I.3.28 Pompeii. One roomed Thermopolium. Excavated 1873.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

.I.3.28 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

A part of the street facade wall on the north side of the entrance doorway.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.75), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate on south side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway, looking west.

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli,

“this spacious shop with a marble-topped podium, and a hearth to the right of the entrance.

At the rear was another smaller hearth positioned under the wooden stairs that led to the upper floor.”

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: DAI, Rome. 

I.3.28 Pompeii. 1968. Entrance doorway, looking north-west. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.3.28 Pompeii. 1968. Entrance doorway, looking south-west. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Counter with three urns.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across counter. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Niche in south wall behind counter. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche in south wall behind counter. Boyce described this as a semi-circular arched niche.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards south wall and counter. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall.

I.3.28 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking towards rear of counter and south wall with niche. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across counter towards Vicolo del Citarista.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across counter. The remains of a hearth can also be seen on the west end of the counter.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards north-east corner of rear of counter. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall with remains of a feature, and south-west corner.

According to CTP, there is now no trace of the stairs which may have been constructed against the south wall in the south-west corner.

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

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west towards feature on west wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2005. West wall, and remains of feature.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Small hearth in north-east corner.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2005. North-east corner. Small hearth.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of hearth near east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking towards the east wall and hearth near entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of hearth near east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east through entrance doorway onto Vicolo del Citarista. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east from behind counter.

I.3.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of painted plaster on interior north side of counter.

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.”).