VII.12.21 Pompeii. Casa di Narcisso or House of the Statue of Narcissus.

Linked to VII.12.17. Excavated 1862. (Vico del Balcone Pensile 3)

VII.12.21 Pompeii on right. December 2018.

Looking towards entrance doorway on north side of Vicolo del Balcone Pensile. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway, after restoration.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north along fauces or entrance corridor.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Fauces or entrance corridor.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. July 2008. Looking west in room on left of entrance corridor, with window onto vicolo.

The downpipe in the south-west corner leads from an upper storey latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. July 2008. South-west corner. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room on west side of fauces.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Impluvium in atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking south-west across atrium, photo taken from VII.12.15.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. North-west corner of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room on west side of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of atrium at west end.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. North wall of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north-east across atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. Pre 1937-39. Looking north-east across impluvium in atrium.

The marble table is in place on the end of the impluvium

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1504.

See also Warscher T, 1948. Marmi di Pompeii: Vol. 3. Rome: Swedish Institute, fig. 133.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. Undated watercolour by Bazzani. Looking north-east across impluvium in atrium.

Painting by Luigi Bazzani, of a “House with impluvium and marble table in Pompeii”.

In her guidebook, Warsher incorrectly attributes a picture of this table to VII.12.23.

See Warsher, Tatiana (1930). Pompeii. Rome, (p. 24, fig. 5).

VII.12.21 Pompeii. Pre 1937-39. Marble table supported by Griffins.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1505.

Warscher in 1948 notes: “La mensa e trasportata nel Museo di Pompei”.

See Warscher T, 1948. Marmi di Pompeii: Vol. 3. Rome: Swedish Institute, fig. 133b.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. Pre 1948. Underneath the marble table supported by Griffins is a crown of ivy.

Warscher notes: “Richiamo attenzio alla corona di edera d’un lavoro molto fine”.

See Warscher T, 1948. Marmi di Pompeii: Vol. 3. Rome: Swedish Institute, fig. 133b.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north-east across marble impluvium in atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Doorways to three rooms on east side of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Room in north-east corner of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Middle room of three rooms on east side of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking into triclinium on south side of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Triclinium on south side of atrium, looking south-east.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room on south-east side of atrium.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Room on south-east side of atrium with doorway into VII.12.17.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north-east in room on south-east side of atrium towards doorway into VII.12.17.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking through doorway into VII.12.17.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. 1966. Looking through doorway into VII.12.17 from VII.12.21. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east into VII.12.17.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. 1966. Looking east into VII.12.17. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.12.21 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east into VII.12.17.

VII.12.21 Pompeii.  December 2005. Looking east into VII.12.17.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. 1966. Looking east into VII.12.17. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.12.21 Pompeii. October 2023.

Bronze statue of Young Dionysos. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5003.

On display in “L’altra MANN” exhibition, October 2023, at Naples Archaeological Museum.

VII.12.21 Pompeii. October 2023.

Description card for Young Dionysus inv. 5003. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VII.12.21.17 Pompeii. June 1862. Bronze statue found in the small room near the entrance at VII.12.17.

Fiorelli identified it on excavation as possibly a statue of Narcissus.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.112).

Mau identified it as a statue of Dionysus, and it is now displayed as this.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.452).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5003.