IX.2.5 Pompeii. Shop and dwelling.

Excavated 1849 and 1851. (Strada Stabiana 52).

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking east on Via Stabiana towards entrance to shop and dwelling at rear. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance to shop, and to dwelling at rear.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. 1966. Looking east to entrance doorway 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.2.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943.

Looking east to entrance doorway on Via Stabiana. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.9), p. 16.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. South wall of shop.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from shop towards rear.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across shop towards triclinium and corridor to rear.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Doorway to triclinium, looking towards north-east corner, and window to garden in east wall.

In this room, the zoccolo would have been black, the central panel on the walls was red, the side panels were yellow.

According to Sogliano, the paintings found in this room were –

Ariadne abandoned (p.97, no.535),

A bust of Paris wearing a green hat, with cupid on his right shoulder (p.105, no.558),

A bust of Helen, turning to the left, in response to no.558, faded and vanishing (p.108, no.567),

Cimone and Perona (p. 121, no. 599). Now in Naples Museum, inventory number 115398.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of triclinium.

On the north wall was a painting of Ariadne seated on the ground watching the ship of Theseus sailing away.

Nemesis is at her shoulders and Cupid is turned towards her, holding his bow and wiping away his tears.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.97, no.535).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 141).

See Trendelenburg in BdI, 1871, (p.205-6).

IX.2.5 Pompeii. 1886. Painting of north wall of triclinium.

In the centre is the painting of Ariadne seated on the ground watching the ship of Theseus sailing away.

Nemesis is at her shoulders and Cupid is turned towards her, holding his bow and wiping away his tears.

See D’Amelio P., 1886. Dipinti Murali di Pompei. Naples: Richter. Pl. V.

According to PPM this wall was not drawn completely faithful in some of its particulars.

See Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici, Vol. VIII, Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 1055.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. Centre of north wall of triclinium. Painting of Ariadne abandoned.

DAIR 31.1744. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. Drawing by Nicola La Volpe, 1870, of painting from the centre of north wall of triclinium.

Ariadne seated on the ground watching the ship of Theseus sailing away.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 969.

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IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

North wall, painted decoration on east side of central panel. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Painted decoration on north wall of triclinium. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.12), p. 25.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

North wall, detail of painted face from east side of central panel. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. North wall of triclinium.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. W.353. North wall of triclinium, remains of wall decorations on wall and cornice.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of triclinium.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards east wall of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking through window in east wall of triclinium towards garden area, and niche in north wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Triclinium, window in east wall, overlooking garden.

In the middle of the yellow side panels were medallions, but it is no longer possible to determine their identity.

Sogliano identified one of Paris with a cupid, and the other of Helen, but that was nearly vanished.

He did not give their location in the room.

A bust of Paris wearing a green hat, with cupid on his right shoulder (p.105, no.558),

A bust of Helen without a veil, turning to the left, in response to no.558, faded and vanishing (p.108, no.567).

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini.

According to PPP, there would have been medallions in all of the side panels of the walls, mostly undistinguishable when found.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.406).

According to Fiorelli,

A bust of Paris was also found here, with crook on one shoulder and a cupid on the other caressing his chin; and also a veiled Helen.

Another two busts similar to the previous were seen, of a crowned poet and of a writer, both enclosed in a medallion, as well as four landscapes of countryside or marine.

See Fiorelli, G, (1875). Descrizione di Pompeii (p.379).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.141).

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. East wall of triclinium, and south-east corner.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943.

Looking towards window in east wall, on either side of which was a painted medallion. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.14.), p. 35.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking towards south wall of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium and south-west corner.

There would also have been a medallion in the panel on either side of the doorway.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Central panel from south wall of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Triclinium, detail from painted panel on west side of central panel on south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Triclinium, looking towards south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium.

On this wall was a painting of Perona presenting the breast to her aged father Cymon (Micone), condemned to die of hunger in prison. 

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p. 406).

See Trendelenburg in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1871, (p.205-6)

See Giornale degli Scavi, N.S.2, tav III.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium.

Painting of Perona presenting the breast to her aged father Cymon (Micone), condemned to die of hunger in prison. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 115398.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.121 no.599).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 141).

IX.2.5 Pompeii. Drawing by Nicola La Volpe, 1870, of painting of Perone and Cymon from south wall of triclinium.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 970.

Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Triclinium floor, the floor was in simple cocciopesto with scattered white limestone flakes.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from corridor towards garden.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Garden area, looking towards north wall with niche, and east wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Niche in north wall of garden area. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2018.

Detail of niche in north wall of garden area. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.5 Pompeii.  December 2005. Niche lararium in north wall of garden.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche lararium in north wall of garden.

According to Boyce, this square niche was called la nicchia de’ Penati, by Fiorelli.

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

IX.2.5 Pompeii. Pre-1943. North wall of garden with niche lararium. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.15.), p. 36.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking towards east wall of garden, with doorway to cubiculum in south wall.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. 1966. South wall of garden area, with doorway and window to cubiculum. 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.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. East wall of cubiculum in south-east corner of garden.

This wall had a black zoccolo, the middle red panel was separated from the yellow side panels by narrow compartments.

It was framed by borders with arches, there were vignettes in the yellow side panels, but they had almost faded and disappeared.

In the yellow panel on the left, a sphinx or perhaps a lion can just be seen, on the right, perhaps a flying Pegasus.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.407).

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. East wall of cubiculum in south-east corner of garden. 

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Stairs against south wall of narrow passageway. 

The first three steps were masonry and would have been topped with wooden steps.

The latrine was under the stairs, there was possibly a hearth nearby.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore, (p.141).

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west from garden.

IX.2.5 Pompeii. December 2005. West wall of garden with window to triclinium and corridor to shop at front.