VI.15.9 Pompeii. Casa del Compluvium or Casa del Doppio Impluvio.

Excavated 1896. Atrium gallery reconstructed 1976.

In Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, January 1897, plan on p.14, this house was numbered as VI.15.10.

It was renumbered in NdS, May 1897, p.198 as VI.15.9.  See Note on Region VI, Insula 15 plan for information.

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VI.15.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. North side of entrance corridor.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking west from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking west from entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii, May 2015. Looking west towards atrium from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking west along entrance corridor or fauces.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking west along flooring in entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Looking west towards flooring in entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Detail of flooring in entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Detail of flooring in entrance corridor.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii, May 2015. Looking along north wall of entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. September 2004. North wall of entrance corridor.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche on north side of entrance corridor.

According to Giacobello, to the right of the niche was graffiti –

QUIS QUIS AMAT PEREAT    [CIL IV 4659]

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.231).

VI.15.9 Pompeii. December 2018.

North wall of entrance corridor with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche on north wall of entrance corridor.

According to Boyce, in the north wall of the fauces is a shallow arched niche.

Its inside walls are coated with whitish unpainted stucco.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.55, no.216)

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of entrance corridor.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Entrance corridor, looking west to atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. July 2017. Puteal on west side of impluvium in atrium.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance corridor, looking west to atrium.

According to Richardson, this tiny atrium house had a very efficient design.

The atrium is entered by short fauces flanked by cubicula with windows to the street.

The atrium is almost square, Tetrastyle with columns of naked brick that supported a second floor.

The second floor was a gallery lit by large rectangular windows into the compluvium well.

It was accessible by a small staircase against the north wall of the atrium.

Although it must have made the atrium rather dark, it made living space available over the atrium, as well as over the cubicula at the front of the house.

On the far side of the atrium, opened an ample triclinium and the service area.

This service area in the south-west corner of the house was lit by a second light-well and had a second storey of its own, possibly just a loft for storage.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, 38-39, 62-64.

See Richardson, L., 1988. Pompeii: An Architectural History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. (p.345-6)

(Note – the staircase is actually against the south wall of the atrium)

VI.15.9 Pompeii, May 2015. Looking south-west across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across impluvium in atrium.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across impluvium in atrium.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking south-east across atrium. Brick columns around impluvium supporting upper floor.

VI.15.9 Pompeii, May 2015. Looking south across atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.15.9 Pompeii, May 2015. Looking towards south wall with staircase to upper floor reconstruction. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south to upper floor reconstruction.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009.

South wall of atrium, in south-east corner, with reconstructed modern staircase.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking south-west across atrium. Brick columns around impluvium, supporting upper floor.

VI.15.9 Pompeii, May 2015. Looking towards west side of atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VI.15.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west along north side of atrium towards triclinium with window.

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