VI.16.7 Pompeii. Casa degli
Amorini Dorati or House of the Golden Cupids
or Domus Cn. Poppaei Habiti or House of Gnaeus Poppaeus Habitus.
Excavated 1903-5.
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Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015.
Room I, looking north through doorway.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway of room I, cubiculum with glass medallions of golden cupids.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room I, window overlooking north
portico on east side of doorway.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room I, detail of west side of
window.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room I, detail from east side of
window.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. East side of doorway and window of room I.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2006. West side of doorway of room I
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, looking north-west from entrance doorway.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north along
west wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room I, looking towards west wall, after conservation. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, west wall.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2006. Room I, west wall.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north across
flooring.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room I, looking towards north end with alcove for a wide bed, shown by the pattern of the flooring.
In the flooring, on the left, may be the site for another narrow bed alcove.
On the walls at the north end of the room are the sites for four glass medallions. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee, after restoration.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room I, detail from flooring. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. June 2013.
Room I, north end with sites for four glass medallions, after restoration. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, north end with sites for four glass medallions, before conservation.
According to Garcia y Garcia, the house received its name from four glass discs found in the plaster in the walls of a cubiculum.
Two of the preserved ones were incised with the figures and attributes of cupids which were then inlaid with gold leaf.
During the bombing in the night of 16th September 1943, a bomb fell in the street outside this house.
The shaking caused by the explosion led to the ruin and irreparable loss of the half-medallion from the east wall.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.96).
According to PPM
–
“Actually only the medallion to the left of the rear wall was found in situ, the others have been lost.”
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici. V. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 791.
Cubiculum
I: glass medallion showing golden cupid, now in the Archaeological Museum of
Naples. Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, the site of the glass medallion on the right of the north wall, (east end).
VI.16.7 Pompeii. From an undated rare vintage postcard.
Cubiculum I, glass medallion found on the east end (right side) of the north wall.
Photo
courtesy of Davide Peluso.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. 1908. Drawing of glass medallion found on the right end of the north wall.
The glass was incised with the figures and attributes of cupids which were then inlaid with gold leaf.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
p. 35, fig. 5.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, looking north.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. December 2019.
Room I, looking towards north wall, north-east corner and
east wall. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2006. Room I, north wall. Four glass discs decorated with gilded cupids were set into the walls of this room.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2006 Room I, upper north wall.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. December 2004. Room I, upper north wall.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Room
I, detail from upper north wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north along
east wall.
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Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. Pompeii.
2015/2016.
Cubiculum I, looking north along east wall, towards north-east
corner. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe
Ciaramella.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, detail of cornice on
east wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. June 2013. Room I, east wall, after restoration. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, detail from east
wall at south end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, east wall, before conservation.
According to Garcia y Garcia, the irreparable loss of the half-medallion from the east wall was due to the explosion from the 1943 bomb that fell in the roadway outside the house.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.96)
VI.16.7 Pompeii. 1908. Room I, drawing of half medallion found on east wall.
The glass was incised with the figures and attributes of cupids which were then inlaid with gold leaf.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908,
p. 36, fig. 6.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2006 Room I, east wall.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. December 2004 Room I, east wall.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. 1964. Room I, east wall. 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.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room I, detail from east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2016. Room I, detail from east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. June 2013. Room I, east wall, after restoration. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, floor. Looking north.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Room I, floor on west side.
VI.16.7 Pompeii. May 2010. Window from north portico into room I.
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