93. HGW06 Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate West Side.

Villa di Cicerone or Villa of Cicero or Villa detta di Cicerone.

Linked to HGW15a.

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HGW06 Pompeii. Found in triclinium on 18 January 1749. Wall painting of centaurs with riders on their backs.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9133.

HGW06 Pompeii. 1968. Found in triclinium. Wall painting of centaurs with riders on their backs.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9133 (part). 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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HGW06 Pompeii. 1968. Found in triclinium. Wall painting of centaurs with riders on their backs.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9133 (part). 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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HGW06 Pompeii. 1862 drawing of Centaurs.

See Niccolini F, 1862. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Secondo. Napoli. (tav. 3).

HGW06 Pompeii. Pre-November 1856.

Paintings by Zahn described as two paintings on a black background.

These are pendants to the two paintings in taf. III.64, seen below.

See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 74.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9133 (part).

HGW06 Pompeii. Pre-December 1855.

Paintings by Zahn described as two paintings on black background.

The upper group shows a centaur with a thyrsus and a tambourine, with a young man with a lyre, perhaps representing Chiron and Achilles.

The lower group shows a young man playing the cymbals, and the centaur with a lyre.

These two beautiful paintings are pendants to those seen in taf. III.74 (above).

They were discovered at the same time as the beautiful “dancers”, on a black background.

See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 64.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9133 (part).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th June 1748. Pastiche of many fragments from different pictures.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9911.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 6th July 1748. Fish frieze. Painting of eels, octopus, lobster and mullet.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8621.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1656).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 21st December 1748. Wall painting of country scene with temple edifice, man and animal.

The painting is usually called The Lost Ram. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9418.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1564).

HGW06 Pompeii. 1819-1832. Copy by Gell of wall painting of the Lost Ram.

See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, page de titre.

Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique Num MS180 (2).

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HGW06 Pompeii. Found 25th January 1749. Ambiente 1 of Villa of Cicero.

Wall painting of Europa and the Bull? Wall painting of naked woman and sea cow?

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9900.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1034).

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.13).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found 29th March 1749. Ambiente 1 of Villa of Cicero.

Painting of Bacchus with cup and panther, Silenus with cithara and other figures.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9274.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.13).

Kuivalainen comments –

A somewhat effeminate and naked Bacchus; the rhyton is a less customary attribute. The panther is also unusual both in his appearance and by the way he is lapping his wine up from the ground. The composition is full of small anomalies.

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (F16, p.171-2).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found 25th October 1760 in Villa of Cicero.

Round painted portrait panel of a female figure with a bird in front of her.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9086.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.36).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians. It bears the signature of Dioskourides of Samos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians. It bears the signature of Dioskourides of Samos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

According to the information card –

Street musicians.

Mosaic emblema in opus vermiculatum made from polychrome tesserae, signed by Dioskourides of Samos.

The scene, inspired by the New Comedy, depicts three itinerant musicians with their faces covered by masks:

a musician playing cymbals in the centre, another with a tambourine to the right and a woman with a double flute to the left.

A boy on the left follows the procession. (Late 2^nd – early Ist century BC.)

(I musici ambulanti.

Emblema pavimentale in opus vermiculatum di tessere policrome, firmato da Dioskourides di Samo.

La scena, ispirata alla Commedia Nuova, raffigura tre suonatori ambulanti col volto coperto da maschere:

un suonatore di cembali, al centro; un altro con tamburello, a destra; una donna col doppio flauto, a sinistra.

Un fanciullo, a sinistra, segue il corteo. Fine del II – inizi del I secolo a.C.)

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians. Detail of signature of Dioskourides of Samos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Detail from mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians, musician with tambourine.  

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Detail from mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians –

a musician playing cymbals on the right, in the centre a woman with a double flute, and on the left, a boy follows the procession.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Detail from mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians showing a musician playing cymbals.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Detail from mosaic of a Group of Street Musicians showing a boy following and watching the musicians.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero. Inventory number 9985.

Photo taken by Stanley A. Jashemski in 1957.

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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HGW06 Pompeii. Pre-1843. Drawing by Abbate of mosaic found 8th April 1763.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9985.

See Raccolta de più interessante Dipinture e di più belle Musaici rinvenuti negli Scavi di Ercolano, di Pompei, e di Stabia. 1843. Napoli.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 28th April 1763. Ambiente 13 of Villa of Cicero.

Wall painting of country scene with tower and clothed man on an island.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9416.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th March 1764. Ambiente 33 of Villa of Cicero.

Mosaic of the Sorceress. It bears the signature of Dioskourides of Samos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9987.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th March 1764. Ambiente 33 of Villa of Cicero.

Mosaic of the Sorceress, or Consultation with a witch. It bears the signature of Dioskourides of Samos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9987.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. September 2024. Information card in Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th March 1764. Ambiente 33 of Villa of Cicero.

Mosaic of the Sorceress, or Consultation with a witch, with the signature of Dioskourides of Samos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9987.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th March 1764. Ambiente 33 of Villa of Cicero.

Detail from the mosaic of the Sorceress, or Consultation with a witch. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9987.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella. September 2024.

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 8th March 1764. Ambiente 33 of Villa of Cicero.

Inventory number 9987. Photo taken by Stanley A. Jashemski in 1957.

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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HGW06 Pompeii. Found 22nd March 1764. ?Ambiente 34 of Villa of Cicero.

Wall painting of Phrixus and Helle fleeing on the swimming ram.

Helle has fallen into the water and holds her hands out.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9478.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1258).

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, this was found on 22^nd March 1764 in room 34 of the Villa of Cicero.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi, (p.46).

According to Allroggen-Bedel, this painting was found in room 11 of VI.17.9/10/11 on the La Vega’s plan.

See Allroggen-Bedel - Die malereien aus dem Haus Insula Occidentalis 10, (p.177-8). in Cronache Pompeiane II, 1976 (p.144-183).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found on 2nd June 1770. Ambiente 40 of Villa of Cicero.

Wall painting made up from two pictures of views of gardens with porticos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9406.

HGW06 Pompeii. 1975. Ambiente 40 of Villa of Cicero. Wall painting made up from two pictures of views of gardens with porticos.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9406. 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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HGW06 Pompeii. Two panthers approaching cymbals from the right.

The panthers are now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number s.n. Ant. Inv. 72.

See Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo Primo: Le Pitture 1, 1757, p. 95, Tav. XVII.

HGW06 Pompeii. Villa of Cicero. Two panthers approaching cymbals from the left.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number s.n. Ant. Inv. 72.

See Ciardello R., La ricostruzione delle decorazioni dalla Villa di Cicerone a Pompei in AMOENITAS II, 2012, Roma, p. 149, fig. 21.

HGW06 Pompeii. Villa of Cicero, or Insula Occidentalis ??. Pastiche of picture fragments.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9926.

See Ciardello R., La ricostruzione delle decorazioni dalla Villa di Cicerone a Pompei in AMOENITAS II, 2012, Roma, p. 143, fig. 12.

HGW06 Pompeii. Villa of Cicero. Maenad with platter and bucket.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9292.

HGW06 Pompeii. Villa of Cicero. Pastiche of a female figure on a chariot and a medallion with a cupid in the centre.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8831.

HGW06 Pompeii. Villa of Cicero. C.1819 sketch by W. Gell, entitled “All in the Villa of Cicero”.

See Gell W & Gandy, J.P: Pompeii published 1819 [Dessins publiés dans l'ouvrage de Sir William Gell et John P. Gandy, Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompei, 1817-1819].

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HGW06 Pompeii. Sketches of wall decorations by W. Gell, some said to be from the Villa of Cicero.

See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 97.

Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique Num MS180 (2).

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HGW06 Pompeii. Found 4th January 1749. Masks possibly found in Villa of Cicero. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.13).

HGW06 Pompeii. Found 4th January 1749. Masks possibly found in Villa of Cicero. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.13).

HGW06 Pompeii. May 2006. Label describing masks possibly found in Villa of Cicero. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

See also Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.13).

HGW06 Pompeii. June 2017. Marble entrance sign for the Baths of Marcus Crassus Frugi.

Found in 1749 outside the Herculaneum Gate, at the so-called Villa of Cicero. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

(also entered in Villa 90, at Torre Annunziata).

HGW06 Pompeii. June 2017.

Information card from Naples Archaeological Museum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

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