VI.2.22 Pompeii. House of M.
Pupius or Casa di Apollo or Casa delle Danzatrici.
Linked to VI.2.15.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking west along north wall of atrium, towards a cubiculum in its north-west corner, in centre.
In the atrium, opposite the entrance corridor instead of the usual tablinum, was a corridor leading to the peristyle area.
The tablinum was on its left.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration on west wall of cubiculum, in north-west corner of atrium.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration on north wall of cubiculum, in north-west corner of atrium.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005.
Floor of cubiculum, in north-west corner of atrium, decorated with scattered tiles of coloured marble and limestone.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking towards
north wall of atrium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Remaining painted wall decoration from north wall of atrium.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration. North wall of atrium.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south towards south wall of atrium. Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south towards south wall of tablinum, in centre.
On the right, can be seen the south wall of the east portico of the peristyle.
Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Ciceron Lesueur showing the south wall of the house.
On the left would be the entrance and cubiculum, followed by
detailed walls of the atrium, tablinum, east portico and peristyle, on right.
See Lesueur, Jean-Baptiste Ciceron. Voyage en Italie de Jean-Baptiste Ciceron Lesueur (1794-1883), pl. 11.
See Book on INHA reference INHA NUM PC 15469 (04) « Licence Ouverte / Open Licence » Etalab
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking west
from atrium towards steps to tablinum.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October
2017. Looking south along steps from tablinum down to atrium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22
Pompeii. October
2017. Looking east down steps from tablinum to atrium.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Painted wall decoration on south wall of tablinum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration on south wall of tablinum.
According to Helbig, a wall painting of Meleager and Atalanta was found in the tablinum.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1164)
Schefold shows a black-and-white photo of the painting of Meleager and Atalanta on picture 169,3.
See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (p,167 and picture 169,3)
VI.2.22 Pompeii. October 2022.
Wall painting from centre of south wall of tablinum, Meleager and Atalanta, lovers resting after the hunt of the Calydonian boar.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. 1868 reproduction of the wall painting of Meleager and Atalanta which was found in the centre of the south wall of the tablinum.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1164, taf. XV.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking east from peristyle, with a cubiculum on the left, through corridor to atrium, with tablinum on the right.
Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Doorway to cubiculum in north-east corner of peristyle area.
VI.2.22 Pompeii, c.1930.
Looking
across flooring of oblong pieces of coloured limestone in north-east corner of
peristyle.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.30 & Pl.4,
tav.3).
VI.2.22 Pompeii, c.1930. Looking towards north-east corner of peristyle.
DAIR 41.729. Photo ©
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
See Pernice, E. 1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken:
Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, (taf.
39,4).
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking south-west across peristyle, from corner of north-east portico near doorway to cubiculum.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Pseudo-peristyle, looking south-west towards entrance to triclinium.
VI.2.22/15 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards the north-west side of the pseudo-peristyle
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1196.
VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2011. Looking south from east portico of the peristyle.