I.3.20 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1868.
I.3.20 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across Vicolo del Menandro towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.3.20/21 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.
Looking south towards façade and window of I.2.20 (on right), and doorway at I.2.21 (on left).
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.36), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway.
According to
Warscher, “Il protiro conduce in un atrio privo dell’impluvio.
A destra una
ampia cella con tre poggiuoli di fabbrica, per sostegno di un pancone di
tavola, e di fronte il tablino.
Nel viridario
sono infissi due dolia.”
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: Rome, DAIR.
(Translation: The entrance corridor into an atrium without an impluvium.
On the right a large room with three masonry blocks, for the support of a board for the table, and the tablinum opposite.
In the garden area were two dolia fixtures. "
I.3.20 Pompeii. September 2010. Number ID Plate on east side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.3.20 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south to detail of marble entrance threshold block, showing doorpost slots.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.3.20 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south along fauces towards atrium, from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.3.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south along entrance corridor.
I.3.20 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south along fauces, showing detail of east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.3.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south along entrance corridor towards atrium and rear of peristyle.
According to Boyce, on the right side of the peristyle stood a small altar, coated with stucco.
On the yellow background, there were painted festoons and masks.
The excavation report called it a lararium. This is no longer in situ.
He gives the reference Bull. Inst., 1869, 242.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 24, no.25).
I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east along north side of peristyle.
According to Jashemski –
The garden at the rear of the house had a passageway on the north and west.
There was a gutter around the east, north and west edges of the garden.
Four large dolia were buried in the garden. A large triclinium along the east side of the garden had a window overlooking into the garden.
The remains of one couch of a masonry triclinium in the west passageway suggested to Fiorelli that formerly there might have been a room there, destroyed by the earthquake. There was a terracotta puteal in this passageway, and a small altar on the right-side of the peristyle.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II:
Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.27).
According to
Soprano –
Ubicazione:
peristilio.
Bibliog.
Fiorelli, op.c., p.56.
Il Fiorelli
afferma che nell’ambulacro del peristilio c’erano tracce di ‘un letto
tricliniare di fabbrica’.
Le tracce viste
dal Fiorelli non sono oggi visibili.
I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south-east towards two dolia buried in the peristyle. Originally there were four dolia.
See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.6)
I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2003. Dolia near south wall in south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
I.3.20 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Two of the dolia embedded in the garden area.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.37), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east from rooms on west side, across area of tablinum towards rooms on east side.
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.”).