VI.2.22 Pompeii. House of M.
Pupius or Casa di Apollo or Casa delle Danzatrici.
Linked to VI.2.15. Excavated 1811, 1818, 1840.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking north-west towards entrance doorway on Vicolo di Modesto.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii.
September 2005. Entrance doorway on Vicolo di Modesto.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. Sketch of plan, with main entrance at VI.2.22 at top, and rear entrance at VI.2.15, lower side.
See Lesueur, Jean-Baptiste Ciceron. Voyage
en Italie de Jean-Baptiste Ciceron Lesueur (1794-1883), pl. 22.
See Book on INHA reference INHA NUM PC 15469 (04) « Licence Ouverte / Open Licence » Etalab
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October
2017. Looking towards entrance doorway.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Entrance fauces or corridor, looking west.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance fauces or corridor.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Floor decoration in fauces.
According to Blake, talking about small oblong pieces of coloured limestone set into flooring, irregularly disposed –
“A further development occurs in VI.2.22, where the oblong pieces (4.5cm x 1.8cm) are set obliquely in parallel rows throughout nearly the entire house.”
See Blake,
M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early
Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.30).
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2017.
Looking
east from atrium along entrance corridor/fauces, towards entrance doorway onto
Vicolo di Modesto.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking west across atrium from entrance fauces/corridor.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking west
across impluvium in atrium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2022.
Wall painting of the Maenad embracing an old Silenus and offering him a silver drinking cup filled with wine. SAP 17713.
This was originally part of a larger wall panel. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. Wall painting of the elderly satyr Silenus embracing a beautiful maenad. SAP 17713. (Originally part of a larger wall panel).
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east from rear entrance at VI.2.15 in Vicolo di Narciso.
Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across atrium and impluvium to entrance.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking east from atrium, towards entrance at VI.2.22, in centre, and doorways to cubicula on either side.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east from atrium, towards entrance at VI.2.22 and doorways to cubicula on either side.
Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011.
North wall with painted decoration and stucco cornice in vaulted cubiculum on north side of entrance doorway.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. North wall of cubiculum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. East wall of cubiculum, with window onto Vicolo di Modesto.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. South-east corner and south wall of cubiculum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. South-west corner of cubiculum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. West wall of cubiculum, with doorway to atrium.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across tufa impluvium.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.
Painted wall decoration from south wall of cubiculum, with red zoccolo, yellow middle zone and white upper area.
In the zoccolo were panels surrounded by “carpet” borders and separated by narrow panels with plants.
In the middle of the zoccolo was a panel with painted sea animals, which can just be seen, centre left, under the missing plaster.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.
Painted wall decoration in north-east corner.
The zoccolo was painted red, see south wall above.
In the yellow middle zone, the panels were separated by narrow compartments.
The upper area of the wall was white.