VI.16.11 Pompeii. Shop with dwelling. Excavated 1844, 1904.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking towards entrance doorway.
On the left can be seen the remains of the threshold and base of stairs leading to upper floor.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance and north wall of shop-room.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance and north wall.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of shop.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of shop.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west across shop to corridor to rear, on left, and rear room in north-west corner, on right.
Originally, on the west wall between the corridor and the rear room was a lararium.
According to Boyce, there was a ruined niche in the west wall, coated with white stucco bordered with red stripes.
Red and green garlands were painted on the back wall of it.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, p.
58.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 58, no.222).
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west to room in north-west corner of shop and corridor to rear in south-west corner.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west to room in north-west corner of shop and corridor to rear in south-west corner.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall of shop.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall and corridor leading to rear.
According to Liselotte Eschebach, on the left, this wall used to have a base for a staircase to the upper floor against it.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.227)
According to NdS, beside the south wall at the entrance doorway to the shop was an independent staircase accessed from a step and with a lava threshold from the street. This led to the rooms above.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, p. 58.
VI.16.11 Pompeii.
May 2010. Corridor to rear.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Latrine and kitchen area of the corridor leading to rear.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to rear room in north-west corner of shop. Looking west.
According to NdS, the doorway would have had doorjambs and a threshold of wood.
The floor was made of opus signinum but was poorly preserved.
The walls were divided into large red panels, divided by yellow pilasters or fillets, with feeding birds in the middle, a flying swan, and a rectangular painting with faded representation.
The dado was red but also badly preserved. The frieze had a white background.
The remains of the white frieze were still visible upon excavation, in the height of the west wall, in which there was a window.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
p. 59.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall with window overlooking yard.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Room in north-west corner of shop, west wall with window and remains of red dado.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of rear room.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Remains of south wall of rear room, in foreground, with south wall of corridor in the background.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Corridor, looking west to site of latrine and kitchen hearth.
According to NdS, to the south of the rear room was the corridor, and at the back of the corridor was a hearth.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Down pipe in south wall of corridor, at site of latrine.
VI.16.11Pompeii. July 2008. Downpipe in south wall. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Remains of kitchen hearth and doorway to cubiculum.
According to NdS, at the western end of the corridor was a hearth with a masonry stove.
The hearth, which was empty underneath, had its upper part formed by four tiles.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Remains of kitchen hearth.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to cubiculum at end of corridor.
According to NdS, to the right of the hearth was a doorway with threshold of lava, and which at some time had wooden doorjambs.
Its walls on a white background were divided in great panels with the same usual candelabra and coloured fillets and showed in the middle a bearded male bluish mask, or a sphinx, or else a flying swan.
The frieze showed the usual arabesques and fillets and small panels that had in the centre a griffin, or a flying bird.
The floor was of cocciopesto.
The north wall was pierced by a window with windowsill of marble.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Cubiculum, looking west. Over the west wall is the rear room of VI.16.35.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking south-west from yard towards wall with remains of window opening from cubiculum. This window used to have a marble windowsill.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to yard at rear of room in north-west corner of shop. Looking north.
According to NdS, this uncovered area had a floor of cocciopesto.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of yard.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to small room on west side of yard.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010.
Doorway to small room on west side of yard. According to NdS, this small room had walls covered with rough plaster.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. South-west corner of small room.
VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking east through site of window across large rear room, towards shop and entrance on Via del Vesuvio.