I.3.7 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1870.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east across Via Stabiana towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards entrance doorway from across via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.7 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

I.3.7 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway.

I.3.7 Pompeii. 1959. Entrance doorway, on left. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.3.7 Pompeii. 1959. Entrance doorway, on left. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate. Looking north on Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of shop, with brick podium in south-west corner.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of shop, with brick podium in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall and podium in south-west corner next to entrance.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of shop.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall of shop.

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of shop. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.7 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall with recess.

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west towards entrance doorway onto Via Stabiana.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.7 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west towards entrance doorway onto Via Stabiana. 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.”).