VI.11.16 Pompeii. Lupanare of Aphrodite, Secunda, Nymphe, Spendusa, Veneria, Restituta, Timele.

Linked to VI.11.5 and VI.11.15. Excavated 1842.

According to Fiorelli –

“Succede un’altra casa col protiro fra due cubicoli, e l’atrio privo di stanze laterali, con focolare in un canto. Di fronte si trovano una cella ed un triclinio separati dalla fauce, che menava alla cucina, con cesso a parte, e ad altre rustiche località, da una delle quali guardavasi nell’orto che vi era sottoposto.”

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.70).

(Following is another house with a corridor between two cubiculum and the atrium without side rooms, with a hearth at the side. Found facing are a room and a triclinium separated by the corridor, which led to the kitchen, with a separate toilet, and to other rustic localities, from one of which looked out in the garden that was beneath it.)

VI.11.16 Pompeii. Plan including VI.11.5 and VI.11.15. VI.11.4/17 is also shown.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 76.

VI.11.16 Pompeii, on lower right side of photo. Google Earth. 2023. Looking west.

VI.11.14 Pompeii, on left of lower photo and VI.11.15 can be seen in the lower centre.  

VI.11.05 Pompeii, is in the upper photo.

VI.11.16 Pompeii. W1498. Entrance doorway, looking west on Vicolo del Labirinto.

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

VI.11.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to Fiorelli, this was another house with entrance corridor between two bedrooms, and an atrium without any lateral rooms.

In the corner of the atrium was the hearth.

At the rear of the atrium were a small room and a triclinium.

These were separated by a corridor that led to the kitchen with cesspit, and to another rustic room, one of which had a window which looked over the garden which was below.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.70)

For graffiti found on outside walls of the vicolo, see below.

VI.11.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west along overgrown entrance corridor to atrium.

VI.11.16 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west from atrium, along corridor between two rooms.

According to Della Corte, when excavated everyone believed that this was a Lupanar, and that this was proved by the characteristic inscribed graffiti on the outside walls, between the entrances 13 and 16 of this insula, and 23 and 24 of the opposite insula VI.15.

Translating the names and signatures of the many clients that had drunk at this cup of love shop, he transcribed the names of seven women who lodged here.

Ap(h)rodite, Secunda, Nymp(h)e ,Spendusa, Veneria, Restituta, Timele. ( CIL IV 1374-1391: 1402-1407; 4435-4444). 

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.61)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), these read as –

Restituta roga II

sus                        [CIL IV 1374]

Ole

Natalis

Verpe

Cunnerici

Aitsecundu

Domnae[3]

Cu[3]ortili             [CIL IV 1375]

Iucunde Secunda

Pangluc[3]re       [CIL IV 1376]

Secunde

/ [6]

te non expingebas quis te

nisi cum lectiomo

esset itaque non

/

calum exeneratu(m)     [CIL IV 1377]

Timele                    [CIL IV 1378]

Secunda

Liceiucundo

[3]la                         [CIL IV 1381]

Isidorum AILTDIMO

optime cun(num) lin<g=C>et IV[3]T      [CIL IV 1383]

]surus

Isis R()                    [CIL IV 1385a]

Succ(essus?)       [CIL IV 1386]

Timele ARITIS       [CIL IV 1387]

Timele felatri<x=S>       [CIL IV 1388]

Timele extaliosa   [CIL IV 1388a]

Nympe felatrix       [CIL IV 1389]

Temele IV               [CIL IV 1390]

Veneria

Maximo

ment(u)la

exmuccav(i)t

per vindemiam

tota

et relinqu<i=E>(t)

putr ventre

M V CIII

Cosplenu

CS                           [CIL IV 1391]

Myrine val(e)          [CIL IV 1402]

Spendusa Bessaxla valea(s)      [CIL IV 1403]

Eriva

val(e)                       [CIL IV 1403a]

Manio                      [CIL IV 1404]

Pusina mula

ti te amant

te vatcetus

mustula(m)             [CIL IV 1405]

Connus                   [CIL IV 1406]

Argyrus                   [CIL IV 1407]

Amar                        [CIL IV 4435]

Ianui

T() TAAAV                [CIL IV 4436]

]nidis                         [CIL IV 4437]

Neptunus                  [CIL IV 4438]

Pitane

vici(inis) sal(utem)

aer(is) a(ssibus) III   [CIL IV 4439]

Xystus

Xystus IIL                  [CIL IV 4440]

Isidorus

(a)eris II                     [CIL IV 4441]

Ti IIII II I II aia            [CIL IV 4442]

TI IIII II LII Ar             [CIL IV 4443]

Spus

us                              [CIL IV 4444]

Extracts from Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843.

(Note: “Sesta casa” (Sixth house) is part of Avellino’s description, and not a numbered location.)

It would seem he called VI.11.4/5/15/16 and 17, the Sixth house).

See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. IX, 1 Maggio 1843, p.67 (also entered into VI.11.5, 15, 16 and 17).

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. IX, 1 Maggio 1843, p.68.

See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. IX, 1 Maggio 1843, p.68.

See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. X, 1 Giugno, 1843, p. 73.

See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. X, I Giugno, 1843, p. 74.

See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. X, 1 Giugno, 1843, p. 74.