IX.2.6 Pompeii. Shop and dwelling.

Excavated 1848 and 1851. (Strada Stabiana 54).

IX.2.6 Pompeii, on left. August 2023.

Looking towards doorways on east side of Via Stabiana, with IX.2.7, on right. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.

IX.2.6 Pompeii, on left. March 2018. Looking south along east side of Via Stabiana.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking east to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east to entrance on Via Stabiana.

In January 1848, found painted on the pilaster to the right, between IX.2.6 and IX.2.7, was

P(ublium)  Vedium  Nummianum

aed(ilem)  Hilario  cum  sua  rogat    [CIL IV 913]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p. 164)

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of shop.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across shop to rear rooms.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Small room or kitchen in north-east corner.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east towards the triclinium?

According to Boyce, in 1937 on the west wall of this rear room was a fragment of a panel of white stucco bordered in red.

On this stucco was painted a single red serpent coiling among plants.

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

IX.2.6 Pompeii. Pre-1943. Photo by Tatiana Warscher.

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli –

In a rear room (b), on the west wall, is a fragmentary panel of white stucco bordered in red, on which is painted a single red serpent coiling among plants.

See Warscher, T. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus, IX.2. (1943), Swedish Institute, Rome. (no.15a.), p. 39.

Boyce records:

391

IX, ii, 6

Taberna. 1n a rear room, on the W. wall, is a fragmentary panel of white stucco bordered in red, on which is painted a single red serpent coiling among plants.

FIORELLI, Scavi, 55.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of shop. Looking towards small room or kitchen.

In front of the doorway to the small room would have been the stairs to the upper floor.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance sill for small doorway.

IX.2.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance threshold or sill.

IX.2.6 Pompeii, on left. May 2005.                             Plaque in pilaster.                                    IX.2.7, on right.

IX.2.6 Pompeii, on left, and IX.2.7, on right. December 2018.

Plaque on pilaster between entrances. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Plaque on pilaster between IX.2.6 Pompeii and IX.2.7. September 2005.

Plaque with phallus on pilaster between IX.2.6 Pompeii and IX.2.7. December 2018. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Plaque with phallus between IX.2.6 Pompeii and IX.2.7. September 2005.