I.3.2 Pompeii. Thermopolium. Excavated 1872.

I.3.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards entrance doorway on east side of Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards entrance doorway from Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east from Via Stabiana.

I.3.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across counter, from entrance doorway on Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.2 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north along west side of the counter showing three of the four embedded dolia, with Via Stabiana on the left.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards the north wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Boyce –

In the north wall is an arched niche (its condition too ruinous for measurement), its walls coated with white stucco.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.23, no.18).

I.3.2 Pompeii. December 2005.

Looking towards the north wall and counter, with four large terracotta dolia and display shelves.

According to Boyce –

In the north wall is an arched niche (its condition too ruinous for measurement), its walls coated with white stucco.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.23, no.18).

I.3.2 Pompeii. 1935 photograph by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking north along west side of the counter showing four embedded dolia, with Via Stabiana on the left. The niche, as mentioned by Boyce above, can be seen in the north wall.

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli – “I.3.2, Bottega con podio, in cui stanno infisse quattro grandi urne di terracotta, avendo a destra una gradinata. Nel muro nord si trovano i resti della nicchia dei penati”.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no. 3), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards the south wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.2 Pompeii. September 2010. 

Detail of stone steps against the south wall in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Fiorelli, on the right of the entrance doorway was a staircase similar to the one in the preceding shop.

He described that one as a wooden stepladder, presumably reached by similar three stone steps.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.38)

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west over wall from I.3.3, into I.3.2 towards via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.2 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking west towards rear of counter and Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

Photo taken in the late 1800s, showing insula I.3 after excavation. I.3.2 is in the centre, at the lower side of the picture.

Courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.

I.3.4, on left, I.3.3, in centre, I.3.2, on right. December 2018. Looking east towards entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included a description of the insula.

This description is included at the end in all parts of I.3 on the website.

“L’isola 3 della Regio I apparteneva ai quartieri piuttosto poveri, ad’esenzione della casa no. 3 tutto le case sono di dimensioni non grandi.

La casa no. 3 presenta un interesse dal punto di vista della costruzione: il peristilio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello dell’atrio:

questa particolarità si riscontra solamente in questa casa.

Noi abbiamo un esempio inverso nella casa dell’Ancora nera ove l’atrio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello del peristilio.

Si sente bene nell’isola in questione la vicinanza dell’anfiteatro da una parte e delle caserme dei gladiatori dall’altra.

Non c’è dubbio che le case nos 23, 25 siano state abitato da gladiatori.

(Translation: “Insula 3 of Region I belonged to a rather poor neighbourhood, with the exception of house No. 3 all the houses were not large in size.

The house at no. 3 had a special interest from the point of view of construction: the peristyle sits at a level higher than that of the atrium: this particularity was found only in this house. We have a contrary example in the House of the Black Anchor where the atrium was located at a higher level than that of the peristyle.

The nearness of the amphitheatre on one side and the gladiators' barracks on the other suited well the inhabitants of the insula in question.

There was no doubt that the houses numbered 23, 25 had been inhabited by gladiators.”).