VII.4.23 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1822, 1833 and 1868.

VII.4.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance.

The doorway in the rear wall of this shop-room would have connected to the rear rooms of VII.4.24/25.

VII.4.23 Pompeii. March 2009. Pillar between VII.4.23 and VII.4.24.

VII.4.23 Pompeii. W.18.

Drawing of Mercury, Venus and statue of Priapus, found painted on the external pilaster between numbers 23 and 24.

See Real Museo Borbonico, 1, tav.32.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (20)

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

Found painted in red and black in November 1821 on this pilaster was –

M(arcum)  Cerrinium  aed(ilem)  d(ignum)  r(ei)  p(ublicae)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)     [CIL IV 556]

and underneath it was –

Marcellum

aed(ilem) rog(at)     [CIL IV 557]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p. 123)

VII.4.22/23 Pompeii. Pre 1827. Drawing of painting of Mars and Venus.

According to Real Museo Borbonico –

“Questo dipinto per venusta e per grazia sopra ogni altro singolare adornava la stanza accanto alla porta della casa di un pompeiano, che abitava dirimpetto l’ingresso laterale dell’edificio volgarmente detto Panteon.”

(“This painting adorned the room next to the door of a Pompeian, who lived opposite the side entrance of a building commonly called the Pantheon.”). [VII.9.19/7/8]

See Real Museo Borbonico Vol. III, 1827, Tav. XXXVI.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, no. 327.

(Note: this could have been found in either VII.4.21, 22 or 23).

Via degli Augustali. September 2005. Looking west past from VII.4.23 and VII.4.24, on right.