VI.13.10 Pompeii. Casa di Claudius Eulogus.

Linked to VI.13.11. Excavated 1874.

VI.13.10 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west towards entrance doorway.

VI.13.10 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

VI.13.10 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west from entrance corridor across atrium and impluvium.

According to Garcia y Garcia, at the head of the impluvium was a masonry table with an arch below.

This suffered damage to its top, when the bomb fell on the area of the house at VI.13.9, in 1943.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.87 and figs 186 and 187)

Fig 187 shows the table, photographed by Tatiana Warscher after the war.

It appears to have suffered a further loss and is now no longer there!

VI.13.10 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking west across impluvium in atrium towards the masonry table support.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1786a.

According to PPM –

“The impluvium was also accompanied by a marble table resting on a masonry support decorated with mosaics and shells on the front face and painted on the side ones with plants and fruits.”

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. V. (5). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 175.

VI.13.10 Pompeii. July 2008.

North-west corner of atrium, north wall with two downpipes. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.