VII.9.13 Pompeii. Steps to upper floor. Excavated 1821.

VII.9.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway.

VII.9.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway of steps to upper floor.

VII.9.13 Pompeii. December 2007. Site of steps to upper floor. 

Della Corte surmised that these steps led to the rooms of the society of makers and sellers of unguents and perfumes.

Found on the wall at the side of the stairs was CIL IV 609 in support of the candidate Verus –

Unguentari facite rog(amus)

Another electoral recommendation that he could read, he published for the first time –

Modestum Aed

(Unguen)tari et Pauper(es) facite

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.181)

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

Verum aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 609]

Modestum aed(ilem)

[unguen]tari et pauper[es] facite       [CIL IV 9932a]

VII.9.13 Pompeii. Inscription recorded in CIL IV 1871 as described by Mommsen.

NERVM AED OVF

VNGVENTARI FACITE ROG

Later in CIL IV 1871 this is changed to VERVM

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

Unguentari facite rog(amus)        [CIL IV 609]

See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Vol. IV, 1871. Berlin: Reimer, p. 38, p. 195.