V.2.h Pompeii. Casa del Cenacolo.
Excavated 1891 to 1893, 1907. Restored 1975.
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V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Room ‘L’, east wall with decoration on a yellow background.
The triclinium had a floor of signinum, and the walls were decorated with panelled yellow backgrounds separated by narrow compartments with garlands.
The zoccolo/dado was of red/purple with painted plants.
It received light from two windows, one in the west wall overlooking the garden, and the other in the south wall looking into room ‘m’.
In the west wall, near to the entrance doorway, was a rectangular niche (height 0.78m width 0.49m). This would have been faced internally with wood on the sides, and at the back it was plastered with the same yellow as the walls.
At the foot of the east wall were two large blocks of limestone, remains of ancient construction.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.423) where the triclinium is
room ‘g’.
See Mau in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), VIII, 1893, (p.14-27)
V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Room ‘m’, looking towards the east wall with round holes for roof supports.
The zoccolo/dado was red.
The walls were yellow edged with “carpet” borders which are only just visible and separated into three panels by narrow red compartments.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2017. Looking north across atrium towards
entrance corridor with niche, in centre.
Room ‘b’, doorway on
left, room ‘c’, doorway right of entrance corridor with niche, doorway to
kitchen ‘p’, on right.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2019. Looking towards three doorways on north side of atrium.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. W.1382. Looking towards three doorways on north side of atrium.
On the left is the doorway to cubiculum ‘b’, the entrance corridor is in the centre.
On the right is the doorway to cubiculum ‘c’.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
V.2.h Pompeii. W.1383. Doorway to cubiculum ‘b’, and south end of west wall of fauces in atrium, on right.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2019. Cubiculum ‘b’, looking north through doorway from atrium.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2019. Cubiculum ‘b’, looking towards north-west corner and north wall.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Cubiculum ‘b’, remains of painted decoration on the north wall.
According to Spano, when excavated the walls of this room were described as having a complete white background.
Each wall was split into three rectangular compartments, separated by yellow candelabra and green bands, and a bird in the centre of each division.
The upper frieze was almost entirely destroyed but was probably decorated with the usual bands and arabesques.
The lower part of the wall was decorated with squares of small specks of various colours, imitating marble.
The floor was of mortar with numerous marble stones set into it.
Found in this room on September 28th, 1907, were three bone cylinders perhaps furniture hinges, together with three nails, a ring, and a type of small ferrule, all in bronze.
See Spano in Notizie di Scavi di Antichità, 1910, p.329 where it is referred to as ‘c’.
V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Cubiculum ‘b’ to west of fauces, remains of painted decoration, east wall.
V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.
Looking north from tablinum ‘f’, across atrium towards entrance fauces ‘a’ and two doorways to cubicula on either side.
The doorway on the left leads into the cubiculum ‘b’ on the west of the fauces. Cubiculum ‘c’ is on the right.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2019. Room ‘c’, threshold of doorway from atrium.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2019. Room ‘c’, looking towards north wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Cubiculum ‘c’, on east side of entrance corridor, looking towards north wall with window onto roadway.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2017. Cubiculum ‘c’, detail from upper north wall.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2019. Room ‘p’, doorway to kitchen in north-east corner of atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Kitchen ‘p’ in north-east corner of atrium, with hearth ‘2’, looking east.
According to Boyce, the lararium was on the south wall.
On the right of the picture can be seen the remains of the lararium serpents.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.37, no.107, Pl.17,2)
To the left of the hearth was a latrine ‘1’.
V.2.h Pompeii. October
2017. Kitchen ‘p’, looking towards east wall with hearth, south-east
corner, and south wall with lararium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2023. Kitchen ‘p’, looking towards south
wall with lararium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
V.2.h Pompeii. October
2017. Kitchen ‘p’, looking towards south wall with lararium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. October 2023. Kitchen ‘p’, detail of lararium on
south wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
V.2.h Pompeii. October
2017. Kitchen ‘p’, detail of lararium on south wall.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.2.h Pompeii. Pre 1937-39. Lararium on south wall of kitchen ‘p’.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 962.
V.2.h Pompeii. c.1930s photograph by Tatiana Warscher. Lararium on south wall of kitchen ‘p’.
The square niche had its walls painted with white stucco outlined in red and decorated with red spots.
Painted on each side of the niche were the figures of the sacrificing scene, but the plaster on the left had fallen.
On the right could be seen the tibicen, the Lar, and beyond him, a boy leading a hog decorated with a red band.
Further to the right, there may have been a further serpent.
In the lower zone, two huge serpents rose more or less vertically on each side of a cylindrical altar, painted in red and yellow imitation marble.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.37, no.107, Pl.17,2).
V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Kitchen ‘p’, recess in north-west corner.
According to Spano, a square window with preserved grating was found in the north wall.
Along the north wall, but perhaps at night only, may have been put a small bed.
In the west part of the north wall can be seen the characteristic hollowed recess destined to contain one of the ends of the bed.
See Spano in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1910, p.330 where the kitchen is referred to as ‘d’.
According to NdS, (1896), the west side (on the left) of the atrium was devoid of rooms.
On the east side, there was one small area with the possible clue of a staircase ascending to the rooms above the entrance fauces and the two adjacent rooms.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.422).
In NdS, (1910), further excavation had discovered a doorway to the kitchen on the east side of the atrium.
According to the newer discovery, it was then thought that the room above the cubiculum on the right of the fauces was accessible from above a room in the adjoining house.
The kitchen and the room from the house next door would have been in communication in ancient times.
In the left half of the east wall of the kitchen, a bricked-up wall/doorway could be seen.
A latrine was then constructed in front of the new bricked up wall, with the hearth on its right.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1910, (p.329-330) where the cubiculum on the west is referred to as ‘c’ and the east one as ‘b’.
V.2.i Pompeii, and V.2.h, on left, on Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento. September 2021.
Looking west between V.2, on left and V.7, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
V.2.i Pompeii left and V.2.h on Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento. May 2006.
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