I.3.6 Pompeii. Workshop. Excavated 1870.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards entrance doorway from across Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east into workshop from Via Stabiana.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Feature on pavement on north side of entrance doorway.

Looking north along Via Stabiana, on left. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from entrance room towards rear vaulted room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards north wall, with remains of niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.6 Pompeii, taken from I.3.5. December 2018.

Looking towards north wall, with remains of painted decoration on upper wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.6 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking towards north-east corner.

Warscher wrote –

I.3.6 “A destra, cioè sopra alla stanza a volta, i resti del muro del primo piano rivestiti di stucco con pochi avanzi di pittura”.

(translation: To the right, above the vaulted room, there are remains of a first-floor room covered in stucco with a few remains of paintings”.)

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.15), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.6 Pompeii. May 2005. Doorway into rear room from entrance room.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-east from entrance room towards I.3.5, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south across entrance room towards doorway into the adjoining workshop at I.3.5. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking towards vaulted room on north side of workshop, from the entrance doorway.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north from entrance room towards north wall and doorway into room on north side.

This vaulted room had no other visible entrance. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking north from entrance room towards north wall and doorway into room on north side.

According to Warscher, she wrote –

“Sul muro di fondo della bottega si apre una finestra che dà sulla strada”.

(translation: “In the rear wall of the shop, there opened a window that gave onto the street”.)

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.14), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north through doorway into vaulted room on north side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of vaulted room on north side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of vaulted room on north side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south from vaulted room, across entrance room towards doorway into adjoining I.3.5. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east from entrance room through doorway into the rear vaulted room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west across entrance room towards west wall and doorway onto Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards east wall of vaulted rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking towards north-west corner of entrance room (on left) and north wall of both front and rear rooms. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from rear vaulted room towards via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to CTP, the area towards the front of the photo would have been another room.

In the centre of the photo, above the remains of the wall would have been a large window giving light to the rear room.

On the north and east sides of the room would have been a wall, these are no longer visible.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.6)

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards south wall, and rear doorway into adjoining I.3.5. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of niche on east wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of feature at rear of property, right hand part abuts east wall. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.6 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of feature at rear of property, left hand part abuts north wall. Looking east. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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.”).