I.7.19 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1912 and 1925 to 1927.
Linked to I.7.10, I.7.11 and I.7.12.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking east to entrance doorway, on left, with I.7.18, on right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Vicolo del Menandro, Pompeii. August 1976. Looking east to end of the Vicolo with fountain at its junction with Vicolo di Paquius Proculus.
On the left and centre are I.7.19 and I.7.18. On
the right is I.10.1 and I.10.2.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides
collection.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking east to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway, looking east.
I.7.19 Pompeii. 2017/2018/2019.
Looking east from
entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking west across threshold/sill of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking east across atrium towards tablinum with window, from
entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east across
impluvium in atrium towards tablinum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking east across atrium and impluvium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking east across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006.
Marble impluvium inserted in the floor of cocciopesto in atrium. At the corners and sides of the impluvium are coloured marble tiles.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking east across
impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking towards north-west corner of atrium, with entrance
corridor, on left. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Stairs to upper level on west side of atrium, near entrance corridor.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017.
Stairs to upper level on west side near entrance corridor and doorways to rooms in north-west corner of atrium.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorways to rooms in north-west corner of atrium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Two small cupboards under the stairs in room in north-west corner of atrium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to cubiculum in south-west corner of atrium, next to entrance corridor.
I.7.19 Pompeii. August 2023.
Looking west through doorway into cubiculum in south-west
corner of atrium.
Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006.
South wall of cubiculum in south-west corner of atrium. The restored door of the sliding window from the west wall can be seen.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards south-west corner and west wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021.
West wall of cubiculum with window. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards west wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. West wall of cubiculum in south-west corner of atrium.
The zoccolo was black and consisted of a plinth with panels above: the middle zone of the wall consisted of white panels with a red border.
The floor of this room was cocciopesto, the threshold was indicated by a “net” design of white tesserae in squares surrounded by black tesserae, whereas the anteroom and the alcove were with a series of regularly spaced white stone dots in lines.
The floor of the passage between the anteroom and the alcove was of black tesserae.
According to PPM, shown in the photos of 1977 and 1980, there was a sliding door on the window onto the vicolo in this wall.
It was restored after the excavation and can be seen in our photo of the south wall, leaning against the wall and no longer in its position on the window of the west wall.
I.7.19 Pompeii. September 2021.
Detail
of painted decoration from south end of west wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy
of Klaus Heese.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards north-west corner and north wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of cubiculum in south-west corner of atrium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. East wall and doorway to atrium in cubiculum in south-west corner of atrium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2023. Looking north across atrium. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Doorways to rooms in north-west corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to NdS –
“Cubiculum which, due to its unusual shape, seems to have been adapted in the more recent times into an exedra, (measuring 2.40 x 1.80m), originally open onto the atrium. It was possible to draw the complete imprint of the door that with a single leaf served to close the cubiculum, and inside the wooden framework of the bed that occupied almost the entire width of the small room. At the ends of the bed and especially at the lower headboard, the pieces of bone that inlaid the wooden panels with geometric design remained in the compactness of the ash layer. The ceiling was flat, and above it there were traces of the upper room.
Near the entrance of this cubiculum, it was possible to make the plaster of the body of an 8 to 10 year old boy who, from his special position (the head sunk into the lapilli and the lower half of the body into the ashes), was thought to have fallen headlong from the upper floor of the house, with a wicker basket that he carried tightly with one of his arms and which was found next to him (fig.2, p. 360).
The unfortunate boy fell, with one of his hands brought variously to his mouth to protect himself from the asphyxiating fumes, and with the other hand raised aloft as if to try to save the basket in the fall, with which, he had deluded himself into thinking he was carrying a few provisions for his desperate escape.”
(Cubicolo che
per la sua forma inusitata sembra essere stato adattato negli ultimi tempi nel
vano di un exedra originariamente aperta sull’atrio (m. 2.40 x 1.80). si poté
trarre l’impronta completa della porta che con un sol battente serviva a
chiudere il cubicolo, e all’interno l’impronta della impalcatura in legno del
letto che occupava quasi tutta l’ampiezza del piccolo ambiente. Alle due
testate del letto e soprattutto alla testata inferiore sono rimaste nella
compattezza dello strato di cenere le filettature in osso che intarsiavano di
disegno geometrico i pannelli in legno. Il soffitto è piano e al disopra di
esso restano le tracce dell’ambiente superiore.
Presso
l’ingresso di questo cubicolo si poté eseguire la forma in gesso del corpo di
un fanciulletto di otto o dieci anni che dalla sua speciale positura (il capo
affondato nel lapillo e la meta inferiore del corpo nella cenere) si dove
pensare fosse precipitato a capo fitto dal piano superiore della casa con un
cestella di vimini che recava stretto con l’uno dei bracci e che gli fu trovato
accanto (fig.2, p. 360).
Precipito il
disgraziato fanciullo con l’una delle mani portata variamente alla bocca per
ripararsi dalle esallanoni asfissianti e con l’altra mano sollevata in alto
come per tentar di salvare nella caduta il cestello con cui si era illuso di
portar con se poche cibarie per la disperata sua fuga.)
See Notizie degli Scavi, 1929, (p.359-60).
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017.
Doorways to rooms in north-west corner of atrium, with plaster cast of a door from the exedra/cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Detail of plaster cast of door in north-west corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorways to rooms in north-east corner of atrium. The doorway to the triclinium is on the right.
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Doorway to triclinium in north-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Decorative floor in triclinium in north-east corner of atrium.
The floor was cocciopesto with regularly spaced white “dots” of tesserae.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of triclinium.
According to Maiuri –
“North wall -
From some fragments that have been collected and reassembled from the debris of the demolished wall, it can be seen that this picture repeated the same motifs of the landscape on the opposite wall, namely: perspective of porticoed building, a pond with a small shrine on one of the sides.”
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929,
(p. 362).
(Parete di nord –
Da qualche frammento che si è potuto raccogliere e
ricomporre dai detriti della parete abbattuta, si scorge che questo quadretto
ripeteva gli stessi motivi del paesaggio dell’opposta parete e cioè:
prospettiva di un edificio porticato, laghetto con un tempietto sacello da uno
dei lati.)
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Detail of wall decoration on north wall of triclinium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking towards the east wall of the triclinium in the north-east corner of atrium.
The zoccolo in this room was black. The central panel of this wall was red with a central painting, now faded.
The frieze was black, and the side panels were yellow and showed paintings of birds pecking among the plants.
The upper zone was white with two side aediculae, which had been destroyed by the passage of the ancient tunnellers.
According to Maiuri –
“The painting on the east wall is completely unrecognisable due to deterioration.”
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929,
(p. 362).
(Il Quadro della Parete di est è per
deterioramento del tutto irriconoscibile.)
I.7.19 Pompeii. May 2017. Detail from upper east wall of triclinium at north end. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. South wall of triclinium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006.
South wall of triclinium in north-east corner of atrium, remains of wall painting of an architectural landscape.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p. 74).
According to Maiuri –
(South wall (height 074 m, width 0.63 (fig.3).
Below, a small lake near whose banks on the right stands a small prostyle temple-shrine with two statues erected on circular bases in front of the columns of the prostyle and, suspended in the intercolumnium, a golden clypeus [round shield] with hanging ribbons.
In front of the area of the small temple three figures in the act of sacrificing around a low altar made up of three rough superimposed stones: one of them prone in the act of placing an offering, another erect in a solemn pose and followed by a young girl carrying a basket on her head: behind the sacellum a large pine tree covered with a foliage of characteristic needle-like leaves.
To the left of the lake is a low square chapel on a stepped podium, inside which one seems to see a clypeus with ribbons and in front of it figures of devout travellers approaching it; on the banks a fisherman (?).
Higher up, a long porticoed building, a stoa, extends across the entire width of the picture, with the central part raised in the shape of a tetrastyle propylon preceded by steps: in the large square in front you can see small figures sketched in a simple outline, and of these two appear to be in the act of fighting; at the end of the long portico is a rustic two-storey building covered by a conical cuspidated roof.
In the background you can barely make out the outlines of other buildings interspersed with cypresses and leafy bushes.
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1929, (p.
361-2).
(Parete di sud
(alt. m.074, largh 0.63 (fig,3).
In basso, un
laghetto presso le cui ripe a destra si eleva un tempietto-sacello prostilo con
due statue erette su basi circolari dinanzi alle colonne del prostilo e,
sospeso nell’intercolunnio, un clipeo aureo con bende ricadenti.
Dinanzi
all’area del tempietto tre figure in atto di sacrificare intorno ad un basso
altare formato da tre rozze pietre sovrapposte: una di esse prona in atto di
deporre un’offerta, un’altra eretta in posa ieratica e seguita da una
fanciulletta recante sul capo un cestello: dietro il sacello frondeggia un
grande albero di pino dalle caratteristiche foglie aghiformi.
A sinistra del
laghetto un basso sacello quadrato su podio a gradini nel cui interno par di
scorgere un clipeo con bende e dinanzi figure di devoti viandanti che ad esso si
approssimano; sulle ripe un pescatore (?).
Piu in alto si
protende per tutta l’ampiezza del quadro, un lungo edificio porticato, una
stoa, con la parte centrale rialzata a forma di propylon tetrastilo preceduto
da gradinata: sul largo piazzale antistante si scorgono figurine tratteggiate a
semplice contorno, e di esse due sembrano in atto di lottare; all’estremità del
lungo porticato un edificio rustica a due piani coperto da tetto conico
cuspidato.
Nello sfondo
si intravvedono a stento i contorni di altri edifici frastagliati da cipressi e
cespugli fronzuti.
Vedi Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1929, (p.
361-2).
I.7.19 Pompeii. Photograph of painting from south wall, shortly after excavation.
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1929, (p. 361,
fig. 3).
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Painting of architectural scene. Detail of wall panel from upper centre of south wall of triclinium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. West wall and doorway to atrium from triclinium in north-east corner of atrium.
I.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006.
West wall of triclinium in north-east corner of atrium with remains of wall painting of a sacred landscape.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p. 74).
According to Maiuri –
West wall – (0.68m high x 0.63m wide):
Severely damaged plaster (fig.4).
Below, a pond or a beach: on the right, a
portico with a staircase that almost forms the propylon of a peripterous
circular building elevated on a high podium: behind, a large leafy pine. On the left, the usual typical
two-storey building with steps, a canopy at the entrance, a large clypeus
suspended in a square niche in the base and an upper loggia. The figures that were supposed to
animate the landscape are completely unrecognizable.)
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929, (p.362 and fig.
4).
(Parete di
ovest – (alt. m. 0.68 x largh. m.063):
Intonaco
fortemente lesionato (fig.4).
In basso un
laghetto o una spiaggia: a destra portico con scalea che forma quasi il
propylon di un edificio circolare periptero elevato su alto podio: dietro, un
grande pino fronzuto. A sinistra la consueta tipica costruzione a due piani con
gradinata, tettoia all’ingresso, grande clipeo sospeso in una nicchia quadrata
del basamento e loggiato superiore. Le figure che dovevano animare il paesaggio
sono affatto irriconoscibili.)
Vedi Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929,
(p.362 e fig. 4).