VIII.2.3 Pompeii. Casa di
Championnet II.
Linked to VIII.2.4 and VIII.2.5.
Part 2 Part 1
Rear of VIII.2.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north towards rear of Casa di Championnet II.
This area can be seen on the right of the tree in the centre of the photo. Underneath the house is the large square opening.
Rear of VIII.2 Pompeii. March 2012. Looking north towards rear. Photo courtesy of Marina Fuxa.
Rear of VIII.2 Pompeii. May 2006. Rear of VIII.2 (in centre) and Sarno baths complex (on right).
VIII.2.3 Pompeii.
Rear (south) part of peristyle/garden area numbered 9 and 10 on part of plan by Mazois.
13 would have been a large room, (doorways, now bricked up).
According to Mazois, it was part of a large apartment which had not yet been excavated.
14: room or oecus in south-east corner of peristyle area, leading through to terrace.
15: room or oecus in south-west corner of peristyle area.
16: large oecus on south side of peristyle garden, with fine view from terrace.
17: would have been a terrace, built over the city walls with fine views towards the sea.
VIII.2.3 Pompeii. Rear (south) part of peristyle/garden area, numbered 13.
15 and 16 – both large bedrooms, separated by a small room/cabinet attached to the first.
17 and 19 – two rooms on either side of large room/oecus, numbered 18.
20 - terrace
According to Breton –
“These rear rooms would have been built over lower rooms, but even in 1855, they would have been nearly entirely destroyed.”
VIII.2.3 and VIII.2.16 Pompeii. December 2005.
Looking through doorway of collapsed side room in south-east side of peristyle/garden, with rooms below belonging to VIII.2.16 (?).
According to PPM – VIII.2.14-16 (p.74 and 75) – regarding rooms on lower levels -
“……and those (rooms) on the west side belonged in reality to the house at nos. 3-5.”
And -
“On the lower level, and reachable by stairs towards the west, were rooms 10-13, which had mosaic flooring and remains of paintings of mediocre quality.
The rooms (14-22), about 3m higher than the rooms 10-13, were probably reachable from the house at no. 3, even if built in the same building phase”.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. VIII. (8). Roma: Istituto
della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 74 and 75).
VIII.2.3 view from Casa di Championnet II. December 2005.
Looking south-east from doorway on south side of peristyle/garden into to area of collapsed oecus, on right.
The rooms at the rear of the peristyle garden, the oecus with a room on either side of it, would have all enjoyed fine views from the terrace on their south side. Looking across towards the rear of VIII.2.16.
VIII.2.3 and VIII.2.16 Pompeii. December 2005.
Two rooms belonging to lower level of VIII.2.16 (?) beneath the oecus, on the south-east side of the peristyle/garden.
VIII.2.3 Pompeii. November 2017.
Rooms belonging to lower level of VIII.2.16 (?) beneath the oecus, on the south-east side of the peristyle/garden.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.1/3 Pompeii. June 2010.
Looking across east from area of large room with vaulted ceiling on lower left.
At the rear of this room, centre of photo is the large triclinium “J”, with masonry remains belonging to the walls of rooms/terrace on its south side.
In the centre top of the photo, behind triclinium “J”, the remains of the vaulted ceiling of the large triclinium in VIII.2.3/VIII.2.16 can be seen.
In the upper right
of the photo are the rooms belonging to the lower rear rooms of VIII.2.14-16.
Photo courtesy of Sandra Zanella.
VIII.2.3 and VIII.2.16 Pompeii. December 2005.
On the left, site of two lower rooms beneath oecus of VIII.2.3.
In the centre a vaulted triclinium belonging to VIII.2.16 (?), lower level, with remains of painted decoration, below room of VIII.2.3 on south-west side.
According to PPM –
“East wall. At the extreme right of the wall was a doorway which had been closed before the making of the plaster painted in the III style.
The zoccolo was white. In the red middle zone, an elegant aedicula was outlined that also continued into the frieze, below this was a painting.
(PPM thought it was a painting in which a scene set in a landscape could be recognised.)
The epistyle had a frieze with lotus buds, badly taken up in the restoration that could not repeat its peculiarities, and an acroterial swan.
The side panels were red.
The red middle zone of the wall was separated by a white band from the upper zone of the same colour, in which were found, light white architectures with palmettes and acroterial swirls/circles and, in the area above the door a golden medallion (?). A stucco cornice marks the start of the white vault.”
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. VIII.
(8). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.
93, No.35, 36 and 37, VIII.2.16).
VIII.2.3 and VIII.2.16 Pompeii. April 2018.
Photo
courtesy of Ian Lycett-King.
Use
is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
License v.4 International.
According
to Zanella -
The
large triclinium, on the left, would have been known as Room B, (or VIII.2.3-5,
room 237).
VIII.2.3 Pompeii. 1937.
Plan showing triclinium B (room 237) and the position of the furniture
discovered. After AS-MANN, II Inv. 142 f. 16 D3.
See Zanella S., 2019. La caccia fu buona: Pour une
histoire des fouilles à Pompéi de Titus à l’Europe. Naples : Centre Jean Bérard, p. 262, fig. 152.
From
28th January 1937 (p.257), many objects were found on the layer of ash near the
floor towards the east wall of Room B, (or VIII.2.3-5, room 237).
Many
of the items found are listed on pages 257 – 268.
On
the 6th February 1937 (p.266) –
“In room B, the work
of cleaning the signinum floor continued, taking care to observe the alluvial
mud layers in detail.
Found near the
eastern face of the imprint of the couch, were: Bronze:..... Bone:..... Glass
paste:.....
During the
collection of the objects, several stuccoes of the central painting from the
eastern wall were recovered among the rubble.”
On
the 9th February 1937 (p.268) –
“in
this room, the collection of the fragments of the stucco from the central
painting had also been completed, which from its recomposition had resulted in
a painting 1.10m x 0.75m; it depicted the myth of Acteon and Diana in a
pictorial version different from the well-known representation.”
See Zanella S., 2019. La caccia fu buona: Pour une
histoire des fouilles à Pompéi de Titus à l’Europe. Naples : Centre Jean
Bérard, pp. 257-268.
VIII.2.1/3 Pompeii. April 2019. Bronze statuette of Mercury carrying a money bag.
Found in the area to the south of the House of Championnet.
Pompeii Inventory number 6331. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to Zanella -
This statuette was found in Room B, the triclinium on the lower floor of VIII.2.3-5 (or VIII.2.14-16) on 9th February 1937.
9/2/1937
In room B an imprint
of a box had been removed at a distance of m. ,0,70 from the bed frame, this
imprint had been found to be m.0.68 x 0.50 x 0.22 including a shelf in the
front m.0.50 x 0.18 x 0.16.
In removing the last clod of ash with the partial imprint of the triclinium couch, the following was found: Bronze: statue representing Mercury standing missing a (leg) with the pouch and caduceus; it was fragmented and missing its left leg from the knee down and the right foot.
Alt m.0.068 (Pompeii inv. 6331)
(Nel ambiente B si era
rimosso un’impronta di cassa distante m. ,0,70 dal telaio del letto, detta
impronta era risultata di m.0.68 x 0.50 x 0.22 compreso un ripiano nella parte
anteriore m.0.50 x 0.18 x 0.16.
Nel rimuovere l’ultima
zolla di cenere con l’impronta parziale del letto tricliniare si era rinvenuto:
bronzo: statuina rappresentante Mercurio stante mancante di un (*) col marsupio
e caducco; era frammentata e mancante della gamba sinistra dal ginocchio in giù
e del piede destro. Alt m.0.068 (Pompei inv. 6331))
See Zanella S., 2019. La caccia fu buona: Pour une
histoire des fouilles à Pompéi de Titus à l’Europe. Naples : Centre Jean
Bérard, p. 268.
VIII.2.1/3 Pompeii.
2017/2018/2019.
Bronze statuette of
Mercury carrying a money bag. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VIII.2.3 Pompeii. November 2017.
Looking south along east wall of triclinium
of VIII.2.16 on the lower level.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.3 Pompeii. November 2017. Looking south to lower level and corridor belonging to VIII.2.1.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VIII.2.3 and VIII.2.16 Pompeii. December 2005.
Triclinium of VIII.2.16 on the lower level, on left, with corridor on lower level belonging to VIII.2.1, on right.
VIII.2.2 and VIII.2.3 on Via Championnet. Looking east. December 2004.
VIII.2.3 Pompeii, on left. May 2005. Vicolo di Championnet, looking west. VIII.1 on right.