I.11.1 Pompeii. Caupona. Linked to I.11.2. Excavated 1912/13.

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

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I.11.1 Pompeii. December 2007.

Entrance looking south-east across bar-room towards window into cubiculum.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking south through window in east wall of bar-room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking through window in cubiculum towards south wall with doorway into ala.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking east through window into cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards east side of bar-room, with entrance to ala doorways to rooms for customers, to rear.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. December 2007.

Looking towards the east wall, window of cubiculum, entrance to ala and doorway to rooms for customers, to rear.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking east into ala.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. East and south walls in ala.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

South wall of ala with painted plant (?an iris) in the centre of the zoccolo of the lower wall.

In the middle of both of the side panels in the middle zone would have been a flying griffin.

There would have been a central painting in the middle of the wall but this was never documented prior to its fading and becoming illegible.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

North wall of ala, looking north through doorway into cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking west in cubiculum towards window overlooking bar-room.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Upper west wall above window to bar-room.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking west through window in cubiculum into bar-room.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards north wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. North wall of cubiculum with window overlooking Via dell’Abbondanza.

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According to PPM –

“Della Corte interpreted the busts in the medallions in the side panels as divinities, on the north wall would have been Bacchus and Apollo, with Diana on the south wall.”

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. II. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 509).

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail of medallion on east end of north wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail from centre of north wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail of medallion on west end of north wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. North-east corner of cubiculum with bed recess.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail of stucco decoration on upper north wall.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking east in cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards east wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Upper east wall.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Painting from centre of east wall.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

South wall of cubiculum, with doorway into ala, on right.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Painted medallion in south wall of cubiculum, recognised by Della Corte as Diana.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2015. Medallion of Diana on south wall of the cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Painted decoration from south wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Detail of painted “twisted candelabra” from south wall of cubiculum.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2015. South wall of the cubiculum on east side of bar-room, with doorway to ala. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

According to Della Corte –

“The room to the east of the thermopolium, (room b) and communicating with it, was a cubiculum with rather neglected decorations of the IV Style, where only a few fragments of the barrelled ceiling could be recovered.  On the eastern side was the recess for the bed and, in the cocciopesto floor, a central decoration of a chessboard in diamond shapes, made with minute white marble tesserae.

In the centre of the largest panels of the walls were three medallions of 0.28m diam.

In the south wall, the head of Diana with diadem facing front, with bow raised high in the left hand, and quiver behind the right shoulder, and the other two from the north wall were of the head of Bacchus, crowned with vine leaves facing front, and with slender staff on the right shoulder, and of nude Apollo in threequarters looking right, with his lyre held between his hands.

In the smaller space (east wall), flying towards the centre, two naked Cupids, one holding a long lamp and a tray, and the other something like an umbrella.”

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1913, p. 249-50.

“L’ambiente ad est del termopolio, e con esso comunicante (b), era un cubicolo con decorazioni piuttosto trascurate di IV stile, del cui soffitto a botte soltanto pochi frammenti si sono potuto recuperare. Nel lato orientale era il rincasso per il letto e, nel pavimento di cocciopesto, una scacchiera centrale a reticella di rombi, fatta con tesserae minute di marmo bianco. Al centro dei maggiori riquadri delle pareti, tre medaglioni di 0.28m di diam. esibiscono l’uno (parete sud) il busto di Diana, di fronte, diademata, con arco nella sinistra levata in alto e turcasso dietro la spalla destra, e gli altri due (parete nord) i busti di Bacco di fronte, coronato di foglie di vite e con esile tirso sulla spalla destra, e di Apollo, in terza a destra, nudo, con la cetra stretta fra le mani.

 Negli spazi minori (parete est) convergono, volando verso il centro, due Eroti nudi, reggenti l’uno una lunga face e un vassoio, e l’altro come un ombrello.”

Ved. Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1913, p. 249-50.

I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2012. Looking east along south wall of the cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.11.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east along south wall of the cubiculum.

I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2012. Looking towards doorway to ala in south wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking through cubiculum to ala.

I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking towards the south-east corner of bar-room from entrance doorway. 

I.11.1 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking south-east across bar-room. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.

The doorway on the left in the south-east corner of bar-room went into a room for customers, against the north and east wall were benches, and a lararium niche was set into the east wall.

The doorway, in the centre, led into another room for customers (?).

On its east wall, where yellow plaster is visible, was a painting of Venus and Dionysus, now destroyed.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. II. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.512-515, nos. 8-13).

Kuivalainen describes –

“A composition of two figures standing in a landscape. On the left stands a youth with his weight on his right foot, leaning on a pillar; he wears a nebris falling from his left shoulder over his chest, and a cloak covering his left thigh but mostly falling on the column; he looks downwards at his right hand, pouring wine from a cantharus; in his left hand he holds a thyrsus. A panther sits with its left foreleg raised and drinks the wine. On the right stands a naked female figure with her weight on her right foot; in her raised right hand she holds a mirror, towards which she bends he head, and the raised left hand touches her hair; a cloak is falling down from her upper arm.”

Kuivalainen comments –

“A young Bacchus with a panther and a naked female, perhaps Venus by her appearance.”

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.130, D8).

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Room in south-east corner of bar-room with benches for the clients against the north and east walls and a lararium niche in the east wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

According to PPM –

“After the fall (between 1977 and 1979) of the last layer of white plaster, the ancient painting of the Genius with a veiled head, sacrificing to the altar, had reappeared. The face of the genius had already been stolen before 1977.”

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. II. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.513).

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking west from room with benches and lararium into other room for customers on south side of bar-room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Doorway in south wall of bar-room leading into another room, perhaps used by the customers.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking north from room on south side of bar-room, looking towards doorway to cubiculum and ala, centre right.

The doorway on the right led into the room with the benches and lararium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking west in room on south side of bar-room.

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I.11.1 Pompeii. July 2006.

Looking west into latrine, located in the rear south-west corner of the property. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

I.11.1 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking across bar-room and into room to the south.

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