V.2.10 Pompeii. Domus of Paccia. Linked to V.2.11. Excavated 1889, 1892.
V.2.10,
Pompeii, centre left, December 2018. Looking north to entrance, with V.2.11,
centre right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
V.2.10 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking
north from Via di Nola towards entrance doorway, and doorway through to atrium.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.10 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking north to entrance doorway on Via di Nola.
V.2.10 Pompeii.
December 2007. Entrance on Via di Nola.
V.2.10 Pompeii. September 2019.
East side of entrance corridor from Via di Nola.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.10 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking north across atrium and impluvium towards peristyle.
V.2.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north across atrium and impluvium to peristyle, from entrance corridor.
Looking north across atrium and impluvium through tablinum into peristyle, from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.10 Pompeii. October 2022. Atrium, detail from impluvium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, site of impluvium in atrium.
According to NdS, the Tuscan atrium had the usual impluvium in the middle, and nearby was the cistern-mouth.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.437)
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. West side of atrium with doorway to room 2.
According to NdS, when excavated not much of the wall decoration remained other than a small piece of yellow dado.
In the west wall of the atrium was the doorway to the narrow room, room 2, a cupboard or storeroom.
Room 3, tablinum, on the right is the east wall where the painting of Hippolytus and Phaedra was seen. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north towards room 3, tablinum.
According to NdS, opposite to the entrance corridor was the tablinum, with the doorframes covered in fluted white plaster.
On the east wall was the painting of Hippolytus and Phaedra, described in NdS and BdI.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1891, (p.268).
According to BdI, the tablinum was painted in the “style of the candelabra” but was only preserved on the right (east) wall. In the middle of the wall between two thin green candelabra a white panel was left (1.50 high x 0.91 length). It showed Hippolytus and Phaedra, occupying nearly the entire width but was not higher than 0.80.
On the same wall, on the upper part to the left, (0.54 high x 0.42 length) but badly preserved was a painting with doors, in the usual manner. On the left, was a clothed woman playing the lyre which she held on her left side.
To the right of the centre, another fully clothed woman (looking left) leaning against a column, raises her left hand, in which she holds an object in the guise of a roll(?) (un rotolo) and whose other extremity, seems to touch the chin. Further to the right up to the border, but further back, stands a building, open in front and back, in which you recognize a figure whose details are not distinguished: it seems, however, that she is naked and that she is putting a cloth on top of some furniture.
See Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen
Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume XXVI, 1890, p. 260-261).
V.2.10 Pompeii. Room 3, tablinum, east wall. 1890 drawing of painting of Phaedra and Hippolytus.
See Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen
Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume XXVI, 1890, p. 260.
V.2.10 Pompeii. Room 3, tablinum, east wall.
19th century drawing by G. Discanno of painting of Phaedra and Hippolytus.
DAIR 83.47. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. East side of atrium looking at doorways to rooms 4, 5 and 6.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. South-east corner of atrium showing part of south wall of room 6 and looking into V.2.11.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 2.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, north wall.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, south-west corner of small narrow room, or cupboard.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 5.
According to NdS, this doorway led to a spacious room on a slightly higher level, and which could have been a triclinium.
It was decorated with two paintings, both relative to the myth of Daedalus and Pasiphae.
The one on the east wall, see below, was cut.
Only a trace remained of the one on the west wall.
Straight ahead, Sogliano could see the figure of Pasiphae sitting on a throne and turning to the left.
She was wearing a purple robe fringed with blue.
To the left of her was the outline of a cow, near to which would have been the figure of Daedalus, who would have been almost in the middle.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1891,
p. 269.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, p.
437.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, east wall.
V.2.10 Pompeii. Room 5, triclinium, east (rear) wall.
1890 drawing of painting of Pasiphae in the workshop of Daedalus.
See Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen
Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume XXVI, 1890, p. 261.
V.2.10 Pompeii. Room 5, triclinium, east (rear) wall.
19th century drawing by G. Discanno of painting of Pasiphae in the workshop of Daedalus.
DAIR 84.48. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
V.2.10 Pompeii. October 2022. Doorway to room 6, looking north-east. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 6. According to NdS, this room was a cubiculum with red walls.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, tablinum with doorway to room 7 on left. Looking north from atrium.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, west wall.
According to NdS, this room was entered from the west side of the tablinum but also had another doorway under the south portico.
It had flooring of crushed brick (‘mattone pesto’) and the walls had a red background.
V.2.10 Pompeii. October 2022.
Room 4, corridor leading to peristyle area. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 4, corridor leading to peristyle area.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Stone base on north-west corner of room 8.
According to Boyce –
In the front portico of the peristyle, on the east wall between the stair and the door to an adjacent room, a mass of masonry stands against the wall (w.1.22, d.0.60), flanked by two heavy antae, the height of which cannot be determined. Probably they rose to a height of about one metre and upon them rested a vault or some sort of roof and this was the aedicula for the domestic worship.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (92, p. 34)
According to NdS, between the rustic room 8, and the stairs to the upper floor, was a recessed seat between two walls and built against the dividing room pilaster.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.437)
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, looking east.
V.2.10 Pompeii. December 2007. Stone staircase between room 8 and room 9.