VI.14.21 Pompeii. Fullers shop.

Linked to atrium of VI.14.22. Excavated 1874-77.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to Della Corte, on the front of the fullonica of Vesonius (VI.14.21/22) was a graffito that read:

Proculum

aed(ilem)  Felicio

lupinipolus  rog (at)  [CIL IV 3483]

This was similar to the one from opposite (see V.1.25 [CIL IV 3423]) and led him to think it named the owner of the shop there.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.100)

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2005.  Looking west through doorway to fullonica at VI.14.22.

VI.14.21 Fullers workshop House of Balbinus, Pompeii May 1886.

Photograph courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. June 2006. Looking towards the south wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west from entrance, towards vats in south-west corner.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south to vats in south-west corner.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Vats. 

VI.14.21 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking towards vats against south wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Dolium at end of vats. 

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Left vat. 

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Centre vat. 

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Right vat. 

VI.14.21 Pompeii. June 2006. Detail of right vat. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. June 2006. Detail of right vat. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west through doorway to atrium of VI.14.22. 

VI.14.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Remains of flooring.

VI.14.21 Pompeii. Pre 1938. Fragment of flooring with white tesserae from room “r”.

DAIR 41.707. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E., 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 80, Taf. 35,4.

According to PPM –

“The floor of cocciopesto, which at the rear of the room had a decoration outlined in white tesserae, containing a phallus, some branches, two cornucopia and the inscription “SALVE” (now preserved only in taf. 35.4 of Pernice and in Fig. 68 of the Warscher), it must have been carried out before the installation of the basins/tanks.”

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. Vol. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 331).