III.4.2 Pompeii. House of C. Arrius Crescens, T. Arrius Polites and M. Arrius Polites, Arrius Stephanus.

Linked to III.4.3, Casa del Moralista or House of the Moralist.

III.4.2 and III.4.3 are linked together and in addition, the original entrance to III.4.3 shown on the Eschebach plan has been bricked up and converted to a window. 

A new entrance is further west but gives access to both houses. 

As a result, we have combined the pictures of the two houses. 

A combined room plan for III.4.2 and III.4.3 and combined pictures of both houses can be found on the pages for III.4.3.  

Combined pictures of III.4.2 and III.4.3      Combined room plan

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Entrance doorway on north side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

III.4.2 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking north to entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

III.4.2 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking north-west on Via dell’Abbondanza towards west side of entrance doorway, and III.4.1, on left.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

III.4.2 Pompeii. October 2017. Entrance doorway, with site of the remains of the Oscan Eituns, centre left.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

On the left of the photo are the remains of the Oscan Eituns.

III.4.2 Pompeii. October 2017. West (left) of entrance doorway, partially conserved Oscan Eituns.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of Oscan Eituns, to left of entrance, described as partially conserved.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.257-259 with photos).

See Antonini, R., in Quaderni di Studi Pompeiani 1/2007. Assoc. Internazionale Amici di Pompei, (p.47-114) for Eituns No. 6, VE28, p.48.

III.4.2 Pompeii. Undated photo, pre 1943. Remains of Oscan Eituns, to left of entrance. Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

According to Garcia y Garcia, most damaging was the loss of the Oscan Eituns found in 1915 on the external wall to the left of the entrance doorway, because of the fall of the fragile plaster due to the bombardment in 1943. 

Both the houses at nos. 2 and 3 sustained severe bomb damage in September 1943, part of the west wall of the garden collapsed, ceilings and rooms on the upper storey were demolished, while wall paintings suffered heavily.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.56-58 - 7 photos before & after the bombing, and after restoration, description of damage, p 56).

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of painted graffito to right of entrance.

On the east side (on the right), under the protective glass, was the site of CIL IV 7685.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.256 with photo)

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

Holconium

Priscum d(uumvirum) i(ure) d(icundo) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)

Polites cliens     [CIL IV 7685]

III.4.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance corridor from atrium looking south.

III.4.2 Pompeii. October 2022.

Looking north through entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north to atrium from entrance.   

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north from entrance. 

III.4.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north from entrance.