VI.9.3 Pompeii. Casa del Centauro or Casa di A. Vettius Caprasius Felix.

Linked to VI.9.4, VI.9.5. Rear entrances at VI.9.10, VI.9.11, VI.9.12.

Excavated 1827. Bombed in 1943. (Strada di Mercurio 14).

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VI.9.3/5 Pompeii, on left. From the city walls looking south along Via di Mercurio. VI.7, on right.

Looking north on Via di Mercurio near VI.9.3 House of Centauro, September 2004. 

VI.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Exterior front walls with entrance doorway in centre.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W668. Façade and entrance doorway.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W 667. Façade on north side of entrance doorway.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. October 2022.

Entrance doorway, looking east through fauces 1. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

Found in this house in July 1829, was a signet ring with the initials –

AVII  [CIL X 8058, 97]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.141) PAH II, 227, 228; III, 100.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W670.  Façade on south side of entrance doorway.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W671. Entrance threshold to vestibule and fauces 1.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. April 2019. Looking east from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

According to Niccolini –

“No.3. The following are two houses communicating with each other, lived in perhaps by the same people.

The entrance corridor of the first house was preceded by a vestibule and leaning against it to the left was an oecus, and to the right by a cubiculum containing a small cupboard/closet. In the right-hand wall of the tuscanic atrium we could see two doorways, of which one was bricked up and the other led into the following dwelling.

On the left-hand side we found three cupboards/small storerooms, a repository and the masonry block used to support the domestic strongbox, near to where thirteen silver spoons were found.

At the rear of the atrium was the tablinum with an oecus on its left and a corridor on its right, leading to the garden area surrounded on two sides by columns joined between them by a masonry podium, in which was built a channel for the cultivation of flowers

To the left of the portico was a cubiculum, the stairs to the upper floor, the storeroom and the kitchen, which also had a secondary rear doorway (at VI.9.12) on the eastern roadway.

On the east side was a triclinium, an exedra decorated with a painting of Venus and Aeneas, (see Helbig 1382), and finally a ruined room.”

See Niccolini F, 1862. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Secondo. Napoli, p.35.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking east from entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. October 2022.

Looking east from entrance corridor/fauces (1), across atrium (4) towards tablinum (6). Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. October 2022. Atrium (4), looking east across impluvium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking east across impluvium in atrium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. July 2011. Looking east across atrium 4, from entrance fauces 1. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. October 2022.

Looking north-east from entrance corridor towards doorway to room 7. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across atrium 4 towards north-east corner, from entrance.

Room 7, at the rear on the left, had a niche/recess in its north-east corner.

Room 6, the tablinum can be seen in the centre.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. pre-1937-39. Looking east across impluvium in atrium.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1410.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. December 2005.

North side of atrium, with excavation on north side of impluvium, and doorway to room 7 in the north-east corner.

See Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, XVI, 2005, (p.188-9)

VI.9.3 Pompeii. October 2010.

Mosaic floor of earlier house, now under the impluvium. Photo courtesy of Gabriele Große.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. September 2019.

Doorways to rooms 2 and 5A in north-west corner of atrium on north side of entrance corridor/fauces.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W678. Atrium 4, looking north-west towards doorways to rooms 2, and 5A on north side of entrance corridor.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W683. Room 2, remains of wall decorations.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3/5 Pompeii. September 2019.

Looking north through doorway of room 5A in north-west corner of atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. September 2019. Threshold of room 5A in north-west corner of atrium, looking north.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. September 2019.

Room 5A, remaining decoration and flooring at west end in north-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W684. Room 5A, remains of wall decorations in north-west corner.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 5A, flooring at west end in alcove.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.3 Pompeii. W680. North side of atrium, doorways to rooms 5A, on left, 5B, 5C and 5D.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

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