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. December 2007. Small recess on the south side of the portico containing amphorae.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. East wall of small recess.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall of small recess, with window to oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Amphorae in small recess.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. April 2012.
South-east corner of portico, with doorways to oecus, recess and summer triclinium, on right. Photo courtesy of Marina Fuxa.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east through doorway
into oecus. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking towards east wall of oecus in the south-east corner of portico.
According to Sogliano in NdS, this room was either a triclinium or an oecus.
It had walls painted with decorations partitioned with the usual architectural motifs, on a white background.
The dado was purple.
He said the decoration wanted to be rich and vibrant but in reality it was bungled, heavy and vulgar.
He thought it made a sad impression as if one was in a catacomb.
Originally it would have contained three central paintings, but only two remained, as the third fell together with the south wall.
On the north wall was Perseus and Andromeda.
On the east wall, Sogliano thought the painting showed Helen and Paris in Sparta.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, January 1897, (p.36-7).
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. North-west corner of oecus with doorway to portico.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of oecus from doorway.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2019.
Looking east along north wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. June 2019. North wall and north-east corner of oecus. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of oecus. Fresco of Perseus and Andromeda.
Perseus holds the severed head of the gorgon Medusa. They are looking at the reflection of the head in the water below them.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of Perseus holding the severed head of the gorgon Medusa.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of the reflection of the head of the gorgon Medusa in the water below Perseus and Andromeda.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of Andromeda’s feet.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. 1961. Painted decoration on upper north wall of oecus. 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.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Painted detail from oecus. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Upper wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail from centre of east wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of fresco of Paris, Eros and Helen on east wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Remains of fresco of Paris, Eros and Helen on east wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of Paris.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of Helen’s arm and hand.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from east wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from east wall.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from east wall.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east into oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Decorative marble inlaid floor panel of oecus.
According to NdS, the floor was signinum and had a beautiful rectangle of coloured marble in the middle.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, March 1898, (p.126)
VI.15.8
Pompeii. c.1930. Oecus/triclinium, looking east across flooring.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p. 48 & Pl. 9, tav.3).
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2015. Decorative marble inlaid floor panel of oecus. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2019.
Looking towards east wall, south-east corner and south wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2019.
South wall of oecus at west end, from doorway. Photo
courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall of oecus
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from south wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from south wall of oecus.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. December 2007. South-west corner of oecus with doorway to portico in west wall.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. South-west corner of oecus with doorway to portico.
VI.15.8 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall of oecus with doorway to portico.