VII.5.26 Pompeii. Shop or workshop. Dye works?

Excavated 1823.

According to Fiorelli-

VII.5.18-29. One sees a series of large shops topped with higher floors, amongst which was the doorway leading to the garden of the Men’s Baths.

They have no particularity of construction, but were found rich in objects, some of which would have fallen from the upper floors.

(Vedesi una serie di grandi botteghe gia sormontate da altro piano, tra le quali era l’adito (n.24) portante al giardino al bagno virile. Esse non hanno particolarita di costruzione, ma furon trovate ricche di oggetti, alcuni dei quali caduti dai cenacoli superiori.)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.96).

VII.5.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west to workshop (centre), on Via del Foro.

Found in September 1823, written on the pilasters to the left and right of the entrance were –

Marcellum

aed(ilem)  rog(at)     [CIL IV 524]

Pansam  aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)

et  Popidium     [CIL IV 525]

C(aium)  Calventium  II vir(um)

Sittium  Magnum  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatus)     [CIL IV 526]

M(arcum)  C(asellium)  M(arcellum)

aed(ilem)       [CIL IV 527]

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

(p. 127).

VII.5.26 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.5.26 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance, looking west.

For photographs, Fig 22 and 23 on pages 141-2 and description

See Associazione Internazionale Amici di Pompei: Quaderni di Studi Pompeiani, 1/2007.

Barattolo, A and Romaldi, F: Insula VII.5 – Una rilettura ragionata dei documenti grafici. (p.127-146)

VII.5.26 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail from west wall in north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.5.26 Pompeii. March 2009. On the rear (west) wall, there are the remains of the line of the stairs to upper floor.

VII.5.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Four large lava flat bases joined together.