VI.11.7 Pompeii. Small house with workshop. Excavated 1841.
According to Fiorelli –
“Piccola abitazione
di tre sole stanze, cioè androne, cubicolo e triclinio, oltre un lungo recesso,
in fondo al quale stavano il focolare e la latrina.”
See Pappalardo,
U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli:
Massa Editore. (p. 69).
(Small
house of only three rooms, that is the entrance corridor, cubiculum and
triclinium, other than a long recess, at the bottom of which were the hearth
and the latrine.)
Extracts from Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno
Primo, 1843.
(Note: “Seconda casa” (Second house) is part of Avellino’s description, and not a numbered location.)
See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. IX, I Maggio 1843, p.66.
Exterior street wall outside VI.11.6 and VI.11.7, Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-east.
VI.11.7/11/12 Pompeii. Looking west. Google Earth. 2023. VI.11.7 is the area in the upper right.
VI.11.11 is the area in the lower left. VI.11.12 is the entrance on the lower right.
VI.11.7 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east from entrance, on the left would have been the triclinium.
According to Fiorelli, this was a small house of only three rooms, consisting of entrance corridor, cubiculum and triclinium.
Apart from these rooms it also had a long recess, at the back in which were the hearth and the latrine.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 69).
VI.11.7 Pompeii. September 2004. Triclinium, on the left of the entrance, is under the pile of soil.
Looking south-east from entrance, towards tablinum of VI.11.12, at the rear of VI.11.7.
According to Helbig, in the kitchen area there were fragments of a lararium painting.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (89).
VI.11.7 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east to doorway to cubiculum.