VI.10.2 Pompeii. Casa dei Cinque
Scheletri or Casa del Vaticinio di Cassandra.
Partly excavated in 1826, completely excavated by 1831.
Bombed in 1943. (Strada di
Mercurio 8).
VI.10.2 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking north on
Via di Mercurio, with entrance doorway, centre right.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. Old photo showing plaster on outside walls (undated).
Courtesy of Society of Antiquaries (Fox Collection).
VI.10.2 Pompeii. Pre-1942. Looking east to entrance doorway on Via di Mercurio.
See Warscher, T. 1942. Catalogo illustrato degli affreschi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Sala
LXXIX. Vol.1. Rome,
Swedish Institute.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Plaster on outside walls.
VI.10.2 Pompeii, on left. December 2018.
Looking
east on Via di Mercurio towards front facade with painted plaster, with
VI.10.3, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.10.2
Pompeii. October 2017. Looking south along front facade with painted plaster,
with VI.10.3, on right.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.2 Pompeii, October
2018. Looking east to remaining painted stucco
on front façade.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.2 Pompeii December 2018. Detail of traces of
remaining painted plaster on front facade. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of remaining painted
plaster on front facade. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. October
2018.Detail of remaining painted plaster on front facade.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. October 2018. Detail of remaining painted “carpet
borders”/edges on plaster on front facade.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. October 2018. Detail of painted borders/edges on plaster
on front facade.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. Decoration, on right.
According
to Zahn, these were paintings of two decorations in their original colours.
The
decoration on the right was found on an exterior wall of a house in Via di Mercurio,
see VI.10.2.
The
other decoration, on the left, with the arabesque with the flying figure at its
base was painted in a small room of a house of the street, situated between the
Pantheon and the Casa dei Capitelli figurati, (presumably from Via degli
Augustali either VII.4 or IX.7, but not located yet).
See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente
und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III.
Berlin: Reimer, Taf. 37.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Plaster to right of entrance, on south side.
VI.10.2 Pompeii but numbered as VI.10.1 on photo. Pre-1937-39.
Looking east towards painted plaster on south side of doorway. On the right is VI.10.3
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 673.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. Detail from old undated photo showing painted plaster on outside walls.
Courtesy of Society of Antiquaries (Fox Collection).
VI.10.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway, looking east.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Remaining stucco on exterior walls at entrance.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. December
2005. Entrance stucco.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east along north side, from entrance fauces.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking east from entrance fauces.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway into cubiculum on south side of entrance, looking west.
According to Bragantini, the west wall of the cubiculum would have been decorated with a black dado.
In the centre of the west wall, but interrupted by a window, would have been a yellow central panel.
The side panels would have been red.
The floor was of cocciopesto, patterned with white stones.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.230, cubiculo 3)
VI.10.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of floor pattern in cubiculum on south side of entrance.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east across atrium with marble impluvium.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east across marble impluvium
in atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Atrium with remains of patterned floor, cocciopesto with patterned white stones.
The north wall of the atrium would have been decorated with a high red dado.
The middle zone of the wall was faded, but panels with garlands could have been seen, the upper zone was illegible.
The south wall was illegible.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.230, atrio 2)
VI.10.2 Pompeii.
March 2009. Marble impluvium in atrium.
VI.10.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Blocked doorways on north side of atrium.
VI.10.2 Pompeii.Pre-1942.
Looking west across impluvium in atrium towards north wall and entrance doorway.
See Warscher, T.
1942. Catalogo illustrato degli affreschi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli.
Sala LXXIX. Vol.1. Rome, Swedish Institute.