I.3.25 Pompeii. Casa dei Guerrieri or the House of the Bronzehandlers.

Linked to I.3.26. Excavated 1869.

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I.3.25 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south along Vicolo del Citarista, taken from outside I.3.25.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking north along west side of Vicolo del Citarista with the facade of I.3.25 and side wall of I.3.24.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.56), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

According to Warscher, the walls of houses I.3.25 and 24 merited a special study since they represented examples of almost every kind of masonry known in Pompeii from the earliest to the latest.

She also thought the various types of window also deserved attention.

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Façade of I.3.25 showing windows on north side of entrance doorway.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.58), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Façade of I.3.25 showing window.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.59), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Façade of I.3.25 showing window.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.57), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.25 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate on south wall of entrance. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.25 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south towards entrance doorway.

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking north towards entrance doorway.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.60a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking towards the entrance doorway, and the remains of the painted decoration on the north wall of the entrance corridor.

According to Warscher, found near to the entrance was the electoral programma –

L. CEIVM. SECVNDVM     CAPE

                                     LLA.ROG

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.60), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. Graffito found near entrance as recorded in C.I.L IV 2993g.

See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Vol. IV, 1871. Berlin: Reimer, p. 201.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this read

L(ucium) Ceium Secundum aed(ilem) // Cape/lla rog(at)    [CIL IV, 2993g]

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west into house from entrance doorway.

I.3.25 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.25 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards the north wall of entrance corridor, from doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Rooms to north of entrance doorway.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking across rooms to north of entrance doorway.

In the centre of the photo, the north wall of the atrium can be seen through the doorway of the room.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Two doorways to rooms to north of entrance.

The blocked niche can be seen in the east wall of the atrium, on the right of the photo.

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking towards east side of the atrium and a blocked niche.

On the right is the fauces or entrance corridor.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.62), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Room in north-east corner of atrium.

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

The north wall of the atrium: the blocks of Sarno stone were placed vertically.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.61), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Rooms to north-west of atrium and tablinum.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west across atrium area towards open tablinum and peristyle.

The doorway to the south, on the left, leads into shop at I.3.26.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south through doorway into shop at 1.3.26, from atrium.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway with steps into bedroom to south of open tablinum.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west across 3-sided pseudoperistyle to garden area.

According to Schefold, on the south-west corner pillar there was a painting of a flying Isis Fortuna with a horn of plenty and a globe.

See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wände Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. (p. 13).

According to Trendelenburg, this small rectangular peristyle was open to the west side onto a small garden area.

The other three sides were surrounded by a low podium of material, on which rested four brick columns, originally faced with coloured stucco.

The peristyle was being restored at the time of the catastrophe in 79AD.

The podium on the left side ended with a large pilaster.

This surviving pilaster, on a background of red stucco, showed a different type of female flying figure (height I.15m).

She was naked, except for a transparent yellow mantle, covering her from her breast to her knees.

In her right hand she held a wreath or crown of laurel, in her left was a cornucopia.

At her feet was a globe.

See Trendelenburg in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1871 (p.173)

According to Sogliano, Nike (Victory) with a yellow transparent veil painted on a red background, was found on the corner pilaster in the south-west corner of the peristyle.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p.72, no.431)

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher of a reproduction of a watercolour belonging to DAIR.

Nike (Victory) with yellow transparent wings, on a red background, found on the south-west pilaster of the peristyle.

According to Warscher, on a clear day you could still see some traces of this fresco, which if it had been removed, it would be one of the most interesting paintings of the National Museum.

Warscher stated that Fiorelli made a mistake in his description of the location of the finding of this painting.

She said the mistake by Fiorelli had been observed by Sogliano and Mau, and that the German Institute had an example of “Descrizione” by Fiorelli, with points and corrections by Mau.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.64), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p.72, no.430)

I.3.25 Pompeii. 1880 watercolour of Nike (Victory) with yellow transparent wings, on a red background, found on the south-west pilaster of the peristyle.

Nike is standing on a globe, holding a crown (and a cornucopia?).

DAIR 83, 5. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

I.3.25 Pompeii. Drawing by Nicola La Volpe, 1870, of painting of Nike (Victory) from the east façade of the south-west pilaster of peristyle.

(see Sogliano 430, above.)

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 8.

Photo © ICCD. http://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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I.3.25 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The niche in the west wall of the garden area.

According to Warscher, it was very small (0.14 high) to have been a niche for the Penates, it could have been used to keep a lamp in.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.63), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-east, across garden area towards exedra or large triclinium.

The large room had a window overlooking the garden area.

It was not decorated, but perhaps the paintings had fallen together with the plaster from the walls, or perhaps also here the new restorations were not complete.

See Trendelenburg in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1871, (p.173)

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east along corridor on south side of pseudoperistyle and garden.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Pseudoperistyle, cistern mouth.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east across three-sided pseudoperistyle.

I.3.25 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east into area of steps to upper floor, on north-east corner of peristyle.

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