VII.3.10 Pompeii, on right, with VII.13.12/11, left of centre. December 2018.
Looking south to entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south across shop.
According to Helbig, on the outside wall between VII.3.11 and VII.3.10, on the left, there was a faint trace of a painted Lar with a situla.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (no: 93)
VII.3.10
Pompeii. December 2018. Niche set into east wall. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
VII.3.10 Pompeii. December 2018. Niche in east
wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.10
Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail
of niche in east wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
According to Boyce, the inside walls of this arched niche were coated in red stucco.
Fiorelli called
it la nicchia dei Penati.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p. 64, no.262)
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 86)
Four lava paving slabs are laying on the ground to the left.