I.3.11 Pompeii. Thermopolium. Excavated 1868.

I.3.11 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking north-east towards entrance from Via Stabiana.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.28), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli,

“There was a masonry podium on the inside left of the entrance of this shop, containing eight terracotta urns, annexed at the side was a room used by the customers.”

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards entrance doorway on east side of Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across Via Stabiana towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010. Number ID plate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking south-east from entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.3.11 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east across counter in shop-room from entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.3.11 Pompeii. Entrance. Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north along entrance doorway on Via Stabiana.

I.3.11 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking north from entrance towards the podium.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.27), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north along entrance threshold or sill for sliding shutters.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east into bar-room from street entrance. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across bar-room towards Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. Old undated photograph. Looking west across top of counter towards Via Stabiana.

On the opposite side of the road is the entrance to VIII.7.25, and the fountain outside the doorway.

I.3.11 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking west from rear of counter towards Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.3.11 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking west towards the entrance doorway and Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north across counter towards north wall and north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking north towards counter.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.3.11 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking north-east across counter.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Counter with five of the eight dolia.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Counter with the remaining three of the eight dolia.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Small marble pillar at end of counter.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north towards north wall and north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking towards the north-east corner.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall.

I.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. East wall.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking towards south wall, note feature in centre of image which resembles blocked up doorway, beyond is the Sarno Canal route.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

The blocked-up doorway would have led into the side room, described by Fiorelli as “being for the use of the customers”.

I.3.11 Pompeii. July 2011.

Looking towards south wall. Beyond is the newly rebuilt Sarno Canal route and access grid. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west along the Sarno Canal course at south of property. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall and room on south side.

I.3.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east. Small room to south now disrupted by grille of the Sarno canal.

I.3.11 Pompeii. July 2008.

Downpipe in north-east corner of small room on south side of bar-room. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

I.3.11 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east along the Sarno Canal course at south of property. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east from Via Stabiana.

The area of I.3.9, I.3.10 and I.3.11 were disrupted years ago in the tunnelling of Fontana’s Sarno canal.

Here a grille covers access to the canal.

According to CTP, this area was first destroyed by the workings of Domenico Fontana, between 1592-1600.

Then later, the Sarno canal was deviated to a lower level in 1906-7 to make clear the path of the Via Stabiana.

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

I.3.11 Pompeii. May 2010.

Cross section of the Sarno canal, drawn in 2006, showing I.3.12, 11 and 10 on the east side of Via Stabiana.

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.”).