VII.9.3 Pompeii. Santuario dei Lari Pubblici. Excavated 1817.

According to Fiorelli –

“Atrium. I do not know what name this atrium bore, its rear has the shape of an apse, and contains a large platform between two statue niches. Its long sides show two pedestals, in special aedicules made in the form of small temples, with pediments supported by columns. On the sides of each aedicule there are two other niches, which are followed by a third at the end of the wall closest to the semi-circle/hemicycle.”

(“Atrium. Ignoro qual nome portasse questo atrio, il cui fondo ha forma di abside, e contiene un ampio suggesto tra due nicchie di statue. I suoi lati lunghi esibiscono due piedistalli, in apposite edicole fatto a guisa di tempietti, con fastigio sostenuto da colonne; ai fianchi di ogni edicola sonovi due altri nicchie, alle quali succede una terza nello estremo del muro più prossimo all’emiciclo”).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.104-105)

VII.9.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east from Forum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. October 2014. Masonry pilaster at north end, looking south on east side of Forum.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.9.3 Pompeii. October 2014. Masonry pilaster at north end, with podium and VII.9.4, on left.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.9.3 Pompeii. October 2014. Detail of remaining marble decoration from lower wall at north end.

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VII.9.3 Pompeii, on right. 4th October 1937.

Looking east across north end of forum, near Temple of Jupiter, on left. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Podium to north of entrance.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Podium between VII.9.4 and VII.9.3 facing the Forum.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards area from east side of Forum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

According to Bonucci –

“This was described as a large semicircular room, opening widely to the Forum, with an altar in the centre, and decorated with seats, niches, and once also with statues. He wrote that perhaps in this enclosure the order of Decurions held its public sessions.”

See Bonucci, C., 1827. Pompei descritta: Terza Edizione. Napoli: Raffaele Miranda, p.166.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking east from Forum.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking towards east wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. April 2019. Looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. May 2016. Looking towards entrance on east side of Forum.

One of 30 monumental sculptures by Igor Mitoraj located around the area of Pompeii, on display until January 2017.

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking north.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

According to Garcia y Garcia –

“The so-called Chapel of the Public Lares. This was bombed on the same night of September 13^th, together with the public buildings which surround it, it suffered the demolition of a large part of the perimeter wall to the north connecting with the Macellum, and the dismantling of part of the brick work of the apse on the north side of the sanctuary.” 

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.124).

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. North wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Detail of north wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking north-east.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii, October 2023. Looking north-east across site of altar. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

According to Fiorelli –

“In the middle of the atrium there was an altar, probably placed there in the time of Tiberius, and dedicated with great solemnity to the health of the emperor and his sons: an epigraph, painted in the Large Theatre, seems to mention it, but today it has entirely vanished:”

(Nel mezzo dell’Atrio sorgeva un’ara, probabilmente postavi ai tempi di Tiberio, e dedicata con grandi solennità alla salute dell’imperatore e dei suoi figliuoli: di essa parmi faccia menzione un’epigrafe, dipinta presso il teatro maggiore, che oggi però è interamente svanita).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.104-105).

Inscription recorded by Fiorelli. The handwritten number 1180 was added by Mau to identify that it was CIL IV 1180.

See Fiorelli, G., 1875. Descrizione di Pompei. Napoli, p. 263

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

This read

Pro salute
[Imp(eratoris) Vespasiani] Caesaris Augu[sti] li[b]e[ro]rumqu[e]
[eius ob] dedicationem arae [glad(iatorum) par(ia) ---] Cn(aei) [All]ei Nigidi Mai,
flami[nis] Caesaris Augusti, pugn(abunt) Pompeis, sine ulla dilatione,
IIII Non(as) Iul(ias): venatio, [sparsiones], vela erunt.   [CIL IV 1180].

Marble inscription, dedication to Julia Augusta from the Forum area, probably from the so-called Temple of the Lares, 14-42 AD.

The inscription would have read –

“To the Augusta Julia, daughter of Drusus, wife of the divine Augustus, by decree of the decurions”.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 3815, (CIL X, 799).

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards north-east corner.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 151.

VII.9.3 Pompeii, October 2023. Looking north-east from south side of altar. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VII.9.3 Pompeii, October 2023. Looking south-east from north side of altar. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VII.9.3 Pompeii, October 2023. South-west corner of altar. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Passageway leading towards VII.9.43.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Passageway leading towards VII.9.43

VII.9.3 Pompeii. May 2010. East wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. North end of east wall.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. South end of east wall.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards south end of east wall.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1714.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Decorative marble.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Decorative marble.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Decorative marble.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking south-east.

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VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking east through doorway in south-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

According to Fiorelli –

“A small door in the aedicule to the right of the atrium gave entrance to some adjoining rooms, communicating with those of the adjoining temple, and with an exit into the same “blind alley”.

(Una porticina che trovasi nell’edicola a destra dell’Atrio, dava adito ad alcune celle annesse, comunicanti con quelle del tempio adiacente, e con uscita nello stesso angiporto.)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.104-105).

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking towards south-east corner.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. South-east corner.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking south.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.9.3 Pompeii. September 2005. South side leading onto the Forum.