V.3.10 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1901.

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V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway on Vico di M. L. Frontone, looking north.

The pavement of the street was unpaved when excavated and supported by rectangular blocks of Sarno stone.

According to NdS, whilst clearing the pavement portion, an inscription in white stones was found embedded in the floor.

The inscription read HAVETIS INTRO and was decorated below with plant motifs and white stones surrounding a rectangular slab of African marble.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1902, (p.274 and p.369)

V.3.10 Pompeii. Remains of [HAVETIS] INTRO mosaic.

According to NdS, whilst clearing a portion of the pavement outside V.3.10 an inscription in white stones was found embedded in the pavement floor.

The inscription read HAVETIS INTRO and was decorated below with plant motifs and white stones surrounding a rectangular slab of African marble.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1902, (p.274 and p.369)

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p.930, fig. 1.

According to the TESS database, the area in front of entrance 10 of a house, with a cement-lined sidewalk with a clay base with inscriptions on large white mosaic tiles, [HAVETIS] INTRO. Below the epigraph there are three aligned square inserts. The decoration also included "plant motifs, outlined in white tesserae that surrounded a small African marble slab" (De Vos 1991). The writing was chronologically related to the Republican age.

(“Area antistante all’ingresso 10 di una casa, con marciapiede rivestito cementizio a base fittile con iscrizione a grandi tessere musive bianche, [HAVETIS] INTRO. Al di sotto dell’epigrafe si osservano tre inserti quadrati allineati. Della decorazione facevano parte anche "motivi vegetali, delineati in tessere bianche che circondavano una piccola di lastra africano" (De Vos 1991). La scritta è stata cronologicamente riferita all’età repubblicana.”)

Photo Massara, Daniela, Casa, Regio V, 3,10, marciapiede, cementizio con epigrafe musiva, in TESS – scheda 14346, 2013.

INDIRIZZO WEB: http://tess.beniculturali.unipd.it/web/scheda/?recid=14346.

TESS records the mosaic as “CONSERVAZIONE. OGGETTO CONSERVATO: pavimento – CONSERVATO IN: situ (Pompei, scavi)”.

Marisa de Spagnolis recalled a 1964 visit to her uncle Dr Pietro Soprano at Pompeii at the house he occupied within the Pompeii excavations near the Stabian Gate. She wrote –

“Inside its hall, however, a mosaic read “Havetis Intro”, which was a good omen”.

“Twenty years later I would live in the same house as he had in Pompeii”.

Is this the mosaic from V.3.10?

See De Spagnolis M., 2017. Reliving Pompeii: The Adventures of an Archaeologist. Ali Ribelli Edizioni, Chapter 1.

V.3.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway.

V.3.10 Pompeii. Drawing of plan from Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.201).

a. - atrium

b. - impluvium

c. - on the right was a large iron stud/support fixed to the ground, perhaps marking the place for the strongbox/safe.

d. - understairs area, used as a cupboard/storeroom

e. - kitchen

f. - latrine

g.- cubiculum

h. - tablinum

i. - peristyle

l (L). – the walls of “space l or L” were decorated with a black zoccolo, lower wall red and upper wall white with two painted birds

one pecking at a cherry, the other at a plum.

m. - garden

n. - triclinium

o. – room to the right of the tablinum, probably an ample cubiculum with a well-preserved painted walls and vaulted ceiling.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west from entrance doorway along south side of atrium towards passageway to garden.

According to Eschebach, CIL IV 6714 was found on the south side of the atrium, see below.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.139)

On the black zoccolo of the south wall of the atrium the following graffiti were traced –

From the left –

Ampur(a)   [CIL IV 6710]

Amp(ho)ra amp(ho)ras   [CIL IV 6711]

More up to the right, in capillary letters –

Pr(idie) Nonas Aug(ustas)   [CIL IV 6712]

Much below -

[CIL IV 6713]?

Towards the middle of the zoccolo, high up

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), these 3 read as –

Lana

LV lana XXIX pondo    [CIL IV 6714]

Then to the right, and underneath –

Pr(idie) Non(as) Augusta[s]   [CIL IV 6715]

Following then, below, were a group of words which I transcribe as a whole:

Laciniae LXXXXIII Iulia / Clodia IIII / IIII Lacerti / habet VIII / II Panes Lacerti XIV / Helias   [CIL IV 6716]

Towards the right (west) end of the zoccolo, high up –

MMEE   [CIL IV 6717]

Amp()   [CIL IV 6718]

V.3.10 Pompeii. Graffiti from south wall of atrium. See Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, (p.205-6)

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de)

V.3.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west across atrium to tablinum and pillar with a rectangular niche.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to kitchen and latrine, on south side of atrium.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south in latrine and kitchen.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Latrine, with downpipe in south wall.

V.3.10 Pompeii. July 2010. Latrine. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.3.10 Pompeii. July 2008.

Looking south towards latrine and downpipe from an upper floor latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Hearth on south wall of kitchen. 

According to Boyce, a single serpent was painted on the wall beside the hearth.

No longer visible. He quoted Not. Scavi, 1902, 203 as his reference.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.39, no.115)

V.3.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Hearth against south wall in kitchen.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of kitchen.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. West end of kitchen.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North-west corner of kitchen. 

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North-west corner of kitchen. 

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall and north-east corner of kitchen.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along east side of atrium from entrance doorway.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of atrium, with remains of base (d) for staircase to upper floor.

The under stairs area (d) was used as a cupboard/small storeroom (armadio).

V.3.10 Pompeii but shown as V.2.10 on photo. Pre-1937-39. Looking across table on west side of impluvium, towards north-east corner of atrium.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 879

According to PPM,

The atrium flooring was decorated with white tesserae, of which traces were visible on the base of the impluvium, covered with cocciopesto.

The supports of the masonry table were painted in fake marble, the table was situated on the west side of the impluvium.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 931 pl.2.)

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of atrium with doorway to cubiculum (g).

The decoration of this room showed a black zoccolo and white upper plaster with some green and yellow stripes.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of cubiculum (g) with remains of plaster. 

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of cubiculum (g), opposite the doorway, found at a small height from the flooring, probably therefore the work of a child, was a graffito of a ship and other naïve attempts at drawing of objects.

V.3.10 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of cubiculum (g). 

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