IX.1.20 Pompeii. House of M. Epidius Rufus or House of Diadumeni.
Excavated 1858 and 1866. Linked to IX.1.30.
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IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 3.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 3, south-east corner.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 4.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 4, looking south.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007.
Room 2, atrium. East side showing doorways to room 5, (with window) and room 6, ala with columns.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east towards doorway to room 5.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, doorway and window in west wall, looking out onto atrium.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. W.335. Looking east across impluvium in atrium, towards doorway to room 5.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Warscher wrote that “only a small part of the epistyle remained.”
Photo © Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, north wall.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, east wall.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, window in wall on east side of atrium.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2017.
Room 5, on right, with window in wall next to east ala 6, on left.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 2, looking east across
impluvium in atrium towards east ala 6.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019.
Looking east towards household shrine in east ala 6.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007.
Room 2, atrium on east side, showing room 6, ala, with household shrine and 2 Ionic columns in opening.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. W.336. Room 2, looking north-east towards ala on east side of atrium.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. 1927? Room 2, atrium, ala on east side. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher- “This photo was taken in the period (if I am not mistaken in 1927), when the modern trabeation was missing.
In the time of Overbeck-Mau the first reconstruction of the trabeation existed (see Overbeck-Mau, p.299).
See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.1.
(1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.85), p. 156.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani,
entitled Atrium in Pompeii.
Looking north-east across atrium towards room 6, east ala, in centre.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. October 2023.
Marble statue of half-naked Venus leaning against an idol. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
On display in “L’altra MANN” exhibition, October 2023, at Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 109620.
According to D’Acunto -
This was found in the lararium on the 19/02/1866.
See Marmora
Pompeiana nel Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli: Studi della SAP 26,
(p. 163, D05).
See Dwyer, E. J., 1982. Pompeian Domestic Sculpture: a Study of Five Pompeian Houses and their Contents. Roma: Bretschneider, tav.1, fig.202.
IX.1.20
Pompeii. October 2023.
Description
card for No.5, above. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Capitals on east side of atrium.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, east side of atrium.
Room 6, ala, with household shrine, 2 Ionic columns in opening, and figured capitals on either side.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 2, east side of atrium.
Figured capital from south-eastern corner of east ala 6, consisting of a bust above a band of acanthus (damaged).
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2017.
Room 2, east side of atrium, detail of capital on south side
of east ala 6.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, east side of atrium.
Figured capital from south-eastern corner of room 6, ala, consisting of a bust above a band of acanthus (damaged).
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019.
East ala 6, two Ionic column capitals.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, east side of atrium. Ionic column capital.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019. East ala 6, detail of Ionic column capital.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, east side of atrium. Ionic column capital.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2017. Looking north to capitals at
north end of east ala 6.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 2, east side of atrium.
Figured capital from north-eastern corner consisting of a bust above a band of acanthus (damaged).
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, east side of atrium.
Figured capital from north-eastern corner consisting of a bust above a band of acanthus (damaged).
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, north wall of ala.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, north wall of ala with remains of wall painting.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Room 6, wall painting on north wall of ala. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.
According to Warscher – “Nothing remains of the pictures on the east wall.
Instead there are painted traces on the north wall: architectural motives, that is a trabeation in the centre, and Cupids in the side panels.
These Cupids are omitted by Helbig.”
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, household shrine against east wall in ala.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, looking east towards household shrine in ala on east side.
According to the description from Boyce, the base was covered with stucco and painted in imitation of red and yellow marble.
Around the top of the base ran a red stripe. In the centre of the front was embedded a white marble slab with the inscription, below.
The lararium painting was done on the white background of the room walls, on both sides of the aedicula.
On the right side, two male figures, each clad in a long white garment like the toga, stood beside an altar.
On the left of the aedicula three men lead a bull to sacrifice; one leading the animal by a rope, the other two held him.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.79-80)
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (59b)
IX.1.20 Pompeii. 1903. Room 6, looking towards household shrine in ala on east side.
Photo by Esther Boise Van Deman (c) American Academy in Rome.
VD_Archive_Ph_219.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, east (rear) wall of aedicula.
![IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, marble plaque with inscription on household shrine in ala on east side. On the front of the podium is a dedicatory inscription “Genio M[ arci ] n[ostri ] et Laribus duo Diadumeni liberti”. “To the Genius of our Marcus and the Lares: (dedicated by) his two freedmen with the name of Diadumenus”. [CIL X 861 = ILS 3641]](9%2001%2020%20p3_files/image062.jpg)
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, marble plaque with inscription on household shrine in ala on east side.
On the front of the podium is a dedicatory inscription
“Genio M[ arci ]
n[ostri ] et Laribus duo Diadumeni liberti”.
“To the Genius of our Marcus and the Lares: (dedicated by) his two freedmen with the name of Diadumenus”.
[CIL X 861 = ILS 3641]
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, stucco cornice on south wall of ala, and remains of painted decoration.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, graffiti in plaster.
IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 2, looking west across impluvium
in atrium towards west ala 18, from east ala 6.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR
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