VII.4.49 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1847. (Strada della Fortuna 13).

VII.4.49 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking south from Via della Fortuna towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking south.

According to Fiorelli, this shop would have had a household niche for worshipping the gods, stairs to an upper floor.

Also found in this shop was a painting of a cuttlefish and a red mullet.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.92).

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010. East wall with niche. The staircase to the upper floor used to be against this wall.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. December 2018.

East wall with niche set above the stairs. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall with niche set above the stairs.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche in east wall. According to Boyce, its inside was coated with white stucco.

It was called by Fiorelli la nicchia de’ Penati.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 66)

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010.

Looking towards south wall with a bricked-up doorway in the south-west corner, originally leading to a rear room of VII.4.48.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall, south-west corner and west wall.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. c.1840’s. Painting/sketch by James William Wild showing a wall in a shop, described by him as –

“the room is low and broad, ‘a to a’ are holes for joists for the ceiling. 13ft wide, side of chamber.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.3998-1938.

Note: the drawing in the centre of the high red zoccolo would appear to be of two fish, the upper one being a cuttlefish.

This would correspond with Fiorelli's description of a painting of a cuttlefish and a red mullet.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall, looking west along Via della Fortuna.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall, looking west along Via della Fortuna.

Graffito found painted on the pilaster between VII.4.49 and 50 –

[…]  Aqutium  […]

d(uum)v(irum)  v(irum)  [b(onum) [...]       [CIL IV 2]

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p. 357 & Tav. XXIXc)

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de)

Also found in June 1833, outside VII.4.49 was –

M(arcum)  Cerrinium     [CIL IV 288]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi.  (p. 148)