VII.9.30 Pompeii. Thermopolium of Donatus and Verpus.
Linked to VII .9.29 and
VII.9.31. Excavated 1822.
VII.9.29-31.
Con due altre botteghe, che costituivano un
termopolio termina questa lato dell’isola. La prima ha
la scaletta, ed una cella dietroposta: la seconda
oltre il banco di fabbrica co’rispondenti scalini,
per tenervi sopra bicchieri e stoviglie, ha una seconda gradinata, una della piu interna con focolare ed uscita nei
vico ad oriente, e l’adito di una scala portante a stanze superiori.
Poco discosto leggesi –
C. LOLLIVM.FVSCVM.AED.
(trans: this side of the insula ended with two other shops,
which constituted a thermopolium. The first had the stair-ladder, and a room
behind it: the second apart from the masonry bench with corresponding
steps/shelves, to keep glasses and dishes on top, had a second stairs, one of
the rooms most internal with hearth and exit onto the eastern vicolo, and the
entrance doorway to a staircase leading to the upper rooms. Nearby was read –
C. LOLLIUM.FUSCUM.AED.)
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.106).
Via degli Augustali Pompeii, south side. December 2018.
Looking west from entrance doorway at VII.9.30, on left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south towards entrance doorway.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway.
According to Boyce, perhaps at this taberna, might have been found on one pilaster a painting of Mercury.
Found on the opposite pilaster was Bacchus leaning upon a square pilaster and pressing the juice from a bunch of grapes into a kantharos.
The kantharos stood on the top of the square pilaster.
His references were Helbig 25, PAH II, 55 (July 7 1822), Museo Borbonico III, pl.50, Gell, Pompeiana (1832), i, 191, ii,172.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.111, no.19)
VII.9.30 Pompeii. Drawing of 1827 of painting on entrance doorway.
Bacchus is leaning upon a square pilaster and pressing the juice from a bunch of grapes into a kantharos.
The kantharos stands on the top of the square pilaster. A panther is to the left of the pilaster.
See Real Museo Borbonico III, 1827, Tav. L (upper).
Kuivalainen comments –
“A young half-naked Bacchus, engaged in an activity rarely represented in Pompeian wall paintings.”
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, p. 113-14, C12.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. May 2003. Entrance doorway, looking south. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south across two-sided counter.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south towards rear of bar-room and doorway to VII.9.31.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Shelves for displaying crockery at east end of counter.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. May 2003.
Shelving for display of crockery, with recess below, at east end of counter. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Steps to upper floor.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. September 2005. East side of entrance on Via degli Augustali.
VII.9.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Groove in marble sill for shutter.
