VII.9.63 Pompeii. Casa della
Pescatrice.
Linked to VII.9.60. Excavated 1823.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking north along entrance corridor, from Eumachia’s Building.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005.
Entrance fauces or corridor, looking north. On the left can be seen the doorway to the kitchen and latrine.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. July 2005. Looking west towards latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
According to Hobson, the original latrine was at the end of a narrow corridor to the north of the house.
Probably in the first century, this latrine was sealed over and replaced by a latrine in the room immediately to the left of the doorway.
This room might then have become a work area and perhaps housed the kitchen as well as the toilet.
Next door to VII.9.63 a new entrance from the street was made, giving access via a staircase to the upper storey, and to the right of the stairs another new latrine was constructed.
This was now back-to-back with the one in VII.9.63 and emptied into the same cesspit.
In addition, the staircase led to an upper storey latrine, the down pipe from which was inserted into the wall.
The provision here of three latrines leads one to ask, who used each of them?
See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.68)
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. Latrine in kitchen or work area.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. Latrine.
VII.9.63 Pompeii.
December 2005. Terracotta downpipe.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north along entrance fauces or corridor towards atrium.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north to atrium from entrance fauces.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north across impluvium in atrium.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. West side of atrium, with doorways to two cubicula.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. North-west corner of first cubiculum.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. North wall of second cubiculum.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. Two doorways on north side of atrium.
VII.9.63 Pompeii. December 2005. East side of atrium, one of these doorways on the east would have led through to peristyle area, see VII.9.60.
VII.9.60/63 Pompeii. 1842 painting of wall from a room in the Casa delle Pescatrice.
See Zahn, W., 1842. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, (Taf. 94).
According to PPM, these paintings were all found in the same room, probably one of the rooms around the peristyle area (see VII.9.60).
See Pompei:
Pitture e Mosaici, Vol. VII, Roma: Istituto
della enciclopedia italiana, (p.380-383).
VII.9.60/63 Pompeii. 1840 drawing of Venus Pescatrice.
According to Breton, this house (linked with VII.9.60) was known as “of the fisherwoman” because of its painting of Venus fishing.
It was discovered between 1822 and 1823.
At the rear, in a small room, one could see three paintings – Europa on the bull, Narcissus, and Venus fishing.
There were only a few traces remaining of Venus, on the wall on the right.
See Roux, H., 1840. Herculanem et Pompei recueil général
des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaïques : Tome 3. Paris : Didot, (pl. 110).
VII.9.63/60 Pompeii. 1840. Drawing of Venus Pescatrice, by Zahn.
See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 55.
VII.9.63/60 Pompeii. Pre-1825.
Drawing of painting of Venus Pescatrice and Narcissus, both from the same room in a house at the rear of Eumachia’s building.
See Real Museo Borbonico Vol. II,
1825, Tav. XVIII.
VII.9.60/63 Pompeii. 1840 drawing of Narcissus, from the rear wall of the same room as other paintings.
See Roux, H., 1840. Herculanem et Pompei recueil général
des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaïques : Tome 3. Paris : Didot, (pl. 111)
VII.9.60/63 Pompeii. 1827. Drawing of Europa on the bull, from a wall in the same room as the other paintings.
See Reinach S., 1922. Répertoire de peintures
grecques et romaines. Paris Leroux. (pl. 14,6).
See Zahn, W., 1828. Die schönsten Ornamente und
merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: I. Berlin:
Reimer, (Taf. 38).
(Note: there would seem to be some confusion here -
According to RMB, this painting was found in the centre of the wall opposite the drawing of a painting of Hercules and Iole which was found in VI.7.6.
It was thought to be an interpretation of Jupiter kidnapping Europa, (Europa on the bull) but in this painting it was recognised as a Bacchante celebrating with the Dionysian bull.
In this house, there was no mention of a painting of Hercules and Iole being found in the same room, just Venus Pescatrice and Narcissus.)
See Real Museo Borbonico III, 1827, Ta. XIX.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1566.
VII.9.63 Pompeii, in centre. Pre-1937-39. Looking west on Vicolo degli Scheletri.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1555.