VII.6.21 Pompeii. Shop with dwelling. Excavated 1868? 1910.
According to Garcia y Garcia Region VII, Insula VI was one of the insulae most devastated over the years since its excavation.
He calls it the “Cinderella” of Pompeii. Between the years 1759 and 1762 it was vandalised and stripped by the Bourbons, then re-interred.
Then came the slow and non-systematic uncovering again before the final destruction in September 1943.
The area was ignored and abandoned during the years following the war, which reduced the insula to a heap of bricks and masonry.
See Garcia y Garcia,
L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.102).
According
to Fiorelli,
19-22. Four
workshops, whose external pillars were of Nocera stone, they follow on from the
Cistern, and contained other more internal rooms with hearths, also the second
of them having a sales podium with three urns.
(19-22. Quattro botteghe, i cui pilastri esterni
sono di pietra nucerina, fanno seguito alla cisterna, e contengono celle piu
interne con focolari, avendo anche la seconda di esso il podio della vendita
con tre urne.)
See Pappalardo,
U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per
Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.160).
According
to NdS,
This was another shop with various rooms 80-83 equally
poorly preserved.
(Altra bottega con vari ambienti 80-83 parimenti
mal conservati.)
See Notizie degli Scavi, 1910, p.463.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. Plan based on PPM.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici:
Vol. VII. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana,
p. 182.
VII.6.21 Pompeii.
March 2009. Entrance on Vicolo delle Terme.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance on Vicolo delle Terme, looking west.
VII.6.21 Pompeii.
March 2009. Entrance on Vicolo delle Terme.
VII.6.21 Pompeii.
May 2005. Entrance on Vicolo delle Terme.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west from entrance, across site of shop.
According to Eschebach, this shop would have had a shop-counter with 3 dolia, on the left.
At the rear of the counter on the left, would have been a doorway to a rear room possibly a cubiculum.
At the rear on the right would have been a room with the steps to the upper floor and a cupboard.
Behind the room with the stairs would have been a kitchen, with hearth and latrine.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.295)
The approximate area for the kitchen would have been under the piled-up stones and bricks at the rear.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west towards rear room.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. May 2005. Remains of small millstone in shop area, and two terracotta pots.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. May 2003. Remains of terracotta pots and small millstone. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west towards rear room.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. May 2003. Remains. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west into rear room, site of kitchen with hearth and latrine.
VII.6.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking into shop room, and rear room, from VII.6.20.