VI.2.27 Pompeii. Small house. Excavated 1812.

VI.2.27 Pompeii, on left. May 2011. Entrance doorways to both VI.2.27, and VI.2.26, on right. Looking west.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway looking west.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance corridor, with rooms only on one side. Looking west.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Triclinium, with recess in south-east corner.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. September 2005. West wall of triclinium, with small cubiculum with antechamber on its west side.

V1.2.27 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking south-east along corridor from kitchen area.

In the upper right is a room of VI.2.28, probably a storeroom on east side of kitchen area belonging to that house.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. May 2011. Kitchen hearth.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Kitchen hearth.

According to Hobson, the kitchen had a cooking surface and a niche latrine in the same room.

Between them was a circular cover set in a square stone slab of the floor.

This could be raised by pulling on a metal ring giving access to the cess-pit.

See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.90)

VI.2.27 Pompeii. July 2005. Looking east towards niche latrine in kitchen. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. May 2011. Niche latrine in kitchen.

VI.2.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Niche latrine in kitchen, looking north.

VI.2.27 Pompeii, in top left corner, next to VI.2.26. Viewed from the model in the Naples Archaeological Museum.