VIII.6.4 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1882.

Notizie degli Scavi, (January) 1882, p.281, reads –

“Dell’isola situata a mezzo giorno della 5, e che per la regione esposta di sopra sara da ora innanzi 6.........”

(“Of the insula situated to the south of 5, which will now be called 6……,”)

Vicolo della Regina, Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east towards doorway to VIII.6.4, in centre. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023. Looking north-east towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023. Looking north towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance, looking north.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023. Wall on west side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023. Wall on east side of entrance doorway, and rooms at rear. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023.

Looking from entrance doorway, on the right of the entrance corridor are the doorways to stairs, and a small storeroom with two doorways.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023.

Looking from entrance corridor, on left, towards small room with two doorways. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north along corridor towards peristyle area.

On the right of the corridor, are the doorways to stairs, and a small storeroom with two doorways.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Two rooms on right (east) of entrance corridor.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023.

Looking north-east towards triclinium on west side of entrance corridor, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. October 2023. Triclinium, on west (left) side of entrance corridor. Looking north-west. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. September 2005. On the left of the corridor was a triclinium.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across triclinium and corridor, to site of peristyle/garden.

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across triclinium and corridor, to site of peristyle/garden.

See Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, XV, 2004, for a “Scavi stratigrafici” (p.39-40).

This seems to refer to an excavation near the east wall of the garden area, and also into the neighbouring garden area of VIII.6.6.

However, please note, they show this house as VIII.6.3, and the garden area to the east as VIII.6.5 (our number is VIII.6.6).

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. 1968. Looking north towards remains of peristyle garden. 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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According to Jashemski –

“The garden was enclosed on four sides by a portico supported by fourteen brick columns, of which only the bases remained.

The area at the rear had been cleared of previous construction, probably after the 62AD earthquake, as had the area to the west, for which even the location of the entrance is not clear.”

She described this location as VIII.6.3 (No.14 at Pompeii).

Sources: Sogliano, NSc., (1883), p.51 (p.52, see below); Mau, BdI., (1884), p.135-136 (where the location is given as VII.7.[5], but meaning VIII.7)

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.219).

VIII.6.4 Pompeii. Plan, doorway numbered (5), with unnumbered “blocked” doorway on north side of insula.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1883, p.170.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1884, (p.135)

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1884, (p.136).

Rear wall of VIII.6.4 in Vicolo delle Pareti Rosse, with a blocked doorway. December 2007.