VII.12.17 Pompeii. Casa di Narcisso or House of the Statue of Narcissus.
Officina lanifricaria and dwelling house. Linked to VII.12.21.
Excavated 1862. (Vico del Lupanare 24).
VII.12.17 Pompeii, on left.
December 2018.
Looking
north along west side of Vicolo del Lupanare. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.12.18 and VII.12.17 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrances on Vicolo del Lupanare. Looking south-east.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Entrance doorway.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking west from entrance doorway towards a
doorway into VII.12.21. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west towards doorway to VII.12.21.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking west
from entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west from entrance doorway.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking from entrance doorway towards doorway into VII.12.21.
A brick and tile hearth with wood store underneath is on the right of the doorway.
VII.12.17.21 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.
According to Kuivalainen –
The condition of the statuette is good but the original base has been replaced and the panther is lost.
Kuivalainen comments –
The male’s apparel and the position of the right-hand fingers identifies the bronze as Bacchus dangling a bunch of grapes above a panther.
The iconographic formula is also known from wall paintings in Pompeii.
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (H14, p.219).
VII.12.17 Pompeii. 1905.
Looking west to tourists admiring the statue of Narcissus, displayed on the hearth. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.12.17.21 Pompeii. Undated postcard by Sommer.
Statuette of Narcissus also sometimes described as Dionysus or Pan. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.12.17.21 Pompeii. Photograph by M. Amodio, from an album dated April 1878.
Statuette of Narcissus also sometimes described as Dionysus or Pan. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to Kuivalainen, this statue (now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 5003), had fallen from the upper floor.
“The condition is good, but the original base has been replaced, and the panther is lost.”
He comments –
“The male’s apparel and the position of the right-hand fingers identifies the bronze as Bacchus dangling a bunch of grapes above a panther.
The iconographic formula is also known from wall paintings in Pompeii.”
See
Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes
Humanarum Litterarum
140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p. 219, H14.)
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to room on north side of entrance doorway.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. North side.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking west across south side, with two round
basins set into podium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west across south side, towards two round water basins set in podium.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across south side, towards two round water basins set in podium, from VII.12.21.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2006.
Looking east across south side, towards two round water basins set in podium.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. 1966. Looking east 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.12.17 Pompeii. May 1886. View from VII.12.21.
Old photograph courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east towards room on north side, taken from VII.12.21.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. 1966.
Looking east into VII.12.17, taken 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. North side, from VII.12.21.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. July 2008. Latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. Bronze brocca jug found in fullonica at VII.12.17.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 69493.
VII.12.17 Pompeii. Bronze brocca jug found in fullonica at VII.12.17.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 69493.