Herculaneum III.11. Casa del Tramezzo di Legno, or House of the Wooden Screen.
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Room 2
III.11 Herculaneum. September 2019. Room 6, looking towards north-east corner of atrium.
The doorway to room 2 is on the left, next to the entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2014.
Looking east across atrium, towards doorway to room 2, on left, and entrance doorway, in centre.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2012.
Room 2, cubiculum flooring, seen from doorway in north-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum. August 2013. Room 2, floor of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 2, flooring. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 2, ceiling. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2020.
Room 2, looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum, June 2017,
Room 2, looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2020.
Room 2, looking towards upper north wall, at east end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2020.
Room 2, detail of painted decoration from upper north wall, at east end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2012.
Room 2, looking east across ceiling from doorway in north-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 2, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, September 2016. Statuette of Attis, (centre). Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
According to a photo on page 58 of Maiuri’s book, this statuette was photographed in front of a table, near the north wall of room 2.
The wording on page 59 suggests that this table was actually found in an upper room of the house.
“E per quanto la casa fosse stata abilmente
frugata con cuniculi e gallerie per ogni lato, era miracolosamente sfuggita ai
ricercatori borbonici, da un ambiente del piano superiore, una preziosa mensa
in marmo epirota (molossium), sostenuta da un trapezoforo effigiato in forma di
Atthis, il piu bello esempio che si abbia di tal genere di mense figurate, fra
quante ce ne ha restituite il sottosuolo di Pompei.”
(Translation: And so far as the house had been ably ransacked with tunnels and galleries on each side, found from an upper-floor room was a precious table in Epirote marble (Marmor Molossium), supported by a single table support in the image of Attis, which had miraculously escaped the Bourbon searchers - the most beautiful example that you have of this kind of genre of figured table, among the many we have recovered from the underground of Pompeii.)
See Maiuri, A. (1932). “Ercolano”. Italy,
Novara. Istituto Geografico De Agostini, (p.58 and 59).
III.11 Herculaneum, June 2017,
Room 2, looking towards south wall and south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2020. Room 2, looking along south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2014. Room 2, south wall. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2020. Room 2, detail of painted decoration from upper south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Room 4
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Doorway to room 4, a cubiculum on south side of atrium in south-east corner.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010.
Room 6, detail of painted decoration in south-east corner of atrium, near doorway to room 4, on right.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, east wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, detail of painted decoration from east wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, painted plant on zoccolo (lower dado) of east wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2020. Room 4, looking through doorway towards south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. August 2013. Room 4, south wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, south wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2006. Room 4, south wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. September 2021.
Room 4, detail of painted deer on panel of frieze at west end of upper south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, west wall in north-west corner, with doorway in north wall to atrium.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, remains of painted decoration in centre of black panels.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, remains of painted decoration in centre of black panels.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, remains of painted decoration in centre of black panels.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, remains of painted decoration in centre of black panels.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 4, painted plant on zoccolo (lower dado).
Room 5
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 5, doorway to cubiculum on south side of atrium.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 5, threshold of doorway.
III.11 Herculaneum, October 2020. Room 5, looking south from doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum, June 2017, Room 5, looking south from doorway. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2020. Room 5, east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. August 2013. Room 5, painted detail from east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
III.11 Herculaneum. March 2014. Room
5, looking towards south wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 5, south wall.
III.11
Herculaneum, April 2018. Room 5, looking towards lower south wall. Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.
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III.11 Herculaneum. May 2006. Room 5, south wall, and south-west corner.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2006. Room 5, west wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2020. Room 5, detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum, April 2018. Room 5, Carbonized bed in
south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.
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III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 5, remains of bed in south-west corner.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2009. Room 5, Carbonized bed in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
III.11 Herculaneum. 1757. Room 5. 1757 engraving by Gaultier of architectural design of upper part of wall.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9741.
See Antichità
di Ercolano: Tomo Primo: Le Pitture 1, 1757, p. 217, tav. 40.
See
Allroggen-Bedel A., 2002. Gli scavi Borbonici nelle Ville Stabiane Pitture
Antiche e Gusto Settecentesco. P. 103-4 and note 37, fig. 5.
Room 7
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 7, the ala on south side of atrium. Looking south-west.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 7, west wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2020.
Room 7, looking towards painted decoration from north end of west wall of ala. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2020.
Room 7, looking towards painted decoration from south end of west wall of ala. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 7, looking towards south-west corner.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 7, south wall.
III.11 Herculaneum. October 2020. Room 7, looking towards east wall of ala. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.11 Herculaneum. May 2010. Room 7, east wall.
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