III.5.2 Pompeii. Casa di Loreio. Excavated 1917, 1919.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2016. Looking towards entrance doorway on north side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking north towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2016. Entrance, with wall on east side with small window. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance, with wall on east side with small window.

According to Varone and Stefani, found to the east (right) of the doorway were –

CIL IV 7724, 7726, and to the east of the window CIL IV 7728, 7729, and 7730.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.278)

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

Paquium  et  Caprasium

IIvir(os)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  Loreius  rog(at)      [CIL IV 7724]

A(ulum)  Suettium  Verum

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7726]

Popidium

/

IIvir(um)

Loreius

facet(!)      [CIL IV 7728]

Paquium  d(uumvirum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)

Loreius  rog(at)       [CIL IV 7729]

P(ublium)  Sittium  Magnum

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  d(ignum)  r(ei)  p(ublicae)        [CIL IV 7730]

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2016. Entrance doorway and small window.  Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking north towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2016. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.2 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance doorway decorated with half-columns.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of west side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.2 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of east side of doorway, with III.5.3, on right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.2 Pompeii, on left. 28th September 2024.

Gladiators on their way to the Forum from the Amphitheatre, during “Ludi Pompeiani” event.

Looking east along north side of Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.