I.10.3 Pompeii. Dwelling. Excavated 1927 and 1934.
I.10.2 and I.10.3
Pompeii. Plan from Notizie degli Scavi, 1934, p. 266.
For details of “finds” from this house, including I.10.2,
See Allison, P.M. (2006). The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Vol. III The finds, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (p.48-55, & p.293-297).
See Online Companion with list of finds and
photographs for I.10.2-3
I.10.2 (on left) and I.10.3 Pompeii, (in centre). December 2018.
Looking south on Vicolo del Menandro towards entrance
doorways. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.3, Pompeii. November 2024. Looking south to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.
I.10.2 (on left) and I.10.3 Pompeii, (in centre). April 2017.
Looking south on Vicolo del Menandro towards entrances. Photo
courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.
I.10.3 Pompeii. April 2017.
Entrance doorway and west side of entrance corridor and front
facade. Photo courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.
I.10.3 Pompeii. April 2017. Identification number-plate. Photo
courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.3 Pompeii. April 2017. Painted plaster on west side of
entrance. Photo courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Painted plaster on west side of entrance.
I.10.3 Pompeii. April 2017.
Looking south along entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Adrian
Hielscher.
I.10.3, Pompeii. November 2024.
Looking towards east wall of fauces/entrance corridor with niche. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.
I.10.3, Pompeii. November 2024. Niche on east wall of fauces/entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Niche
on east wall of fauces/entrance corridor. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail of niche on east wall of fauces/entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.3 Pompeii. April 2017. Niche on east wall of
fauces/entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Niche on east wall of fauces.
Fröhlich described a painted round altar, small snake, two Lares and an inscription “Felix aeris IV as, Florus X”.
See Fröhlich, T., 1991, Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L13 p. 255).
Varone refers to the inscription as painted in red on a small aedicule located in the vestibulum. “Felix aeris as(sibus) IV, Florus X”.
According to Varone, CIL IV 7339 is translated as “Felix for four asses, Florus for ten”.
See Varone, A., 2001, Erotica
Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii. Rome: L’ Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 154).
See Varone, A.
and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum
Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider
(p.120 for a drawing of the graffito, which Varone and Stefani say is no longer conserved).
I.10.3 Pompeii. 1934. Niche on east wall of fauces.
On the back wall is a painted round altar around which a small snake winds.
The altar is flanked by two pines and two Lares.
Above is a garland and below it in red was an inscription “Felix aeris IV as, Florus X.”.
Below the niche a small snake moves to the left.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934,
p. 272, fig. 5.
See Fröhlich, T., 1991, Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L13 p. 255).
I.10.3 Pompeii. 1937. Niche on east wall of fauces.
The red inscription “Felix aeris IV as, Florus X.” can be seen below the garland in the niche.
Comparing our photos and the original in NdS, and the angle of the graffiti recorded by Varone, show that Boyce’s photo in plate 14,2 is reversed.
His description saying the snake is “advancing r.” must therefore be taken to mean “from the right”.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14, p. 27 no. 42, pl. 14,2 (the photo here has been reversed and corrected).
See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum
Pompeianorum, Rome:
L’Erma di Bretschneider, p. 120.
I.10.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche on east wall of fauces.
According to Boyce, this shallow arched niche was painted white like the walls of the room but coated with a finer stucco.
A marble slab formed its floor.
Above the painted round altar in crude red letters was the graffito CIL IV 7339.
Beneath the slab of marble which formed the floor of the niche was scratched; LARES AVGVSTI.
[CIL IV 8282 –
Lares Augusti]
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, 271 and fig.5.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.27, no.47, with Pl.14, 2).
I.10.3 Pompeii but shown on photo as VI.9.2. Pre-1937-39. East wall of fauces with lararium niche.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 021.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Painted figures, altar and garland, visible on niche on east
wall of fauces. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2006.
Niche with painted round altar, two Lares, red garland and
an inscription below it, “Felix
aeris IV as, Florus X.”.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of remaining figures
on niche on east wall of fauces. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Painted serpent below the niche on east wall of fauces. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of painted serpent
below the niche on east wall of fauces. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
I.10.3, Pompeii. November 2024. Looking south from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.
Looking
south into tablinum (room 6 on plan), with window in rear wall into small room
(11 on plan). Photo courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south from entrance towards tablinum with window at rear.
I.10.3, Pompeii. November 2024.
Looking
south across atrium towards tablinum 6, with window in rear wall into small
room 11, with room 9, on right.
Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.
I.10.3 Pompeii. April 2017.
Looking across atrium towards west side of
tablinum, and room 9 on plan, on right. Photo courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
According to NdS,
“Room 9 was a corridor with steps to the upper
floor, which probably had only two or three rooms overlooking the front of the
roadway, and perhaps one built above the pseudo-atrium. The fall of the upper
walls and the state of conservation of the few left standing, with traces of 4th
Style decoration, do not give a clear interpretation of the distribution of
rooms.”
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, 274-5.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2005.
Cubiculum, room on west side of entrance corridor, (room 5 on plan), with window overlooking Vicolo del Menandro.
The doorway is to be found on the north wall of the atrium.
I.10.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Floor of cubiculum, the room on west side of entrance corridor.