VI.11.13 Pompeii. House.
Linked to VI.11.6. Excavated 1841.
According to Fiorelli –
“Quella che viene
appresso sembrami la casa, con l’annessa officina, di un negotiator di vestimenti grossolane usate da genti di mare.
La porta
costeggiata da due cubicoli introduce nell’atrio, privo di stanze ne’ fianchi,
e con una scaletta per montare di sopra. Esso ha nelle pareti varie date ed
epigrafi, riferibili a compre o vendite di abiti………
In fondo
all’atrio, ov’è pure
un focolare, stanno due grandi celle, e tra esse una fauce che mena ad un’area scoverta; la quale
ha da un lato altra cella o cubicolo, e poi un lungo compreso in forma
rettangolare, dove erano situati forse i telai per la tessitura delle vesti. Da
ultimo presso la porta della officina numero 6 un dormitorio, la cucina, la
latrina, e la scala che portava al meniano.”
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.70).
(That which
comes after seems to me the house, with the adjoining workshop, of a negotiator
of coarse clothes used by seafarers.
The doorway
flanked by two cubiculum leads into the atrium, without rooms at the side, and
with a stairs/ladder to climb above. Found in its walls were various dates and
epigraphs, referable to buying or selling clothes .........
At the rear of
the atrium, where there is also a hearth, there are two large rooms, and
between them a corridor that leads to an uncovered area;
which has on one side another room or cubiculum, and then a long rectangular
complex, where perhaps the looms for the weaving of the garments were located. Finally,
near the doorway of the workshop numbered 6, a dormitory, the kitchen, the
latrine, and the staircase leading above.)
VI.11.13 and
VI.11.6 Pompeii. Plan.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici: Vol. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 76.
VI.11.6 Pompeii. Google Earth. 2023.
Looking west from VI.11.13 entrance doorway, lower centre, towards VI.11.6, upper centre.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway, looking west.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. W1502. Façade on north side of entrance doorway.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.13, Pompeii. W. 1503. Wall on north side of entrance doorway, with window and blocked doorway.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west towards atrium, from entrance corridor.
According to Jashemski, a passageway in this house (excavated in 1842) led from the atrium to an open area on the right in which there was a cistern head.
Such an area would normally be a garden but, since Fiorelli on the basis of numerous graffiti identified this site as the home and workshop of a producer of sailors clothing, the garden may have been used for other purposes.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.144)
For list of graffiti, see below.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Hearth in north-west corner of atrium.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. North-east corner of atrium.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking
east across atrium towards entrance doorway, centre right. Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. December 2018.
Niche
in upper east wall of room on north side of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy
of Aude Durand.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking
towards east wall of room on south side of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north into triclinium, on north side of corridor.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Cubiculum on south side of open area, with niche in west wall.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards west wall of
cubiculum with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. December 2018.
Niche
in west wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of niche in west wall
of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across open area, on the right in which there is a cistern head.
The corridor ahead would have led to VI.11.6.
VI.11.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Cistern head in north-east corner of open area.
According to Fiorelli, on the atrium walls were written various dates and graffiti, referring to the buying and selling of clothes.
Written by someone ascending the stairs were –
K XII MAIAS TVN
PAL
NONIS MAIS FAS
VIII IDVS MAS
TVNICAS II
and another
III IDVS APRILIIS
TVNICA + I
On the south wall a list of names was also found.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.70)
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these were
K(alendas) XII
Maias tun(icam) pal(lium)
Nonis Mai(i)s
fas(ciam)
VIII Idus Ma(ia)s
tunicas II [CIL IV 1393]
III Idus Apriles
tunica(m)
|(denarii) I
IIIA[ [CIL IV 1392]
According to Della Corte, there was no trace of the name of the owner of this small house, but Fiorelli believed this was an establishment of an Officina Vestiaria which would have produced special clothing for seamen.
A list of names, clearly legible were those of -
(Nautae) Alexander,
Mena, Dinibales (?), Synoris, Spurius, Macer, Domitius, Speratus, Primogenes,
Tebaldus e Iucundus [CIL IV 1396-98]
some of the names were repeated.
See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p. 60)
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these names were -
Aliexs dixit
numen
Mena dixit
(h)onore(m) [CIL IV 1396]
Dinibales
Synoris
Spurius
Macer
Domitius
Alexander
/
Cius
Casarito
Sperat()
Primoc[1]ves
/
Per omnia
fata
[3]o Ibineus
et te Tebalde
Ame Necuis
Eco Solus [CIL IV 1397]
Iucundus
Sinurini
sal(ve) [CIL IV 1398]
Extracts from Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano,
Anno Primo, 1843.
(Note: “Quarta casa” (Fourth house) is part of Avellino’s description,
and not a numbered location.)
See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno
Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. IX, 1 Maggio 1843,
p.66. (also entered at VI.11.6).
See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno
Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. IX, 1 Maggio 1843,
p.67.
See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno
Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. X, 1 Giugno 1843, p.
73.