VII.9.64 Pompeii. Steps to upper floor dwelling.

Excavated 1820.

VII.9.64 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance on Vicolo degli Scheletri.

VII.9.64 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north from entrance.

VII.9.64 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps to upper floor in north-west corner, and latrine in north-east.

VII.9.64 Pompeii. July 2005. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

According to Hobson when writing “next door to VII.9.63 a new entrance from the street was made.

This gave 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.9.64 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps to upper floor.

VII.9.64 Pompeii. December 2005. Latrine in north-east corner.