IX.3.13 Pompeii. Caupona and dwelling house of Fabius Celer.

Excavated 1870 and 1880.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance on vicolo, looking east.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Entrance doorway, looking north. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking north towards entrance. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. June 2005. Pilaster on west (left) of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

Front wall between IX.3.13 and IX.3.14. December 2007.

According to Della Corte, the name of the owner of the caupona was painted in an electoral recommendation to the right of the entrance:

A(ulum)  Vettium  Felicem

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  Fabius  celer  rog(at)    [CIL IV 3659]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.190)

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking towards west wall, and site of stairs to upper floor.

The white plaque is the name plaque for IX.3.14. 

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from entrance.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of caupona, with remains of stairs in north-west corner, and doorway to dwelling.

On the west wall, on the left, under the stairs would have been a lararium painting, now disappeared.

Luckily both Fiorelli and Sogliano wrote a good description.

Fiorelli told us that there was a Genius flanked by Lares, the caricature of a male head, and two gladiators in combat.

Sogliano reported that the painting was done in red monochrome on white plaster, and showed a Genius with patera and cornucopia, sacrificing at the altar in the middle of two Lares with rhyton and situla.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 146)

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.11)

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.83-4)

See Jacobelli, L., 2003. Gladiators at Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 82)

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance to atrium of dwelling.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Atrium, with remains of impluvium, and cistern.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Impluvium and cistern in atrium.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards south-west corner of atrium with hearth and bench against west wall.

Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail from south-west corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of hearth and bench in atrium.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. June 2005. Looking west to remains of hearth and bench in atrium. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. June 2005.

Looking towards west wall in atrium, with remains of hearth and bench. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north, doorway to triclinium, on left, and corridor to rear, on right.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across triclinium.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. North wall of triclinium.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of triclinium, with remains of plaster.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Corridor to rear, looking north.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Corridor to rear.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018.

Kitchen, looking towards south wall and south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Kitchen, detail from south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Kitchen, looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across kitchen, storeroom and latrine.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west in kitchen area, same view as above.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018.

Kitchen, looking towards north-west corner, and niche in north wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Niche in north wall.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. North wall of kitchen, in north-west corner, with niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. December 2018. Kitchen, niche on north wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

According to Boyce, in the kitchen behind the shop, in the north wall is an arched niche (h.0.45, w.0.45, d.0.20, h. above floor 1.05).

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.84, no.412).

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche on north wall.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche. Boyce calls this an arched niche.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.84, 412B)

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of terracotta puteal, in corner of kitchen area.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Terracotta puteal in kitchen area.

IX.3.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Sill at front of caupona, along the front of the vicolo.