I.8.5 Pompeii. Casa della
Statuetta Indiana or House of the Indian Statuette.
Linked to I.8.4 and I.8.6.
Excavated 1912 and 1938 (between 1930-1935 according to P.P.M.).
I.8.5 Pompeii, in centre. December 2018.
Looking
towards entrance on south side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
I.8.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.
I.8.5 Pompeii. December 2004. East wall of entrance fauces.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2024.
Looking south to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.8.5 Pompeii. July 2011. Entrance fauces. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
I.8.5 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking south from fauces.
I.8.5 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking south across atrium.
Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
I.8.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-east across
atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.8.5 Pompeii. August 1976. Looking south-east across atrium
towards east wall of tablinum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
1.8.5 Pompeii. 4th December 1971. Looking across impluvium in
atrium, towards east wall of tablinum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides
collection.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south across impluvium in atrium, to tablinum and garden. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.8.5 Pompeii. October 2014.
Looking across impluvium in atrium
towards tablinum and garden area. Photo courtesy of Marie Schulze.
I.8.5 Pompeii. September 2004. Travertine impluvium with moulded edges, in atrium.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Detail of east table leg. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Detail of west table leg. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.8.5 Pompeii. July 2011. Looking south across atrium, to tablinum and west side of garden. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south across tablinum towards garden area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Seen on the left, the east wall of the tablinum had a black zoccolo (lower portion) with painted plants with edges formed from a single line and separated by narrow geometrical compartments.
The middle zone of the wall had a black central panel with a painting (now removed); the side panels were red with vignettes of painted panthers, and there was a cornice of moulded stucco; the upper zone of the wall was ruined and rough.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south across garden area, from tablinum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Jashemski, the garden was enclosed by a portico on the south, east and north sides.
The west side portico had been enclosed to make rooms. A gutter outlined the four edges of the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, (p.42)
I.8.5 Pompeii. March 2010. Looking south across atrium to tablinum. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
I.8.5 Pompeii. Looking south from impluvium towards tablinum and garden.
In the room with the doorway on the right, (south-west corner of atrium) a ship graffiti was seen on the white west wall of the cubiculum.
At the rear of the garden was the triclinium.
Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975. House, right room, back S wall. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_5_37.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1972. House, room SW of atrium, W wall. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_72_25_19.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975. House, room SW of atrium, W wall with graffito of ship. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_5_36.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975.
House, room in NW corner of peristyle, (or south-west corner of atrium), general view of north-west corner of room.
Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_6_6.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975. House, room in NW corner of peristyle, back N wall, upper zone. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_6_1.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975. House, room in NW corner of peristyle, N wall, detail. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_6_2.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975. House, room in NW corner of peristyle, N wall, detail. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_6_4.
I.8.5 Pompeii. 1975. House, room in NW corner of peristyle, N wall, detail. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_75_6_8.
I.8.5 Pompeii. Ivory statuette of Lakshmi.
Found in a wooden chest on the west side of the Viridarium 8.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 149425.
I.8.5 Pompeii. Ivory statuette of Lakshmi. Found in a wooden chest on the west side of the Viridarium 8.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 149425.
According to Jashemski, Della Corte stated that the small Indian statuette was found October 24th, 1938, in the nearby I.8.19.
He thought it had been thrown down, when the south-west corner of the peristyle of this house had collapsed.
Maiuri said that the statuette had been stored in a wooden chest in one of the rustic rooms off the portico, together with various objects of domestic use.
Maiuri “Statuette eburnean d’arte Indiana a Pompeii,
Le arti (1938) pp 111-115
Della Corte, M.,
1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei.
Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino, (p.333-4)
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.42)
According to Berry, the statuette was found in the House of the Four Styles (I.8.17).
See Berry, J., 2007. The Complete Pompeii. London, Thames & Hudson, (p.200)
I.8.5 Pompeii. Pair of loaded dice (On right). SAP 7034b.
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
I.8.5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking across atrium to room in south-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
