VI.7.19 Pompeii. Casa di Inaco ed Io or House of Fabii Tyrannus and Iarinus.

Excavated 1836. Restored 1976.

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VI.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking across portico towards rooms near north wall.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006.  Detail of column capital in portico.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. W.1349. Looking north-west from rear of tablinum towards rooms on north side of peristyle.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. Painted decoration from upper west wall in north-west corner of central room on north side of peristyle.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. Looking north-east from peristyle towards rooms on north side, and small doorway with steps to upper floor.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. W.1350. Looking north-east from peristyle towards small doorway with steps to upper floor.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Staircase to upper floor.

VI.7.19 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-west across garden.

VI.7.19 Pompeii.  Card from Naples Museum – The treasure of the House of Inaco and Io.

“The silverwares found in the house of Pompeii next to the famous House of the Silverwares (Insula 7 of the Regio VI) is of 64 pieces, almost completely in optimal conservation conditions, found with pieces of cloth that separated their surfaces.

It is a complete service of the ministerium, with pieces, principally plates of different shapes divided in sets of four pieces.

The domus in which they were discovered on the 13th of October 1836, called of Inaco and Io, results to be rather modest in wall and pavement decorations, and in the quantity of recovered furnishings, except the silverware treasure”.

Silver modiolus (small cup or measure) with pattern of ivy, vines and grapes, found at VI.7.19.

Under the foot is an inscription.

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

]uthi III(librarum) V(unciarum) |(semunciae) |(scriptulorum) II VI[3] / M II       [CIL X 8071,15]

A further inscription, written in italics is illegible.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 25300.

See Guzzo, P. (A cura di), 2006. Argenti a Pompei. Milano, Electa. (p. 168-179).

Silver cantharus with cupids on beasts found at VI.7.19. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 23380.

See Guzzo, P. (A cura di), 2006. Argenti a Pompei. Milano, Electa. (p. 168-179).

Silver found at VI.7.19.  Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

Four lanceolate pattern silver formae or moulds (on the right side).

Inventory numbers 25552, 25553, 25554 and 25555.

Three of the moulds (25552, 25553, 25554) have inscriptions on them.

These give the names of Helvius Amandus and L. Herrenius Rusticus.

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

Helvi Amandi p(ondo) I(librae) s(emissem) |(unciarum) |(semunciae) III / [3] Herenni Rustici p(ondo) I(librae) s(emissem) |(unciarum) [3]II       [CIL X 8071,09a]

Helvi Amandi p(ondo) I(librae) s(emissem) |(unciarum) III / L(uci) Herenni Rustici p(ondo) I s(emissem) |(unciarum) II        [CIL X 8071,09b]

Helvi Amandi p(ondo) I(librae) s(emissem) IV(unciarum) s(emunciae) III        [CIL X 8071,09c]

Large silver mirror with a diameter of 18cm (top left). Inventory number 25718.

Two silver spoons (centre), part of a group of five. Inventory numbers 25428 and 25429.

Four small round silver moulds in the form of a truncated cone (front left). Inventory numbers 25329, 25330, 25331 and 25332.

See Guzzo, P. (A cura di), 2006. Argenti a Pompei. Milano, Electa. (p. 168-179).

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