VII.16.13/12/14 Pompeii. Casa di Umbricius Scaurus (II)

or House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Father and Son (II)

Plan

We have only been able to locate a relatively small amount of published information on houses VII.16.12/13/14/15/16 and no comprehensive plan in a general textbook, though some partial plans have been published.

The main source is Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U. et al, 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend.

This is a specialised work and much more expensive than a generally available textbook. It does contain plans.

We have generated two outline sketch plans based on that in Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD.

This treats the five houses as two houses.

VII.16.15 and 16 are in the first house [Casa di Umbricius Scaurus (I)] with rooms numbered from 1 to 37.

VII.16.12, 13 and 14 are in the second house [Casa di Umbricius Scaurus (II)] with rooms numbered from 1 to 50.

We have devised two separate plans on these lines.

The house and the remaining rooms are on two levels, a fact not obvious from some plans.

However rooms 38 and 39 may be on a second lower level.

We have indicated the room number under each photograph.

The level is shown in the text under the first photograph for the room.

We have verified our plans by our own observations and photographs

It was not possible to visit all parts to verify the plan.

These houses were damaged by bombing in 1943 and are not open to the public.

Please be aware that existing plans, including ours, may not correspond exactly to what is on the ground, and also may not correspond to the aerial image on Google Earth.