VII.16.7 Pompeii. Thermopolium of Flavus Nicephorus, with rear room.
Excavated 1846 and 1859. Bombed in 1943, and restored c.1950.
VII.16.7 Pompeii, on right. December 2018.
Looking west on Via Marina, on left, with junction to Vicolo del Gigante
(or Vicolo dei Soprastanti), on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north to entrance
doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii, on right. March 2018. Looking
north-west towards entrance doorways which would have been under a portico.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. July 2011. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to
Fiorelli -
“Questa bottega
tiene sul pilastro che la precede un’edicola di fabbrica, ed in essa una pelta
marmorea, con rilievo di due maschere tragiche e due faci, gia servita a
decorare l’intercolunnio del portico di qualche ricca abitazione, e poi posta
qui come segno averrunco contro il fascino. Al di sotto dell’edicola era
dipinto:
CASELLIUM.AED.OVF
Essa
probabilmente fu un termopolio, standovi il podio con due urne ed i consueti
gradini per le stoviglie, il focolare, due nicchie per i Penati, ed una cella
nel fondo con uscita nel vico orientale no.8.”
(translation: This shop had a masonry aedicula on the
pilaster that preceded it, and in it was a marble pelta with the relief showing
two tragic masks and two faces, formerly used to decorate the intercolumniation
of the portico of some rich house, and then placed here as a sign against the
evil-eye. Painted underneath the aedicula was
CASELLIUM.AED.OVF
It was probably a thermopolium, because of the podium
with two urns and the usual steps/shelving for the crockery, the hearth, two
niches for the Penates, and a room at the rear with another exit at VII.16.8 in
the eastern vicolo.”)
VII.16.7 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north
from entrance doorway into bar-room.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. May 2024.
Entrance doorway, pilaster with aedicula niche and two niches on west wall of bar-room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2018.
Entrance doorway and pilaster with aedicula niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii on right, and
VII.16.6, on left. December 2018.
Looking
north to pilaster between entrances. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. W.1594. Marble pelta, in situ. This was bombed in 1943 and destroyed.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
According to
Fiorelli -
“Questa bottega
tiene sul pilastro che la precede un’edicola di fabbrica, ed in essa una pelta
marmorea, con rilievo di due maschere tragiche e due faci, gia
servita a decorare l’intercolunnio del portico di qualche ricca abitazione, e
poi posta qui come segno averrunco contro il fascino”.
(translation: This shop had a masonry aedicula on the
pilaster that preceded it, and in it was a marble pelta with the relief showing
two tragic masks and two faces, formerly used to decorate the intercolumniation
of the portico of some rich house, and then placed here as a sign against the
evil-eye.
Vedi/See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.161)
VII.16.6/7
Pompeii. March 2018. Detail of masonry aedicula niche on pilaster.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.16.6/7 Pompeii. May 2005. Masonry aedicula niche on pilaster between VII.16.6 and VII.16.7.
This had held a marble pelta or crescent-shaped shield decorated with the relief of two tragic masks, and two lamps.
The pelta was destroyed and lost forever in the 1943 bombing.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di
guerra a Pompei. Rome:
L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.131 and fig. 310-311)
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.161)
VIII.1 Pompeii, on left. March 2009. Looking west on Via Marina, with VII.16.7 on right.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. 1972. Looking west on Via Marina. 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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Looking west towards entrance doorway, on left, counter with display shelves and inset urn/s, and west wall with two niches.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking west towards entrance doorway, on left, counter with display shelves and inset urn/s, and west wall with two niches.
Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking west towards entrance doorway, on left, counter with display shelves and inset urn/s, and west wall with two niches.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway, counter with display shelves and inset urns, and west wall with two niches.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall with two arched niches.
According to Boyce, these two arched niches, of similar size, were described by Fiorelli as “due nicchie per I Penati”.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.73, no.337).
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December
2018.
Looking
towards west wall at south end, with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7
Pompeii. December 2018.
Niche
set into west wall at south end. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
Detail of niche at south end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall, southern end. Arched niche with a low step, as described by Boyce.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p73, No.337)
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December
2018.
Looking
towards niche on west wall at north end. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. May 2024.
Detail of niche at north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Arched niche at northern end of west wall.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south along west wall towards rear of
counter, and entrance on Via Marina. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii but shown as VII.A.7 on photo. Pre-1937-39.
Looking south along west wall with two arched niches, display shelving and counter.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1901.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2006. Two arched niches, display shelving and counter with urn.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. May 2003.
Looking west across counter towards display shelves, and arch at south end. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking west across counter towards display shelves. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. May 2003.
Looking towards west wall and arched niche at northern end. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2006. Counter with urn. According to Fiorelli, the counter originally held two urns.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.161)
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2006. Counter and urn, looking north.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. September 2021.
Looking north-west at end of west wall, towards north end of workshop at VII.16.6. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north towards rear room and two dolia.
According to Garcia y Garcia, the thermopolium linked with VII.16.8 was destroyed by the 1943 bombing, then badly restored.
It deleted the doorway that was between the two properties.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni
di guerra a Pompei. Rome:
L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.131).
Looking
south across bar room from rear room, towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy
of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. September 2019.
Looking north from area of rear room,
towards doorways of VII.16.8, 9 and 10 on Vicolo del Gigante. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking north along remains of counter, with inset urn.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across bar room to rear room.
VII.16.7 or 8 Pompeii. December 1968. Looking north towards rear
room. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. September 2011.
Looking north along east wall of bar room towards rear room, and Vicolo del Gigante. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.16.7 Pompeii on left, and VII.16.6 on right. June 2019.
Looking south from remains of bakery at VII.16.9, across VII.16.8,
on left, towards rear room of VII.16.7, upper left, and on towards entrance
doorway onto Via Marina.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.16.7 Pompeii, on right. September 2019.
Looking north-west
across insula and side wall of VII.16.7 on Vicolo del Gigante. Photo courtesy of Klaus
Heese.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking north-west
across insula and side wall of VII.16.7 on Vicolo del Gigante, at junction with
Via Marina, on left.
Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.16.7 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north-west across insula, disastrously bombed in 1943.