IX.1.26 Pompeii. Casa del Sodoma Gomora.

Linked to IX.1.25. Excavated 1858 and 1869.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. 1961.

Looking north through entrance doorway, when it was a “Direzione” office. 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.1.26 Pompeii. 1961. Wilhelmina and friends in entrance corridor. 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.1.26 Pompeii. 1961. Wilhelmina and friends in entrance corridor. 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.1.26 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

According to Fiorelli, the atrium was found at the end of the entrance corridor, but without an impluvium.

At the side was a cubiculum, followed by a triclinium decorated with various paintings of fish, birds and landscapes.

Opposite was another cubiculum which was next to a small garden area from where the next room took its light, containing the stairs to the upper rooms and adjacent to the kitchen, the lararium preserved only the figures of the two serpents approaching the prepared altar.

Found in the atrium was the graffiti - STRONIVS

                                                                     STRONNIVS

                                                                     NIL SCIT

See Fiorelli, G. (1875). Descrizione di Pompei, (p.376)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.140)

IX.1.26 Pompeii. December 2004. East wall of entrance corridor.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north from entrance corridor across atrium.

On the left would have been a cubiculum and also the triclinium, where the graffito SODOM(A)  GOMORA  [CIL IV 4976] was found. 

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.110)

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.141)

See Dobbins, J & Foss, P., 2008. The World of Pompeii. New York: Routledge. (p.195)

In the centre of the photo is the site of the kitchen and steps to upper floor.

According to Boyce, in the kitchen was a lararium painting, but when excavated only the two serpents beside an altar remained.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.80)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.140)

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli, (p.18, no.52)

IX.1.26 Pompeii. Triclinium on the left side of the atrium, left wall.

According to Mau, the inscription Sodoma Gomora was found in this triclinium.

It was inscribed in large letters in charcoal on the left wall.

SODOMA

GOMORA      [CIL IV 4976]

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 114323.

See Mau in BdI, 1885, (p.97)

See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Vol. IV, Supp 2, Part 2, 1909. Berlin: Reimer, p. 568.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north-east across the atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north across the atrium towards the site of the light-yard and a cubiculum.

IX.1.26 Pompeii. Inscription found on the left atrium wall, as shown in CIL IV.

According to Fiorelli in the atrium, he could read

STRONIVS

STRONNIVS

NIL SCIT     [CIL IV 2409]

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.140)

See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Vol. IV, 1871. Berlin: Reimer, p. 152.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this read

Stronius

Stronnius

ni(hi)l scit      [CIL IV 2409a]