VI.2.13 Pompeii. Small House. Excavated 1811.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across atrium and impluvium to tablinum.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. Tablinum.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Impluvium and cistern-mouth in atrium.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Room on north side of entrance fauces, north-west corner.

The walls of this room were decorated with a red zoccolo/dado/plinth.

The middle zone of the walls was painted white with panels edged with “carpet” borders, separated by violet strips which in their centre had painted golden candelabra, but very badly preserved.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Plastered wall.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. North wall of tablinum. 

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. East wall of tablinum.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. South wall of tablinum.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Tablinum, decorative floor.

VI.2.13 Pompeii.c.1930. Flooring in tablinum.

DAIR 40.319. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E.  1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, (tav. 11.2, above.)

According to PPM,

Although poorly preserved, the flooring of the tablinum in cocciopesto showed a border of meanders and alternative squares and with a central emblema decorated with a diamond of meanders and plant stems in white tesserae.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. 4. IV.Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.163.)

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across atrium to front entrance corridor.

VI.2.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Exterior wall outside VI.2.13 in Vicolo di Narciso.