VI.11.19 Pompeii. Hospitium?
Linked to VI.11.18 and VI.11.20.
Excavated 1842. (Area bombed
in 1943).
According to
Fiorelli –
“La quale ha il
protiro fra due cubicoli, e l’atrio tuscanico con impluvio di fabbrica, ornato
internamente ed esternamente di bianche pietruzze: vi stanno in giro tre
puteali, ed un quarto se ne vede in un canto dell’atrio, ove è pure situato un’ara, al
di sopra della quale evvi il dipinto dei serpi ai
lati della mensa. A sinistra si trovano la cucina coi focolari, i tubi dei
cessi discendenti nella latrina dalle stanze superiori, un subscalare
usato per apotheca, due cubicoli, ed il triclinio: a destra due oeci preceduti
da gradinata, situata in altro compreso adiacente al pomerio, con uscita
indipendente nel vicolo numero 20. Sembra che nel muro con cui ha termine la
casa stessero più aperture, dalle quali guardavasi
nel sottoposto giardino, il cui ingresso era nel vicolo ad occidente numero 3.”
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.70).
(This
has the entrance corridor between two cubiculums, and
a Tuscan atrium with masonry impluvium, decorated internally and externally
with white stones: around it there are three puteals, and a fourth is seen at
the side of the atrium, where there is also an altar, above which is displayed the
painting of the serpents at the sides of the table. On the left are the kitchen
with the hearths, the pipes of the toilets descending into the latrine from the
upper rooms, area under the stairs used as a storeroom/cupboard, two cubiculums, and the triclinium: on the right two oeci
preceded by steps, located in another complex adjacent to the pomerium, with
independent exit into the roadway at no. 20. It seems that in the wall with
which the house ends, there were more openings, from which they looked into
the garden below, whose entrance was in the roadway to the west at no.3.)
According to PPM
–
"The small house, located at the NE corner of the insula, had a rather unusual plan, even in the regularity of the arrangement of the rooms.
Explored between 1842-1843, it was partly destroyed during the bombing of 1943.
The vestibule, flanked by cubiculums (3) and (12), leads into the atrium that had a masonry impluvium covered with limestone fragments and four cistern mouths; the atrium was not followed by a tablinum but in the rear wall it seems that some windows opened towards the garden (4), of the adjoining complex with entrance at number 3, (VI.11.3), located on a lower level. Found on the right side of the atrium are the two oeci (5) and (6) and the room (4), open to the street and equipped with a staircase to the upper floor that also extended over the rooms of the southern side of the house (7) – (11), as had been deduced from the presence of descending waste-pipes in the latrine attached to the kitchen.
The decoration of the rooms, currently visible, seems to date back to the III and IV Style: a sign of an older phase of use was the short stretch of floor in cocciopesto with decoration of dots, dating back to the II century BC."
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici V. (5). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 76.)
VI.11.01/02/03 Pompeii, top of photo. VI.11.18/19/20, lower side of photo. Looking west. Google Earth. 2023.
VI.11.18/19/20 Pompeii. Plan.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici: Vol. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 76.
Wall between VI.11.18 and VI.11.19 in Vicolo del Labirinto. September 2005.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. September 2005. Overgrown entrance doorway.
According to Wallace-Hadrill, this was the main entrance to the atrium, at number 18 was the back entrance to the yard, and at number 20 was a workshop with stairs to the upper floor.
Originally there were style III and style IV decorations found in three rooms.
See Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1994): House and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton University Press, (p. 210)
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007.
Looking east out through entrance doorway (1) into Vicolo del Labirinto, from atrium.
VI.11.20/19/18 Pompeii. Google Earth. 2023. Looking south-east across atrium.
VI.15 can be seen on the upper left. VI.11.3 can be seen in the lower right.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-east across
atrium (2). Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to cubiculum (3) on north side of entrance at VI.11.19, looking east from atrium.
This was on the south side of shop or workshop at VI.11.20.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to cubiculum (12) on south side of the entrance corridor.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. W 1558. Looking east from atrium towards south wall of fauces, or entrance corridor (1).
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2018.
Household altar near east wall of atrium, with doorway to room (12) on left.
Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007.
Household altar near east wall of atrium, with doorway to room 12, on left, and to room (11) on right.
According to Boyce, against the east wall of the atrium, to the left of the entrance, stands an altar of tufa*.
This altar was apparently coated with a layer of stucco in the late days of the city.
On the wall above it were painted the two serpents confronted at a painted altar furnished with a pine cone.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.51, no.188)
* note on page 51 reads – according to Pernice, “the altar dates from the earlier Tufa Period and still stands against the tufa wall where it was originally placed”.
* see Pernice, Hellenistische Tische, 66 and pl. 40,1.
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p. 242)
VI.11.19 Pompeii. W.1559. Altar near east side of atrium.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007.
Doorway to east room on the south side, (room 11) kitchen leading to yard, and entrance/exit at VI.11.18.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across kitchen and yard (room 11) on south side of atrium.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. July 2008. Looking towards downpipe in west wall. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. W.1557.
Looking towards south-east corner of atrium, and south wall, with doorway to middle room, room (9) a cubiculum.
In the middle room the painted wall decorations from the east wall can be seen.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.19 Pompeii.
Detail from W.1557.
Looking towards south-east corner of atrium, and south wall, with doorway to middle room, room (9) a cubiculum.
In the middle room the painted wall decorations from the east wall can be seen.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room (9), cubiculum, the middle room on south side.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall of the room (9) cubiculum, the middle room on south side of the atrium.
This room was described as having a black zoccolo (the lower part of wall).
The white middle background to the wall had painted square panels of yellow and red, the upper wall was white with red panels.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway in south wall of middle room (9), leading into another small room, room (8).
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Room (8), looking towards east wall in rear room.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to triclinium (7), the west room on south side.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of triclinium (7) on south side of atrium.
The zoccolo was black, and in the central panel were painted plants with geometric patterns on either side of it.
The middle area of the wall was painted red with a painted central aedicule which was separated from the side panels by narrow painted compartments. The colour of the upper area of the wall was not distinguishable.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Atrium (2), looking east to entrance doorway.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Cistern mouth, in atrium (2).
VI.11.19 Pompeii. W.1555. Cistern mouth in atrium (2).
Looking towards the north-east corner of VI.15, and walls of VI.15.19/20.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Site of triclinium (6) and oecus (5), on north side of atrium.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium (6) in north-west corner.
Looking towards west wall, on left, and north wall, on right, with remains of painted plaster.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. December 2007. Rooms against north wall, with oecus (5) in centre, and site of stairs in room on right.
Looking north-east across atrium (2) towards room with stairs to upper floor and doorway in room (4) from VI.11.20.
Tower X can be seen in the background.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 028.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. W.1556.
Tower X can be seen in the background.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.11.19 Pompeii. Late 19th Century, Edizione Esposito. Pompei, l’ ultima scavi. Photo showing upper levels of the north end of VI.15. being excavated.
In the centre on the right, the north end of VI.11 can be seen. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.11.19/20 Pompeii, on left. July 2008.
Looking south-west from Tower X, across north end of VI.11 and VI.9 towards Sorrentine Peninsula. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
Extracts from Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno
Primo, 1843.
(Note: “Nona casa” (Ninth house) is part of Avellino’s description, and not a numbered location.)
See Bullettino Archeologico Napoletano, Anno Primo, 1843, Napoli: Tipografia Tramater, No. X, 1 Giugno 1843, p. 74.
