I.14.8 Pompeii. Hospitium. Linked to I.14.9. Excavated 1954.

(Originally, this Insula was numbered as Reg. II, Insula 14, and then in the 1950’s at the moment of excavation altered to Reg I, Insula 14).

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-east towards entrance doorway on Via di Castricio. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.13 Pompeii, on left. December 2004.                  Via di Castricio looking east.                     I.14.8, on right.  

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. June 2012. Graffiti on exterior front façade between I.14.7 and I.14.8. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. 1959. Graffiti on exterior front façade between I.14.7 and I.14.8. 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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The inscription on the right reads

Cn(aeum) Helvium

Sabinum aed(ilum) d(ignum) r(ei) p(ublicae)

Porcellus cum suis rog(at)      [CIL IV, 9919]

According to Cooley this translates as

Porcellus with his household asks for Cn. Helvius sabinus as aedile, worthy of public office.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, p. 122, F50.

The inscription on the left reads

C(aium) Ateium Capitonem aed(ilem)

rogamus coloni et incolae      [CIL IV, 9918a]

According to Cooley this translates as

We the town’s citizens and resident aliens ask for Gaius Ateius Capito as aedile.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, p. 117, F26.

Just under this is also an inscription

Suc(c)ubus v(ale)   [CIL IV, 9918b]

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

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. September 2024. Looking south towards graffiti. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south towards graffiti between I.14.7 and I.14.8. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of graffiti, east side (left). Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of graffiti, west side (right). Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.14.7/8 Pompeii. December 2005. Graffiti between I.14.7 and I.14.8.

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2004. West wall and south-west corner.

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Niche in south-west corner. 

According to PPP, this was a decayed white niche with a red border on the south wall at its west end.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1981. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 1. Rome: ICCD. (p.192).

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of niche in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2005. East wall.

I.14.8 Pompeii. December 2004. East wall.

Pompeii. December 2018. Street altar against side wall of I.14.8 on Vicolo dei Fuggiaschi. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Street altar to west of I.14.8.