I.11.3 Pompeii. Shop and Taberna. Excavated 1913.

(Originally when excavated, this was numbered as Reg. II, Insula 1, no.3).

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards entrance doorway on south side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.11.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.

According to Della Corte, high up on the black zoccolo to the right of entrance number 3, two graffitied names were found –

Mendax [CIL IV, 8434]. Vestali [CIL IV, 8435]

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1913, p.360.

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (www.manfredclauss.de).

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2018.

Entrance doorway with window above, on south side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.11.3 Pompeii, on left, c.1920. Entrance doorways, with I.11.2, on right. Upper storey windows are visible.

I.11.3 Pompeii, on left, c.1920.

Entrance doorways, with I.11.2 on right. The painted electoral programma are on the pillar to the left of the doorway.

I.11.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance, looking south.

I.11.3 Pompeii, c.1920. Gavium Rufum and Ampliatum inscriptions on pilaster to left of entrance.

In Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1913, on p. 358, Della Corte wrote –

“On the pilaster to the left of entrance number 3, and above the zoccolo (plinth), the following programma came back to light -

Gavium Rufum / d(uumvirum) i(ure) d(icundo) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) [CIL IV, 7412]

And beneath it was an older one, which had mainly vanished, and another –

Ampliatum / aed(ilem) [CIL IV, 7413]

On the corresponding high brick plinth, an epigraph was traced with a red stone -

Barba(rus) / barbaru(s) [CIL IV, 8436]

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1913, on p. 358.

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (www.manfredclauss.de).

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Via dell’Abbondanza, looking east.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall with door to rear.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of staircase against south wall.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall with door to kitchen and rear door leading to garden.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking through kitchen doorway towards niche on south wall of the garden.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of niche on south wall of the garden. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on south wall of the garden viewed through kitchen doorway.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche on south wall of the garden viewed through kitchen doorway.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Kitchen doorway in south wall with remains of hearth.

I.11.3 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall.