V.2.13 Pompeii. Thermopolium and dwelling. Excavated 1875 and 1893.
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V.2.13 Pompeii.
March 2017.
Looking east along north side of Via di Nola, from V.2.13, centre left.
Foto
Christian Beck, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking east towards entrance doorway on north side of Via di Nola.
V.2.13, on right,
Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking north to
entrances on Via di Nola, with V.2.12, on left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
V.2.13 Pompeii.
March 2009. Entrance on Via di Nola.
V.2.13 Pompeii. October 2022. Entrance doorway, looking north. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking north.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking north across bar-room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across thermopolium.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Podium or bar-counter.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Podium or bar counter.
According to NdS, this thermopolium had a sales counter and a small hearth.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.438)
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Podium or bar counter, with remains of four urns, and small display shelving area.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of thermopolium.
According to Packer, in the south-east corner the remains of the high red dado can be seen.
This emphasised the white plaster which would have been above.
See Packer, Jim, “Inns at Pompeii” in Cronache Pompeiane,
No.4, 1978, (p.32-3)
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall, with corridor to kitchen and latrine and doorway to rear room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. West wall, with masonry hearth or base, and corridor to rear.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of thermopolium, and masonry hearth or base.
According to Boyce,
“Above the hearth in the south-west corner is a poorly preserved lararium painting: The Genius is represented sacrificing at an altar; on each side originally stood a Lar, only the one on the right being now preserved; further to the right a single serpent approaches an altar.
The above description is taken from Sogliano published in 1879; the descriptions of this house in Rom. Mitt and Not. Scavi, published fifteen and seventeen years later, mention only an altar is visible in a painting, but presumably all refer to the same shrine.”
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14, (p.34, no.92).
According to NdS, this thermopolium had a sales counter and a small hearth.
On the west wall Sogliano could see the remains of a painted lararium, with a serpent sliding towards an altar on the left.
At the rear was located the room for the customers, which was bordered by a corridor to the latrine.
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.438)
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along west wall of thermopolium.
According to Mau in BdI, the steep stairs to the upper rooms also leaned against this wall, and at a height of 3.25 the holes for the beam supports for the upper floor could be seen.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking south along west wall.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Masonry hearth or base, in south-west corner of bar-room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of thermopolium.
According to Mau, he could believe that the remains of the material to the left of the entrance were a hearth.
Above this was painted the usual serpent, although only the right side was conserved.
Also against the left wall were the very steep stairs to the upper rooms.
Also found was a small cylindrical travertine altar, used no doubt for the sacrifices before the lararium (see V.2.14 for a note by Boyce).
See Mau, A., 1894. Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume VIII. (p.49)
According to Boyce, above the hearth was a badly preserved lararium painting.
The Genius was represented sacrificing at an altar.
On each side stood a Lar, but only the one on the right was preserved.
Further to the right a serpent approached an altar.
This description was from Sogliano published in 1879.
Reports in periodicals published in 1894 and 1896 mention only an altar as being visible in a painting.
Today, nothing remains.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (No. 92 on p34)
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-1879, Naples. (p.12, no.20)
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. North wall of bar-room with doorway to a rear room.
Looking north through doorway into rear room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Looking north-east through doorway of rear room in north wall of bar-room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to rear room in north wall of bar-room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to rear room
According to Mau in BdI, when found this room was painted in the Fourth Style on a white background.
It too had an upper room above it, the floor of which would have been at a height of 3.30m.
See Mau, A., 1894. Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume VIII. (p.49)
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of rear room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking towards the north wall of the rear room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of rear room.
V.2.13 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of rear room.