24. Pompeii. Villa dei Misteri or Villa of Mysteries.
Crypt, anteroom (26) to room with apse which may have been a sacellum (25)
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Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Doorways to rooms 21, 26, corridor 27, and room 28 on peristyle D. Looking west.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking across the peristyle. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Crypt in
peristyle. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa
of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Rain-water spouts, in
situ on roof behind crypt. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. Rain-water spouts, in situ on roof behind crypt.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
Our thanks to Florian Schmitt for his help in identifying the location of this photo.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Detail of rain-water spouts. Photo
courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2012. Entrance to crypt. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Crypt.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Crypt.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Steps to crypt.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Steps to crypt.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Crypt.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Niche in crypt.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Peristyle D, looking west towards doorway to rooms 21 and 26, and window into room 26.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to room 26.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Room 26, north side.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Room 26, at front, looking into room 25, apsidal hall at rear.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Room 25, looking north to
window. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Room 25, detail from west
side of window. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Room 25, from room 26.
Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006. Room 25, from room 26.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Room 25, apsidal hall, from room 26.
Boyce said that Maiuri suggested this room of curious shape with an apse in the side opposite the entrance doorway, and four rectangular niches in the walls, was undergoing renovation at the time of the eruption.
Maiuri thought it may have been intended as a domestic Sacellum, and possibly would have housed the statue of Livia found nearby in the peristyle.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p. 98)
See Maiuri, 1967 Ed. Villa dei Misteri, (76 and
fig.29)
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Room 26, east side.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023. Room
26, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023.
Room 26, looking
towards south wall with window onto portico of Peristyle D. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023.
Room 25, looking south through window onto
Peristyle D, with Peristyle A, on right. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. October 2023.
Looking south from room 25, across room 26, towards doorway onto portico
of Peristyle D. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south along peristyle A at doorways to rooms 19, 20 and 21.
Villa dei
Misteri, Pompeii. October 1981. Looking towards north-west corner of Peristyle A, from Peristyle D.
Doorways to
rooms 19, (on left) 20, 21, and 26 (on right).
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
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