I.11.17 Pompeii. Casa Imperiale. Excavated 1954, 1960.

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I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance. 

I.11.17 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance with small room to side. 

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance room, looking into atrium and across to triclinium. 

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, atrium, looking east towards triclinium with window, and doorway to rear rooms.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, looking south-east across atrium which had no impluvium.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 2, to south of entrance.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, north wall of triclinium, on east side of atrium.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, painted wall panel from north wall of triclinium. 

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, east wall of triclinium.

I.11.17 Pompeii. 1968.

Room 3, detail from upper east wall of triclinium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.11.17 Pompeii. 1968.

Room 3, detail from upper and middle of central panel of east wall of triclinium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.11.17 Pompeii. Room 3, central painting on east wall of triclinium. Medallion of Venus with two cupids.

Now in Pompeii deposits, inventory number 20560.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, painted wall panel from east wall of triclinium. 

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, south wall of triclinium with window onto corridor.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, south wall of triclinium.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, painted wall panel from west wall of triclinium. 

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007.

Looking east along corridor to rear rooms, the triclinium window is on the north side (left).

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 4, looking south into cubiculum on south side of corridor.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, looking east.

According to Jashemski, this small courtyard in the south-east corner of the house may have served as a garden.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, looking towards the south-west corner.

According to Jashemski, there was a cistern puteal near the west wall of the small garden or courtyard.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.53)

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, terracotta pots in north-east corner of small garden area by entrance to kitchen.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. 

Room 6, looking north into kitchen, from room 5. The latrine is at the far end behind the small wall.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007.  Room 6, hearth in kitchen.

I.11.17 Pompeii. July 2009.

Latrine at north end of kitchen, looking east. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, latrine in north end of kitchen.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, north wall of latrine area.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, lararium painting over kitchen hearth.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991, Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L23 on p.258 and picture 27,3).

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, remains of lararium painting on east wall of kitchen.

According to Fröhlich, there was a white painted wall surface.

At the bottom, about in the middle, the upper ends of two palm bushes are visible.

To the left and right are the flanking Lars.

At the top are two garlands. The remains of a third garland has survived on the left edge.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991, Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L23 on p.258).

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, detail of south end of lararium painting in kitchen.

I.11.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, detail of Lar at (left) north end of lararium painting in kitchen.

I.11.17 Pompeii. Room 6, detail of Lar at (left) north end of lararium painting in kitchen.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991, Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L23 on p.258 and Taf. 27,3).

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