II.3.8 Pompeii. Potter’s Workshop and House.

Excavated 1939, 1951 to 1953.

II.3.9 Pompeii, on left, and II.3.8, in centre. December 2018.

Entrance doorways on north side of Via di Castricio. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

II.3.8, Pompeii. October 2023. Insula identification plaque originally known as II.6. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

II.3.8 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking towards entrance doorway and west along front façade towards II.3.9.

(Note: the notice-board with mention of Casa del Larario Fiorito, II.9.5, is nothing to do with the house here, II.3.8).

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

According to Maiuri – “Officina di un vasaio.

Along the southern front of the insula VI (note: this would be the old number of present II.3) opens the prospectus of a low building covered in plaster and furnished with slits, with roof all around sloping onto the street, and here from the painted sign outside, would have been the workshop of a potter.”

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1939, (p.198).

According to Varone and Stefani, a graffito CIL IV 7571 was found on the west of the entrance doorway.

Graffito CIL IV 7570 was found on the east of the doorway.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.208)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these read as:

Photus    [CIL IV 7571]

Paquium  II vir(um)

[…]  Nicanor cupit    [CIL IV 7570]

According to Della Corte, he thought the unknown owner or potter of this pottery, must have been named Nicanor.

This was due to the electoral recommendation, CIL IV 7570, painted in red near to the entrance of the atrium.

Two other electoral recommendations, painted in black, were also found nearby, these were

Nor. Nica (rogat)

Nor [Nica] fac     [these were unedited]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.387-8).

II.3.8 Pompeii, on right. October 2017. Front façade with II.3.9, on left.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

II.3.8 Pompeii. September 2018.

Looking north towards atrium area, from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north towards atrium area, from entrance corridor.

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north from entrance corridor.

II.3.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south from the garden of II.3.7 at the west wall of II.3.8.

II.3.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south from the garden of II.3.7 at the west wall of II.3.8.

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2005. South exterior wall of II.3.8, looking west towards II.3.9 and CIL IV 7573, covered with plastic (see below)

According to Varone and Stefani, on this area of the wall, CIL IV 7987 and CIL IV 7572 were found.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.207-8)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these read:

A(uli)  [Suetti]  Certi  [familia  gladiatoria  pugnabit (?)     [CIL IV 7987]

Paquium  Probum

Adve()  fac(it)  II vir(um)    [CIL IV 7572]

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2005. Graffito CIL IV 7573, on wall between II.3.8 and II.3.9, see II.3.9.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), this read as -

Messius    [CIL IV 7573]

II.3.8 Pompeii. September 2018.

Detail from graffito CIL IV 7573, on wall between II.3.8 and II.3.9, see II.3.9. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), this read as -

Messius    [CIL IV 7573]