I.6.12 Pompeii. Taberna of Iunianus – negotiator ferrarius.

Officina ferraria. Excavated 1912, 1926-27.

I.6.11, on left, and I.6.12, on right, Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

One entrance, divided into two by a pillar. On the right are the remains of a street altar. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

According to Maiuri –

Near the corner of the shop at no.12, and therefore at the crossroads formed by the intersection of the Via dell’Abbondanza with the roadway between Insulae IV and VI of Reg. I, and Insulae I and VII of Reg. IX (so-called Vicolo di Tesmo), there is the usual masonry altar (height 1.06m) which would have been brought to light at the beginning of the new excavations on the Via dell’Abbondanza.

Only a few insignificant traces remain of the sacred figuration painted on the plaster above the altar’s floor.

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1929, (p. 428-9).

(Ara Compitale –

Presso l’angolo della bottega n.12 ed in corrispondenza, perciò, del quadrivio formato dall’incrocio della Via dell’Abbondanza con il vicolo fra le insulae IV e VI della Reg. I e le insulae I e VII della Reg. XI (cd. Vicolo di Tesmo) non manca la consueta ara compitale in muratura (alt. m. 1.06) che dove essere messa in luce fin dall’inizio dei nuovi scavi sulla Via dell’Abbondanza. Non restano che poche ed insignificanti tracce della figurazione sacra dipinta sull’intonaco al disopra per piano dell’ara.)

I.6.12 Pompeii. May 2005. The ancient wide entrance has been divided by a modern pillar.

According to Della Corte, two electoral recommendations were found painted to the side of the entrance doorway:

            Iunianu(s rogat)    [CIL IV 7181]                  (Iunian)us infelix (rogat)    [CIL IV 7182]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.283)

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

these read as:

C(aium)  Cuspium  P[ansam]

aed(ilem)  Iunianus  (rogat)      [CIL IV 7181]

[L(ucium)  Popi]dium  Secu[nd]um

[aed(ilem)]  d(ignum)  r(ei)  p(ublicae)  [Iunian]us     [CIL IV 7182]

I.6.12 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking towards south-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2007. South-east corner with remains of painted wall decoration on east and south walls. 

I.6.12 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking towards south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards east end of south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018. South wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. October 2013. Painted decoration on south wall. Photo courtesy of Paula Lock.

In this room, the low zoccolo/plinth was yellow and sprinkled with red.

Above the zoccolo, in the middle zone of the south wall are the remains of two large red painted panels, with a narrow yellow panel between them.

Hanging in the red panels were painted garlands, shields, discs and lances; the vignette in the centre of the east panel depicted a dove, and the vignette in the centre of the other red panel showed a couple of doves on a branch.

In the yellow panel was a painted figure.

According to de Vos in PPM, the male figure dressed in a green tunic and red cloak, painted on a yellow background, held a decoy bird in his raised right hand and a long twig (una paniuzza) in his left hand, and was standing on a cage that served for transport and base for the decoy.

The upper zone of the wall was painted white and divided into panels by red vertical borders.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. 1. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 398-9.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

Painted decoration on south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of painted figure from south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of painted decoration from centre of south wall, at side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of remaining painted decoration from west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.6.12 side wall, on left. December 2005.         Vicolo del Citarista, looking south.                      Side wall of I.4, on right.

I.6.12 or I.6.13 Pompeii. Round white limestone weight. SAP inventory number 3918. 

The two other black basalt weights were found somewhere in Pompeii; the larger one has SAP 20349 on it.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum where it is given as from I.6.13. September 2009.

I.6.12 or I.6.13 Pompeii. Round white limestone weight. SAP inventory number 3918. 

According to NdS (1929), this has the inscription SOC CRET on the side and X X on the top.

The location is given as I.6.12. Photo courtesy of Dan Pater.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929, p. 430.

According to the SANP at the Day in Pompeii September 2009 exhibition this is from I.6.13.

I.6.12 Pompeii, according to Warsher. Pre-1937-39. Display items.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1854.