VII.3.25 Pompeii. Dwelling house.

Linked to VII.3.24. Excavated 1843 and 1868.

VII.3.25 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

VII.3.25 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north from entrance towards atrium and impluvium.

VII.3.25 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Puteal.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 762.

VII.3.25 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Puteal.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 762.

VII.3.25 Pompeii. Oecus. 1867 drawing by L. Schulz of a sacred landscape.

The drawing portrays a scene of offering by maenads to Dionysus whose statue is seen inside the temple.

Kuivalainen comments –

This is a sacral landscape with a cult image depicting Bacchus, as attested by the various thyrsi, cantharus, and kraters, and the offering followers: a maenad and a small satyr (Comus?). The herms, the one in front Priapic, also suit his cult well. Customarily for sacral landscapes, the shrine is depicted next to a leafy tree.

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (F33, p.186).