I.3.12 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1868.

I.3.12 Pompeii, in centre. December 2018.

Looking east towards entrance doorway on corner of Via Stabiana and its junction with Vicolo del Menandro. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east towards entrance doorway from Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards entrance doorway from Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Via Stabiana, looking north.

I.3.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance threshold or sill for sliding shutters, looking north.

I.3.12 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010.

The east wall of the shop-room with two doorways can be seen towards the lower side of the image. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across the shop to two small rooms at the rear.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west across the shop towards the entrance doorway onto the Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of shop-room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall and doorway to rear room in south-east corner.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall in rear room on south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii.  December 2007. North wall and rear room in north-east corner.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of shop-room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Slit window in north wall.

I.3.12 Pompeii. September 2010.

North wall in rear room in north-east corner with slit window onto Vicolo del Menandro. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to CTP, when the survey was written “the north wall of the back room has now vanished”.

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

I.3.12 Pompeii, on right. December 2018. Looking towards side wall, on right, in Vicolo del Menandro. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.13 Pompeii. September 2010.

Corner of via Stabiana and Vicolo del Menandro, on south side. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

Vicolo del Menandro, Pompeii, looking east towards I.3.13 from I.3.12. May 2005.

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.”).