy at the age of 14. Four books.

Della Corte read XIX instead of XIV, see CIL IV 7350b.

According to Cooley this translated to “Menander. He was the first of all to write comedy………four books”.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.70).

See Varone, A, 2003: Gli abitanti della casa, in Menander, La Casa del Menandro di Pompei. Edited by G. Stefani. Milan: Electa. (p. 46-55).

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2017.

Looking east along south portico, with east and south walls of alcove 23, on right.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. October 2017. Alcove 23, looking towards south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

Alcove 23, south wall, –

painted masks, on left, with possibly Bacchus sitting on a chair with robe covering his legs in central panel, and painted table, on right.

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.104, B17).

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2017. Alcove 23, looking towards south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Alcove 23, looking towards south-east corner, on left.

According to PPM –

In the middle zone of the east wall (on the left of above photo) would have been a painted panel with a sitting poet (perhaps Euripides?), with a painted “carpet border” around the edge of the panel.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. II. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.366 and 367, no. 202).

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Alcove 24, south wall at west end. Detail of wall painting of table.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 23. south wall, at east end. Painting of theatrical masks. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Alcove 23. south wall at east end. Painting of theatrical masks.

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022. Alcove 23, east wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

According to PPM –

In the middle zone of the east wall would have been a painted panel with a sitting poet (perhaps Euripides?), with a painted “carpet border” around the edge of the panel.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. II. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.366 and 367, no. 202).

I.10.4 Pompeii. April 2022.

Alcove 23, detail from middle panel on east wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018.  Alcove 23, looking south-east across flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2018.

Alcove 23, looking towards red zoccolo with painted plant from lower east wall, and across flooring. 

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. October 2017. Alcove 23, detail of flooring at east end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2017.  Alcove 23, detail of flooring, looking south from south portico.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north towards entrance doorway from south portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east along south portico, with alcove 22, and doorways to rooms 21 and 19.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021.

Alcove 22, with wall painting of Diana and Actaeon. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. December 2018. Alcove 22, with wall painting of Diana and Actaeon. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 22, wall painting of Diana and Actaeon. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Alcove 22, detail from left (east) side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Alcove 22, detail from left (east) side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2015. Alcove 22, detail from left (east) side. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2012. Alcove 22, detail from upper left. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.10.4 Pompeii. October 2017. Alcove 22, upper centre.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021. Alcove 22, detail from centre. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. March 2014. Alcove 22, detail from upper centre.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.10.4 Pompeii. September 2021.

Alcove 22, detail from right (west) side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Alcove 22, curved recess with painting of Diana and Actaeon.

I.10.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Alcove 22, wall painting of Diana and Actaeon.

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