VIII.5.1 Pompeii. Corner shop. Taberna offectoris.
Linked to side entrance at VIII.5.40. Excavated 1819. (Strada dell’Abbondanza 11).
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south from behind fountain at VII.9.67 towards entrance
doorway on east side of junction with Vicolo dei dodici Dei, on right.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking south. On the west side (right) can be seen the side entrance at VIII.5.40.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. May 2005. East side of shop, with niche in east wall.
According to Boyce, the arched niche was called by Fiorelli “la nicchia dei Penati”.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.76, no.364)
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.163).
According to Fiorelli, this shop originally had a doorway at the rear, that would have linked it with the atrium of VIII.5.2, but then was blocked up.
See Fiorelli, G.
(1875). Descrizione di Pompei,
(p.446).
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking
towards east wall of shop-room, with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. December 2018. Niche in east
wall of shop-room. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. South-west corner of shop, with doorway to VIII.5.40. Also seen is a large brick cylindrical tank.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.379)
VIII.5.1 Pompeii. 1968.
Looking east along sill/threshold and pavement on Via dell’Abbondanza. 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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