VI.14.43 Pompeii. Casa degli Scienziati or Casa della fontana di musaico.

Excavated 1839 and 1845.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking south towards entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking south along front façade towards entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. Detail of front facade on north side of entrance doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway and wall to left (north) of entrance on Vicolo dei Vettii.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking east to wall on north side of doorway.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1426.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking east through entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking north to entrance doorway on Vicolo dei Vettii.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking north to entrance doorway from south side on Vicolo dei Vettii.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1966. Looking north to entrance doorway on Vicolo dei Vettii. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1964. Entrance doorway. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway and wall to right of entrance on Vicolo dei Vettii.

By the entrance was a painting of Fortuna with Mercury. 

See Fröhlich: Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten, F43, page 324.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1841, p.113.

According to Boyce, Mercury and Fortuna were found painted on the pilasters at the entrance.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.111, no.13)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. May 2015. North (left) wall of entrance fauces. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2006. Remains of wall plaster on inside north (left-hand) side of entrance.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. Upper south (right) wall of entrance fauces.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. South (right) wall of entrance fauces.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. May 2015. South (right) wall of entrance fauces. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2006.

Remains of wall plaster on inside right-hand side of entrance vestibule.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1964.

Remains of wall plaster on inside right-hand side of entrance vestibule. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii.

Graffiti from wall next to main entrance of the house. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 4685. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

According to the information description card in Naples Museum –

Plaster fragment with scratched letters, reading –

“Here and now I copulated with a girl who is beautiful go look at and praised by many, but inside she was nothing but filth”.

(“Qui e ora ho scopato una ragazza bella d’aspetto, da molti lodata, ma dentro era soltanto fango”.)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. Detail of graffiti from wall next to main entrance.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 4685. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. September 2019. Looking east across atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. June 2019.

Room 1, looking east across atrium and tablinum, across pseudo-peristyle towards mosaic fountain in background.

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2018. Room 1, looking east across atrium from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. October 2017. Room 1, looking east across atrium from entrance corridor.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2017. Room 1, looking east across atrium from entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. May 2015.

Room 1, looking east across atrium and tablinum, pseudoperistyle towards mosaic fountain in background. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2004.

Room 1, looking east across atrium and tablinum, pseudoperistyle and mosaic fountain in background.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. July 2012. Room 1, looking east across impluvium in atrium, towards tablinum, and garden area.

Photo courtesy of John Vanko. His father took the identical photo in February 1952, see below.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. February 1952. Room 1, looking east across impluvium in atrium, towards tablinum, and garden area.

Photo courtesy of John Vanko. His father took this photo in 1952, identical to the one above.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. October 2001.

Room 1, looking east across impluvium in atrium, towards tablinum, and garden area. Photo courtesy of Peter Woods.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. February 1988.

Looking east across atrium towards garden area. Photo by Joachime Méric courtesy of Jean-Jacques Méric.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1968.

Room 1, looking east across impluvium in atrium, towards tablinum, and garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.14.43, Pompeii. August 1965.

Room 1, looking east across atrium towards peristyle. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.14.43, Pompeii. November 1961. Room 1, looking east across atrium towards peristyle. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 22nd July 1961. Room 1, looking east across atrium towards peristyle. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. June 2019. Room 1, looking east across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 1, looking east across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 1, impluvium in atrium, marble table and marble covered brick base or fountain.

According to Jashemski, unique so far at Pompeii, is the tiny mosaic fountain (about 0.50m high) in the atrium.

It had been built on the east edge of the impluvium, facing the entrance during the last years of the city.

According to Sear, the front and bottom of the inside walls were lined with marble.

Above this there was a “line of shells and then a zone of mosaic, in white, yellow, and blue, and above the mosaic another line of shells”. 

The head of the niche was covered with pumice and marine deposits.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.152)

VI.14.43 Pompeii. May 2015.

Room 1, detail of marble table and marble covered brick base or fountain. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, looking west across atrium, towards front entrance.

According to Breton, found on the left of the atrium on a pilaster that separated two cubicula, was CIL IV 1520.

This would be on the right of this photo.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. Description by Niccolini of CIL IV 1520.

See Niccolini F, 1896. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Quarto: Parte 1. Napoli. (p.8, Appendice, Nuovi Scavi dal 1874 a tutto il 1882)

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

Candida me docuit nigras

odisse puellas odero si potero sed non invitus

amabo

scipsit(!) Venus fisica Pompeiana      [CIL IV 1520]

According to Cooley, CIL IV 1520 translated as –

Blondie has taught me to hate dark girls.

I shall hate them, if I can, but I wouldn’t mind loving them.

Pompeian Venus Fisica wrote this.       [CIL IV 1520]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge.

According to Varone, this was detached from the wall and sent to Naples Archaeological Museum, it translated as –

“A fair girl taught me to scorn dark ones, I will scorn them if I can: if not…. I will reluctantly love them”   [CIL IV 1520]

This was the same couplet, but with a different division of lines, that was also found under an image of Priapus, on the left of the doorway at I.11.11.

[CIL IV 9847 painted in red]

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.56-57).

VI.14.43 Pompeii.

Fragment of plaster from atrium with scratched graffiti, see above and below.

On display in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 4665.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. Information card from Naples Archaeological Museum.

Fragment of plaster from atrium with scratched graffiti, see above and below.

On display in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 4665.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, four-legged pink marble table or cartibulum, near the impluvium in atrium.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, four-legged pink marble table or cartibulum, near the impluvium in atrium.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2007.  Room 1, remains of lead pipe and valve behind impluvium in atrium.

VI.14.43 Pompeii. 1964. 

Room 1, remains of lead pipe and valve behind impluvium in atrium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.14.43 Pompeii. December 2004. Room 1, looking north towards table next to impluvium in atrium.   

VI.14.43 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 1, looking north-east towards table next to impluvium in atrium.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 430.

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