VI.8.5 Pompeii. Casa del Poeta Tragico or House of the Tragic Poet.

Excavated 1824. Linked to VI.8.3.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 9, cubiculum.

According to Bianco in Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, when found this cubiculum was beautifully decorated.

Today the decoration has been totally lost.

The lower walls would have had a dark red dado (zoccolo).

The walls were divided into red and yellow panels, the middle panel on each wall was yellow.

In the central yellow panel were mythological paintings.

Apollo and Daphne on the north wall.

Europa on the Bull on the south wall.

Phryxus and Helle on the west wall.

On the east wall was the doorway to the atrium.

On high was a frieze showing Amazons, this was interrupted in the centre of the west wall with a painting of Venus Pompeiana.

See Bianco, A. Il fregio delle Amazzoni nella Casa del Poeta Tragico a Pompei: Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, XVIII, 2007, Roma: L’erma di Bretschneider, p.54-66 with photos.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.173, room numbered as cubiculum 6a).

VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, east wall of cubiculum and south-east corner.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, south wall of cubiculum.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 9, south wall of cubiculum. In the central yellow panel would have been a painting of Europa on the Bull.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. Painting by Gottlieb Bindesbøll (1800-1856) of south wall in Room 9, cubiculum.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, south wall of cubiculum. Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli, showing Europa on the Bull, from the central yellow panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 265.

The image on the ICCD database is reversed from those shown in two drawings by Zahn.

The three signatures are also reversed when compared with ADS 264 (below).

Consequently we have flipped this painting so that the subject aligns with the drawings of Zahn and the signatures align with ADS 264.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. c.1828. Room 9, drawing by Zahn of Europa and the Bull, the central painting on south wall.

See Zahn W. Neu entdeckte Wandgemälde in Pompeji gezeichnet von W. Zahn [ca. 1828], taf. 10.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. c.1828. Room 9, drawing by Zahn of south wall, on left, and west wall, on right.

See Zahn W. Neu entdeckte Wandgemälde in Pompeji gezeichnet von W. Zahn [ca. 1828], taf. 9.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. c.1828. Room 9, drawing by Zahn of Phryxus and Helle, the central painting on west wall.

See Zahn W. Neu entdeckte Wandgemälde in Pompeji gezeichnet von W. Zahn [ca. 1828], taf. 11.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 9, west wall of cubiculum. In the central yellow panel would have been a wall painting of Phryxus and Helle.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. c.1828. Room 9, looking towards west wall of cubiculum with painting of Phryxus and Helle in the centre.

See Raoul Rochette et Bouchet J., 1828. Choix d'Edifices Inédits : Maison du Poète Tragique. Paris, pl 7. (Chambre 18 on their plan.)

VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, west wall of cubiculum. Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli, showing Phryxus and Helle from the central yellow panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 264.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 9, north wall of cubiculum. In the central yellow panel would have been a painting of Apollo and Daphne.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, north-east corner and east wall of cubiculum with doorway to atrium.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. c.1860. Room 9, drawing from Dyer of west wall of cubiculum.

See Dyer, T., 1867. Pompeii: its history. Buildings and antiquities. London: Bell & Dandy, p. 377.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, 1841 painting by Carl Løffler of west wall of cubiculum.

Photo courtesy Thorvaldsens Museum Copenhagen, inventory number D1816. Use Public Domain CC0.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. c.1828. Room 9, west wall of cubiculum with painting of Venus Pompeiana in the centre of the top frieze with battle scenes on either side.

See Raoul Rochette et Bouchet J., 1828. Choix d'Edifices Inédits : Maison du Poète Tragique. Paris, pl 7. (Chambre 18).

VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found on the left side of the Venus Pompeiana (on a long wall).

These paintings were preserved on two walls (south and west) and only part on a third and were separated on the south and west wall by paintings of a cupid and Venus Pompeiana.

They were left in situ, and now are totally faded and lost, the only record being these paintings by an anonymous painter.

It is thought they were probably made by Giuseppe Marsigli, who painted in this house at the time they were discovered.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (1250).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 274a.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found on the left side of the Venus Pompeiana.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory numbers ADS 275 and ADS 276.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found on the left side of the Venus Pompeiana.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 276.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found on the left side of the Venus Pompeiana.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 277.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum.

Painting of Venus Pompeiana with cupid.

Then follows, to the right of Venus Pompeiana and cupid (on the long side of the wall, perhaps the west wall) -

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 266.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of Venus Pompeiana.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 278.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of Venus Pompeiana.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 279 and ADS 280.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of Venus Pompeiana.

Then follows to the right of a cupid, (on the short side of the wall) –

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory numbers ADS 281.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of a cupid (on the short side of a wall).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 282.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of a cupid (on the short side of a wall).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory numbers ADS 283 and ADS 284.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of a cupid (on the short side of a wall).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 285.

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VI.8.5 Pompeii. Room 9, pencil/crayon and watercolour paintings from frieze from upper wall of cubiculum, found to the right of a cupid (on the short side of a wall).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 286.

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VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022. Looking north across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022. Impluvium, detail of border edging. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022. Looking south across impluvium in atrium towards entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.8.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, looking south across impluvium and puteal in atrium.

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