I.10.13 Pompeii. Caupona. Excavated 1932.

I.10.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to NdS, -

This wide doorway, with a wooden threshold and brick door-jambs, led into a rectangular room (6.10m x 3.50m) with walls covered by a high cocciopesto zoccolo, and upper walls plastered, the flooring was cocciopesto, and the ceiling was flat.

In the west wall, other than a bricked-up doorway communicating with one of the rustic rooms of the Casa del Menandro, the first brick steps of a wooden stairs leading up to the mezzanine was found in the south-west corner.

The threshold was occupied with two thirds of the short side of the brick counter covered in cocciopesto and painted red, having the hearth at the west end of the long side and two small clay dolia embedded into it.

For the finds, found on this counter, see NdS, 1934, p.340.

For details of “finds” from this house,

See Allison, P.M. (2006). The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Vol. III The finds, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (p.248 & p.367).

See Online Companion with details and photographs of finds from I.10.13

I.10.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of two-sided stuccoed masonry podium.
According to Packer, originally this stuccoed podium would have been painted red.
See - Packer, Jim: Inns at Pompeii: a short survey. In Cronache Pompeiane, IV, 1978, (p.30-31).

I.10.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of two-sided stuccoed masonry podium.

According to Packer, originally this stuccoed podium would have been painted red.

See Packer, Jim: Inns at Pompeii: a short survey. In Cronache Pompeiane, IV, 1978, (p.30-31).

I.10.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of podium, originally with two urns and a hearth.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.56)

I.10.13 Pompeii. Bronze and terracotta items found on the sales counter/podium.
According to NdS –
Found collected on this podium/counter were the group of household goods.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, p.337 (fig. 36).
For the list of finds found on this counter, see NdS, p.340.

I.10.13 Pompeii. Bronze and terracotta items found on the sales counter/podium.

According to NdS –

Found collected on this podium/counter were the group of household goods.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, p.337 (fig. 36).

For the list of finds found on this counter, see NdS, p.340.

I.10.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across bar-room towards base of steps to upper floor, in south-west corner.

I.10.13 I.10.14 Looking north

I.10.13 Pompeii, on left. September 2005. And I.10.14, (blocked doorway). Looking north.