VII.3.13 Pompeii. Casa del
doppio Larario.
Linked to VII .3.11, VII .3.12, VII .3.14,
VII.3.15 and VII.3.17.
Excavated 1837, 1843, 1849 and
1869. (Strada della Fortuna 27).
VII.3.13 Pompeii, centre left. December 2018.
Looking south across Via della Fortuna towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking east across marble podium at entrance doorway. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Wide shop entrance with marble podium.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking south-east from Via della Fortuna. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. October 2020. Looking south from Via della Fortuna. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking south from Via della Fortuna. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards west wall with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. May 2006. Niche in west wall near entrance.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Niche set into west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking south along the west wall. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. September 2021. Remaining structure near
west wall, looking south. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. September 2021.
Detail of structure near west wall, looking south. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking south from tablinum to garden area.
VII.3.13/14 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north towards double lararium on east side of garden area.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 609.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2004. Double lararium on east side of garden area.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. Lararium on north wall of garden.
DAIR 31.2457. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
According to Boyce, in the N. wall of the viridarium, to the left of the entrance door, a deep, square niche (0.84 square, d. 0,82, h. above the floor 1.15) is set in the wall.
Its floor projects slightly in the form of a ledge and beneath it runs a delicate cornice of modelled and painted stucco.
On the wall below the niche a rectangular panel is marked off by a moulding which runs around all four sides.
The side walls of the niche are adorned at their outer edges, each with a stucco pilaster fitted with curious capitals, one higher than the other.
In the centre of the back wall is a small aedicula facade formed by two columns (h. 0.25) which rest upon a heavy projecting ledge adorned with a cornice of stucco and support a pediment.
The back wall within the aedicula is painted in imitation of marble.
In this miniature shrine must have stood a statuette.
On the right-side wall of the niche is a large wreath (diam. 0.70) of laurel and within it coils a serpent, all done in stucco relief.
Around the top of the three inside walls of the niche runs another stucco cornice.
In the floor is a rectangular depression for offerings.
This shrine was called the "Double Lararium", because above the niche we have described there is another, similar to it in shape and size.
But in this upper niche no traces of a cult were found and, in the absence of any real parallels to such a double shrine, it is simpler to regard the upper niche as a place of storage, comparable, perhaps, to the niches in the bases of the aediculae of the houses of Obellius Firmus and the Principe di Napoli (Nos. 67, 214).
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14, p. 64, no. 266, pl. 32,1.
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.192, p. 280)
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Double lararium.
VII.3.13 Pompeii.
December 2005. Double Lararium, upper lararium.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Double Lararium, lower lararium with remains of stucco.
VII.3.13 Pompeii, but shown as VII.3.14 on photo. Pre-1937-39.
Drawing of stucco serpent set into a wreath of laurel (diam. 0.70) found on the east wall of the lower lararium.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.
Warsher collection
no. 510.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici. VI. (6). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 869.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Base of double lararium.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-west across garden area.
South side. Large triclinium and passage to kitchen & latrine.
West side of garden area. Doorways to two cubicula & passage room, leading to VII.3.11
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west towards two cubicula.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorways to two cubicula and passage room. Looking west.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to passage room, leading to VII.3.11
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west towards corridor to atrium, and west wall of tablinum.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking across tablinum to west wall, and to corridor between garden and atrium.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009.
South side of garden area. Large triclinium, (on left), doorway to kitchen & latrine, and doorway to cubiculum.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of large triclinium. Looking towards remaining west wall of triclinium.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1843, of painting seen on west wall of triclinium, showing Atalanta and Meleager.
This painting was not cut and detached from the wall, and now this drawing is the only documentation of it.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 557 B.
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See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (1162)
VII.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west corner of garden area. Passage to kitchen, and two cubicula.
In the kitchen, there was a lararium painting, not conserved, height 0.59m, width 2.07m.
The genius poured a libation on an altar and on each side stood a Lar with rhyton and situla.
In the lower zone were the two serpents confronted at an altar.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14, p. 64, no. 267.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. December 2004. Cubiculum.
Basalt slab with a dedication from the sacred banquet of Psammetico II, sovereign of twenty sixth dynasty of Egypt.
It was reused as a threshold to the triclinium.
Fiorelli states that this was found in the triclinium of VII.3.11 which is linked to VII.3.13.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.86).
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum where it is shown as being found in the Casa del Doppio Larario.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. Part of the dedication on the sacred banquet of Psammetico II. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. Part of the dedication on the sacred banquet of Psammetico II. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
VII.3.13 Pompeii. Part of the dedication on the sacred banquet of Psammetico II. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.