VI.14.37 Pompeii. Domus, and Officina lignaria of Potitus.

Excavated 1877.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking north along east side of Vicolo dei Vettii towards entrance doorway, in centre.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. October 2017.

Looking south along east side of Vicolo dei Vettii towards junction with Via della Fortuna, on right.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking north-east towards entrance doorway and front façade.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

Wall between VI.14.37 and VI.14.38 on Vicolo dei Vettii, December 2007.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking east into entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to Della Corte, this was a modest house furnished with an upper floor, from which space for the Bar of Salvius had been taken originally.

Probably the upper floor was used for living in, and the lower floor was occupied by the workshop.

The paintings that adorned the right pilaster of the entrance, showed the industry that was carried on here.

Mercury, with purse and caduceus, and a carpenter sawing a beam with the help of a lad.

On a seal/signet found here was –

       Potiti

Popp. Sabini 

       (P.P.S)               [CIL X 8058, 71]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.83, S.75)

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

Potiti

Popp(aei) Sabini

P(otiti) P(oppaei) S(abini)      [CIL X 8058, 71]

VI.14.37 Pompeii. December 2007.To right of entrance (south side), Frohlich says there were two wall paintings.

On the left-hand side of the right wall was a picture of two men, at either end of a large saw, cutting a beam.

On the right-hand side of the right wall, the picture was of Mercury. 

See Fröhlich, T., 1991, Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten.  Mainz: von Zabern.  (F42: p.324).

VI.14.37 Pompeii. October 2017. Detail of right (south) side of entrance doorway.

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VI.14.37 Pompeii. December 2007. Wall to the left of entrance.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. October 2017. Detail of left (north) side of entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across atrium.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking across atrium towards east wall, from entrance doorway.

VI.14.37 Pompeii. According to Presuhn, this scratched inscription was found on a white painted wall in the atrium.

CHADIUS VENTRIO

EQUES NATUS ROMANUS INTER

BETA ET BRASSICA

Which he translates as:

Chadius Ventrio, Roman knight born between cabbage and beets

See Presuhn E., 1878. Pompeji: Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1878. Leipzig: Weigel. (Abtheilung V, Plate III, p. 5).

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this reads as

G(aius!) Hadius Ventrio

eques natus Romanus inter

beta(m) et brassica(m)      [CIL IV 4533]