VI.10.1 Pompeii. Caupona. Osteria della Via di Mercurio.

Excavated 1827 and 1831. Rear entrance at VI.10.19.

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VI.10.1 Pompeii. March 2009.

Doorway to rear room on north side of bar-room, and other entrance at VI.10.19.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009. Fresco on west wall of rear room, on north side of doorway.

Two men in tunics and wearing shoes sit at a table. 

A man in a blue tunic sits on a bench and a man in a brown tunic leans over him. 

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1504; p369).

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021.

Fresco from west wall of rear room on north side of doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on west wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003.

Detail from fresco on west wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking east into rear room from entrance doorway, with doorway at VI.10.19, in centre.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards north-east corner of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Frescoes on north wall at east end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail of fresco on north wall at east end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009.

Fresco on north wall of rear room. Remains of painting of cart delivering wine, the mules are resting unharnessed.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on north wall of rear room. 

Remains of painting of cart delivering wine, the mules are resting unharnessed. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. Painting of wine cart by Giuseppe Marsigli made 18th January 1828.

The (later) note on this painting says

  VI.X.1

  Oecus E of sales area

  N Wall immediately

  E of N doorway

  Helbig 1487 RPGR 248h

According to the ICCD scheda: L'acquerello raffigura la vignetta dipinta sulla pereta N dell'ambiente b della Caupona della Via di Mercurio a Pompei (VI 10, 1), rimasta in situ e non più leggibile.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 360.

Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. 1827. North wall of rear room, drawing of fresco of cart delivering wine, with the mules resting un-harnessed. 

According to RMB there were two separate paintings of a wine cart.

See Real Museo Borbonico IV (1827), Notizie degli Scavi p. 2, Tav. A.

A second painting of the same subject was also found on the east wall of front room on the south side of the doorway to rear room. 

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.228, ambiente ‘c’).

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. c.1830. North wall. Drawing by Gell of cart delivering wine which he attributes to the north wall.

See Gell, W. Sketchbook of Pompeii, c.1830.

See book from Van Der Poel Campanian Collection on Getty website http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m16b425

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail of fresco on north wall at east end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009. Fresco on north wall of rear room. A soldier with spear in his left hand holds out his cup to a slave. 

“Da fridam pusillum” (CIL IV 1291) has been inscribed on the picture.

According to Cooley, this graffiti has been written above the people’s head, as if they are speaking.

She says this showed a soldier being served wine by a slave and he was saying “Give a drop of cold”.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.162, CIL IV 1291)

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003.

Fresco on north wall of rear room. A soldier with spear in his left hand holds out his cup to a slave. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii but shown as VII.15.8/5 on photo. Pre-1937-39. Fresco on north wall of rear room.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 967.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Detail from fresco on north wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards east wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Looking towards east wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail of fresco from east wall at north end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009. Fresco on east wall of rear room. 

Remains of painting showing human feet and shins of the man. 

A nineteenth century copy of the painting showed a man and a naked woman drinking whilst balancing on a tightrope.

According to Beard, the tightrope may have been a figment of the nineteenth century artist’s imagination.

See Beard, M., 2008. Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town. London: Profile Books. (p. 231/2, Pl. 11).

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking towards south wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Fresco on south wall at east end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail from fresco at east end of south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Fresco on south wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail from fresco on south wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018.

Fresco from east end of south wall of rear room, showing men gambling. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009.

Fresco from east end of south wall of rear room. Painting of men gambling.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003.

Fresco from east end of south wall of rear room. Painting of men gambling. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Fresco from east end of south wall of rear room.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 969.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. W.149. Fresco from south wall of rear room.

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

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003.

Detail of table from fresco near east end of south wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Fresco on south wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail from fresco on south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail from fresco in centre of south wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009. Fresco on south wall of rear room. 

A man in a yellow tunic and blue pallium (cloak) holds a cup with both hands. 

A man in brown tunic is walking across with a jug. 

According to Helbig, scratched above one man is ADde CAliceM SetinUM and above the other IIAVI (possibly HAVE) (CIL IV 1292). 

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1504; p369).

According to Cooley, graffiti was written in the picture above people’s heads, as if they were speaking.

She says this showed a man in a toga holding out his cup for a refill and saying “Another cup of Setinian (wine)”

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.162, CIL IV 1292)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) CIL IV 1292 read as –

Adde Calicem Setinum // Eavi       [CIL IV 1292]

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003.

Detail from fresco in centre of south wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Fresco on south wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Detail from fresco on south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018.

Fresco on south wall of rear room showing people at a table with sausages, onions and other food hanging above them.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009.

Fresco on south wall of rear room. People at a table with sausages, onions and other food hanging above them.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on south wall of rear room. 

Detail of people at a table with sausages, onions and other food hanging above them. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on south wall of rear room showing detail of table. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Fresco from south wall of rear room.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 968.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. W.150. Fresco from south wall of rear room.

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

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii.

Drawing of fresco on south wall of rear room. People at a table with sausages, onions and other food hanging above them.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. Stereoview by R. Rive of fresco from south wall of rear room, c.1860-1870s. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021. Fresco on south wall of rear room at west end.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021.

Detail from fresco at west end of south wall of rear room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. South wall at west end of rear room, with remains of fresco. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of fresco at west end of south wall of rear room.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2003. Remains of fresco at west end of south wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. Frescoes from east end of south wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. May 2004. Frescoes from east end of south wall, of rear room on north side of bar-room.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. Two frescoes near east end of south wall, of rear room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. 1959.

Frescoes near east end of south wall, of rear room on north side of bar-room. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. Two frescoes from south wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. 1959. Frescoes in centre of south wall of rear room. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. South wall of rear room, at west end, with frescoes. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. September 2005. Frescoes on south wall of rear room, at west end.

According to Garcia y Garcia, the 1943 bombing was the cause of the decay and loss to the paintings on the south wall.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.80).

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. December 2018. Two frescoes at west end of south wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.10.1/19 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking west in rear room towards doorway into bar-room.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.10.1 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking west from doorway from rear room across bar-room towards Via di Mercurio.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

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