I.8.18 Pompeii. Casa dell’ Atrio Dorico or Domus of Balbus.

Excavated 1937.

I.8.18 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway. 

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Vicolo dell’Efebo.

I.8.18 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across atrium. 

I.8.18 Pompeii. September 2005. Atrium. 

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Atrium looking east.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of impluvium in atrium.

I.8.18 Pompeii. 1972. Domus of Balbus, atrium, E wall, by SE corners. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1975. Domus of Balbus, atrium, SE corners. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1972. Domus of Balbus, atrium, SE corners. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1975. Domus of Balbus, atrium, detail S wall in SE corner. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1965. Domus of Balbus, atrium, S wall, detail.  Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of atrium.

I.8.18 Pompeii. 1975. Domus of Balbus, atrium, right S wall, overall. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1975. Domus of Balbus, atrium, right S wall, overall.  Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1975. Domus of Balbus, atrium, right S wall, overall. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1972. Domus of Balbus, atrium, S wall, overall view. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1965. Domus of Balbus, atrium, S wall. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west through doorway of room to south of the entrance.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall with window in room to south of the entrance.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of room to south of the entrance.

This room was described as having a high red zoccolo with panels, above which was a row of fake ashlars outlined in black, shelf and cornice.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall, similarly decorated to north and other walls, in room to south of the entrance.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of rooms to north of the entrance with two doorways.

On the right of the doorway on the right side of the picture, is an ala (not photographed).

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Room on north side of atrium, on the left is the north ala, just visible.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south-east across atrium to remains of small peristyle area and stairs on east wall.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of a two-sided staircase with small room underneath.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to kitchen on south side of staircase.

I.8.18 Pompeii, 1975.

Domus of Balbus, kitchen, NW of atrium, back W wall by NW corner. Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

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I.8.18 Pompeii. 1977. Lararium in room 8.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. 1. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 918.

I.8.18 Pompeii. Old photo of lararium on the south wall in the kitchen.

According to Giacobello, this is the lararium in the kitchen of I.8.18.

She shows a contemporary photograph to confirm this.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.142).

PPM shows a similar contemporary photograph in I.8.18. This old lararium photo however is shown as I.8.17 in PPM.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. 1. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 918, n. 7; p. 853, n. 13.

According to Fröhlich, in a 1941 archive photograph it was said to be in the atrium of I.8.17 Casa dei Quattro Stili.

He considered the niche remaining in I.8.17 did not have enough room on its left side to fit in the left Lar and serpent.

He attributed it to an unspecified house in insula I.8, because from 1937 to 1941 this was the only place excavations took place.

He describes a white-ground painted wall surface with an arched niche. The niche is located roughly in the centre of the wall and is flanked by two Lares, each with a small plant at their feet. A round altar is painted below the niche, flanked by two diagonally ascending snakes. Oleander-like plants fill the background. A small altar made of terracotta and two primitive-looking tuff busts with angular arm stumps were placed in the niche, probably the imagines maiorum.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L10, p.254, Taf. 25,3).

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Broken terracotta pot.

I.8.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Room under rubble in north-east corner of house with remains of staircase on the east wall.