I.2.17 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1869.

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I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west along unnamed vicolo from near entrance.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Entrance doorway, looking south. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance fauces, looking south into atrium.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Entrance corridor, looking north onto unnamed vicolo.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north-east.

Doorway, directly east of entrance, at north end of room 2. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east into doorway of room 2, small room on east side of entrance corridor.

I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, looking south to room 1, atrium.

I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, entrance fauces, looking south into atrium.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010.

Feature, niche, on east wall of entrance passage constructed out of white and cipollino marble.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium niche of coloured marble, in east wall of fauces.

According to Boyce, the walls, projecting floor and aedicula façade of this rectangular niche are all of greyish marble.

In the floor were three holes for the bases of statuettes.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p.22 no.9, pl.7,2)

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2005. Niche.

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2005. Niche.

1.2.17 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking north along entrance corridor towards doorway.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.28), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

According to Warscher, quoting Bull. Inst, 1874, p.264 –

I.2.17 “La fauces che hanno la soglia di lava, s’abbassano un poco verso l’interno. 

Nel muro sinistra vi è una piccola nicchia con suole e cornice di marmo a guisa d’un tempietto.

Nel suole di essa sono tre buchi, uno più profondo degli altri destinati probabilmente per mettervi piccoli idoli, come la lastra sporgente del suolo serviva per oblazioni.

Presso gli angoli che formano le fauces coll’atrio manca lo stucco del muro, e nel suolo su ciascun lato si vede una pietra di lava: evidentemente vi stavano li postes di legno”.

(translation: I.2.17 “The fauces that had a threshold of lava, led slightly downwards towards the atrium.

In the left wall there was a small niche with floor and cornice of marble, in the guise of a shrine.

In the floor were three holes, one deeper than the others, which was used probably for a small idol, and the protruding slab of the floor was used for donations.

Near the corner that joined the fauces with the atrium, the wall stucco was missing and in the floor on that side one could see a slab of lava: evidently there were wooden posts”.)

I.2.17 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across atrium, from end of fauces. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.17 Pompeii. March 2009. North-east corner of atrium. Two doorways, room 2 – small room, and

room 3- corridor to cupboard & kitchen room with stairs to upper floor.

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