IX.1.14 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1856. (Strada Stabiana 86).

IX.1.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Via Stabiana. 

IX.1.13 Pompeii, on left, and IX.1.14 on right. December 2018. Looking towards doorways. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.1.13 Pompeii, on left and IX.1.14, on right. 1959. Entrances on Via Stabiana. 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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IX.1.14 Pompeii. December 2005.

Entrance, looking towards the south-east corner. At the rear would have been stairs to an upper floor. 

IX.1.14 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Entrance doorway. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.56), p. 88.

IX.1.13 Pompeii, on left, and IX.1.14, on right. December 2018.

Looking east to pilaster separating two entrances, with a tufa phallus set into a plaque.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Plaque between IX.1.13 and IX.1.14. December 2005. Found in June 1853, under the plaque and written in red, was

Ubi  me  iuvat  asido    [CIL IV 950]

Also written on the pilaster was

Holconium

II v(irum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  lignari(i)

[.......................................................]

Iuvenem egreg(ium)   [CIL IV 951]

Postumium

Popidium  aed(ilem)  cum

[…] rog(at)   [CIL IV 952]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.168)

According to Fiorelli, perhaps this shop was occupied by carpenters (fabri lignarii), as near to the doorway between various other graffiti was one which read –

HOLCONIVM

II V.I.D. LIGNARI

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.138)

According to Della Corte, written between the doorways of numbers IX.1.13 and IX.1.14 was –

Lignari (rognat)   (CIL IV.951)

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.208).

IX.1.13 and IX.1.14 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of tufa phallus set into pilaster between entrances. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Plaque between IX.1.13 and IX.1.14. December 2005.

Plaque between IX.1.13 and IX.1.14. December 2005.

The tufa tablet with a red painted phallus on a blue background, under which was written -

ubi me iuvat asido        [CIL IV 950]

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.138)

According to Warscher, it would have read –

VBI . ME . IVVAT . ASIDO

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.56, CIL IV 950), p. 82.