I.3.16 Pompeii. Fullonica of Sestius Venustus.

Linked to I.3.18. Excavated 1869.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south towards entrance doorway.Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking south towards the entrance doorway, with windows above.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.32), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli, “This was a small laundry or maybe a dyers.”

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking south towards the entrance doorway, with windows above.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.32), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli, “This was a small laundry or maybe a dyers’.”

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Vicolo del Menandro.

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway on Vicolo del Menandro.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. Fullonica. Entrance.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking south.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. Fullonica. Looking south.

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south from doorway.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards the west wall and south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards the west wall and south-west corner.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall with remains of podium. This used to have two tubs at the south end. The boiler, the round gap in the centre of the picture, was used to heat a vessel.

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall with remains of podium. This used to have two tubs at the south end.

The boiler, the round gap in the centre of the picture, was used to heat a vessel.

I.3.16 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking west towards area of boiler. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.3.16 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking down on area of boiler. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The boiler.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.34), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The boiler.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.34), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The opening of the boiler for inserting the wood for burning.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.35), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The opening of the boiler for inserting the wood for burning.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.35), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. Recesses at north end of west wall above podium.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. West wall looking south.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards south-east corner and corridor leading to two rear rooms. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards south-east corner and corridor leading to two rear rooms.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.16 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall with arch to small room or cupboard, under staircase of I.3.17.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. Arch to small room or cupboard under staircase of I.3.17.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking north from the interior towards the entrance doorway and the windows above.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.33), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.16 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking north from the interior towards the entrance doorway and the windows above.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.33), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north towards entrance.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north towards entrance from a rear room.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east towards I.3.20, from rear of fullonica.

I.3.16 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east towards I.3.20 from rear of fullonica.

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.”).