VI.5.14 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1836, 1843.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north to entrance doorway.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking north along entrance corridor to three-sided peristyle.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. May 2004. Looking north along east portico towards rear rooms on north side. The lararium can be seen on the left.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005.

According to Jashemski, standing against the west wall at the end of the north portico was an aedicula lararium.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.126).

VI.5.14 Pompeii. 1930s photo of lararium by Tatiana Warscher.

According to Boyce, it had a solid base with two heavy walls forming a rectangular niche, surmounted by a gable roof with a simple pediment.

The walls inside were covered with unpainted white stucco.

In the floor was embedded a square block of marble, in which was cut a rectangular hole.

It was as if this was meant to hold the pivot upon which turned a door to close the shrine.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p.46, no.154, and Pl.34,2)

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.269)

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. North-west corner of peristyle.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorway to room on south side of kitchen.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west through doorway into kitchen area

The walls of the latrine can be seen in north-west corner.

The north-west corner of this room, the latrine, shows that today there is no doorway of VI.5.11 here, as shown on Eschebach plan.

VI.5.11, steps to an independent upper floor, is now to the north of this corner, fronting onto Vicolo di Modesto, and is completely separate from here.

According to CTP, the north-west corner of the house at VI.5.14 was excavated in 1817, as well as the pseudoperistyle of VI.5.10 and atrium area of VI.5.9.

The street wall at the north-west corner of the house at VI.5.14 collapsed and was reconstructed, which may provide the reason why Tascone, Mau and Eschebach, all indicated a rear doorway of this house immediately south of the stairway, which, rightfully should be assigned a number.

The doorway is delineated by Russo’s map of 1817, and later by Mazois, Fiorelli – Sorgente, and Zangemeister (1865).

Today the number VI.5.11 is not in situ but it has been assigned by the SANP to the staircase.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1981. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part V. Austin: University of Texas. (p.196-7)

VI.5.14 front of picture (on left) and VI.5.13 at rear of large surviving wall (on right). September 2005.

Photo taken from Vicolo di Modesto, looking east towards north-west exterior corner of VI.5.14.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. North wall of kitchen, with hearth.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. July 2008. Looking north towards latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Latrine, looking north.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking south from room in north-west corner of peristyle.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Large middle room on north side of peristyle.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorway to room on north-east side of peristyle.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across large room on east side of peristyle.

VI.5.14 Pompeii. December 2005. North wall of large room on east side of peristyle

VI.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. North-east corner of large room on east side of peristyle.