VI.15.8 Pompeii. Casa del
Principe di Napoli or House of the Prince of Naples.
Linked to VI.15.7. Excavated 1896.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking towards south wall of atrium with doorway to portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. June 2019. South wall of atrium with doorway to portico. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of atrium with doorway to portico.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. West side of atrium.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. 1915.
Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani.
Looking towards tablinum on west side of atrium, with doorway to portico, on left, and to kitchen area, on right.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 139461.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall of the atrium and doorway to kitchen area, on right.
At the foot of the dividing pillar between these two rooms, in the floor of the atrium, was the mouth of the cistern.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west into kitchen.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking towards west end of kitchen. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Hearth or bench in north-west corner of kitchen.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking towards north-west corner of kitchen with hearth, and
niche above in north wall.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. Hearth or bench in north-west corner of kitchen. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of kitchen, with niche.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche in kitchen area.
According to Boyce, in the wall above the hearth is a small arched niche.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, 34.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14.(p.55, no.215)
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.183)
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North-east corner of kitchen, with latrine.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North-east corner of kitchen, above latrine.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Latrine in north-east corner of kitchen.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Latrine in kitchen area.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east across north side of kitchen towards atrium.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east across south side of kitchen towards atrium.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east along south wall towards south-east corner.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Small storeroom at west end of kitchen.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south-west across atrium towards doorway, and window in
tablinum overlooking garden. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Tablinum on west side of the atrium with window overlooking garden.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015.
Window in south wall of tablinum and through doorway, window in south wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. West wall of tablinum with doorway to cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall of tablinum.
According to NdS, this room had walls decorated with the usual architectural motifs on a white background.
The dado was black.
In one of the panels on the west wall was a painting of fish on a white background framed by a painted purple border.
This room was lit by a window from the garden and was covered with a barrel-vaulted ceiling.
On the west wall, the upper vaulted area was painted with a hippocampus among dolphins on the white background.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, January, (p. 34).
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of sea creatures on west wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of hippocampus and dolphin, sea creatures in tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of dolphins in tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted panel of fishes on west wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from west wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2019. Upper
west wall of tablinum, and north-west corner. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. North-west corner and north wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. North-west corner and north wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8, Pompeii. December 2019.
North wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of tablinum.
According to NdS, the two painted panels on the north wall had purple backgrounds.
One showed a deer fleeing to the left followed by a dog, on the left was an idol of Priapus.
The other showed a deer being attacked by a dog, also on the left perhaps was an idol of Priapus.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897,
January, (p. 34).
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted panel of hunting scene on north wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from north wall.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. Painted panel of hunting scene on north wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted panel of hunting scene on north wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of painted plant on north wall of tablinum.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015.
Looking north-east from tablinum across atrium towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.