VII.4.62
Pompeii. Casa delle Forme di creta or House of the Terracotta Shapes
or House of Tullius Faustus.
Linked to VII .4.8. Excavated 1832, 1837. (Strada della
Fortuna 2).
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Bragantini, de
Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di
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1938. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, manuscript.
American Academy in Rome.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.
According to Della Corte, on 30th September 1916 a bronze finger-ring was found by a custodian in the vestibule.
Only the initials of a name were given, but Della Corte did not hesitate to attribute it to –
L. T(ullius) Fa(ustus?)
(S.90)
See Della Corte,
M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei.
Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.121)
VII.4.62 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south along west wall of fauces. (Now obscured by an electricity substation).
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Pre 1936. Atrium, looking north-west. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
The entrance doorway (fauces) is on the right, in the centre of the photo is a doorway to a cubiculum.
On the left is the doorway to the cubiculum, (with photos below from VII.4.63, etc), followed by the entrance to the stairs to the upper floor.
VII.4.62, Pompeii. c.1930. Flooring, according to Blake, showing the extent that vegetation would have been a contributing cause to the destruction of this patterned mosaics.
See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.12, ftn 7, p.81 & pl.1, tav.2)
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Photo c.1938 by Tatiana Warscher showing peristyle before the 1943 bombing destruction.
According to Garcia y Garcia, the brick pilaster was destroyed along with a good part of the south perimeter wall.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, p. 101.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Casa della Parete Nera, old watercolour postcard. In the foreground is the peristyle of VII.4.62 the Casa delle Forme di creta.
Behind the wall is the Casa della Parete Nera VII.4.59.
VII.4.62 from VII.4.63, Pompeii. May 2005.
Looking south into cubiculum towards the remains of the upper south wall, across a site of a staircase to upper floor, through window in shop at VII.4.63.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. c.1840. Cubiculum, detail from upper south
wall in a painting by James William Wild.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory
number E.4001-1938.
VII.4.62 from VII.4.63 Pompeii. July 2010. Window in south wall of VII.4.63, looking into VII.4.62. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.4.62 from VII.4.63 Pompeii. May 2005.
South-west corner of cubiculum in background, site of staircase to upper floor in foreground.
VII.4.62 from VII.4.63 Pompeii.
South-west corner of cubiculum, with recess for bed set into south wall, in centre. The west wall is on the right.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. c.1840. Painting by James William Wild of south end of west wall of vaulted cubiculum.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory
number E.3990-1938.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Undated painting by Pierre Gusman, looking towards south-west corner of vaulted cubiculum.
See Gusman P., 1924. La
Décoration Murale de Pompei. Paris : Morancé, pl. XVIII,2.
VII.4.62 from VII.4.63 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south-east into atrium, from end of stairs to upper floor.
In
the central painting, Narcissus can be recognised. (Helbig 1345).
Photo
© Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.3991-1938.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall,
DAIR 56.1221. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/4687858
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall, drawing by Giuseppe Abbate showing the decoration now lost.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 684.
Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/
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The central fresco of the rape of Hylas is now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8882. In the panel on each side is a floating female figure.
In the architectural painting of the upper zone is Dionysus leaning on a Satyr playing the lyre, with a Silenus with tympanum and a Satyr with a flute.
Either side, standing at the top of steps are two female figures with utensils for a sacrifice in their hands.
In the lower zone are panels with two flying horses, crossed thyrsi, twirls of leaves and garlands of leaves.
At the top of the wall was a stucco frieze decorated with shields separating this area of the wall from the lunette above, but it is not included in Abbate's drawing. The stucco frieze has been dated to the time of Vespasian.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici: Vol. VII. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 151-2, no. 18.
Kuivalainen
comments –
A
young almost naked Bacchus now leans on a young satyr, elsewhere the player is
an old satyr Silenus.
The
event on the top of the garland is also unusual for a thiasus.
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The
Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences
and Letters, (F15, p.171).
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall, fresco of the rape of Hylas.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8882.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall, fresco of the rape of Hylas.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8882.
See Staub Gierow M., 2000. Casa delle forme di creta (VII.4.61-63): Hauser in Pompeji Band 10, DAI. München: Hirmer, p. 100, figs. 352-3.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall. Copy of the fresco of the rape of Hylas, attributed to Giuseppe Marsigli.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 686.
Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/
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VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall. Drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, 1833, a copy of the painting of the rape of Hylas
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 685.
Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/
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VII.4.62 Pompeii. Triclinium 7, north wall, 1843 drawing of fresco of the rape of Hylas, by La Volpe.
See Real Museo Borbonico, 13, 1843, Tav. XLVI.
VII.4.62 Pompeii. Tablinum 8, cameo glass patera.
The interior of the Patera in white decoration shows a vine leaf crown tied with a sacred knot with bunches of flowers and sacred ribbons.
In the centre is a Satyr’s head. On the end of the handle is a ram’s head.
These are all symbols of Dionysus.
It was found scattered in many fragments near the room to the right of the tablinum of VII.4.59 Casa della Parete Nera and the room of the adjoining VII.4.62 Casa delle Forme di Creta.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 1843.
See Grasso F., 2008. A cameo glass patera from Pompeii.
www.academia.edu/3487214/A_cameo_glass_patera_from_Pompeii