VI.17.31 Pompeii. Dwelling with shop. Excavated from 1760.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking
west to entrance doorway on Via Consolare. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking west to entrance doorway on Via
Consolare. The large room at the rear is part of VI.17.32-36. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking west
to entrance doorway on Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking west to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
According to
Fiorelli –
“Una taberna
attigua all’indicato edifizio, faceva parte del caseggiato che fa seguito. Ha
il podio per la vendita, la bocca della cisterna, la scaletta dell’ammezzato, e
nel fondo due celle per gli avventori.”
See Fiorelli, G.
(1875). Descrizione, (p.434)
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.159)
(translation –
"A bar/shop adjacent to the designated building,
which was part of the house that followed.
It had a sales podium/bench, a cistern-mouth, the stairs
up to the mezzanine, and at the rear two rooms for the customers. "
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway, looking south-west.
VI.17.31 Pompeii.
September 2004. Entrance doorway.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2018.
Entrance doorway and
south wall. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021.
South wall of shop with stone staircase in south-west
corner, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking towards south wall with stone staircase in
south-west corner of shop, in centre. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of shop with remains of stone staircase in south-west corner, on right.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021. South-west corner of shop
with stone staircase. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking south-west
to sales podium/counter bench faced with marble slabs. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Sales podium/counter bench faced with marble slabs.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Rear rooms on west side.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking across shop-room towards rear room on south-west
side.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Room in south-west corner.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking across
shop-room towards rear room on north-west side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of shop.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Cistern mouth near north wall of shop.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Threshold or sill, with grooves for closing the shutters.
VI.17.31 Pompeii. Found on 12 July 1760. Painting of the three graces.
This was found in VI Ins Occ. and may have been from one of VI.17.31-36.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9231.
See Pagano, M.
and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle
provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di
Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi, p. 35.
See Antichità di Ercolano: Tomo
Terzo: Le Pitture 3, 1762, p. 57-61, pl. 11.
According to Mattusch, this may be from VI.17.west: 31?
See Mattusch C., 2008. Pompeii and the Roman Villa. Thames and Hudson, p. 243.