IX.7.4 Pompeii. Shop. Partly excavated 1912.

IX.7.4 Pompeii. May 2024. Looking north to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.4 Pompeii. October 2023. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.4 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking north to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.4 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway.

IX.7.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Graffito to the left of the entrance.

According to Della Corte, we do not know what industry or commerce was carried on here, but Sergio Felice worked here.

On the pilaster to the left of the entrance, the graffitied recommendation can still be read –

Sergius Felix rog(at)  [CIL IV 7829] with note 2, which said that this was the first epigraph testimonial found for the Pompeiani family of Sergia.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.281)

According to Varone and Stefani, graffiti CIL IV 7829 and 7830 were found on the west of the entrance.

Only part of CIL IV 7829 is conserved.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.394-5)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), they read as –

A(ulum)  Vettium

/

Firmum  aed(ilem)

o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  dig(num)  est

Sergius  Felix  rog(at)       [CIL IV 7829]

Caplam  IIv(irum)       [CIL IV 7830]

IX.7.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Facade under restoration.