IX.7.5 Pompeii. Workshop of Verecundus.

Linked to IX.7.6 and IX.7.7. Partly excavated 1912.

IX.7.7 Pompeii, on left, IX.7.6, in centre, and IX.7.5, on right. December 2018. Looking north towards entrances. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance to workshop.

The felt workers or coactiliarii produced cloth by rubbing and pressing hare pelts or “dead” wool.

The cloth was treated with coagulants made using boiled vinegar.

Their work is depicted in a painting at the entrance to the workshops of Verecundus, which also made rather expensive clothing.

A graffito found there mentions a tunica lintea aurata, (CIL IV 9083).

This was a garment made of linen with inserts made of spun gold.

See Panetta, M.R. (2004). Pompeii, the history, life and art of the buried city. Italy, White Star Publishers, (p.169)

IX.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. House entrance on left, with workshop of Verecundus on right.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. October 2023.

Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus, on right (east) side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. June 2012. Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. October 2023.

Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus on east side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. June 2012. Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. October 2023.

Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus on east (right) side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) CIL IV records this as two entries

Cn(aeum)  Helvium

Sabinum    [CIL IV 7831]

Popidium

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 7832]

Also see Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p. 398).

IX.7.5 Pompeii. October 2023. Graffiti on north wall at east (right) side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffito outside workshop of Verecundus.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) CIL IV records this as -

A(ulum)  Suet

tium

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)     [CIL IV 7834]

Also see Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p. 399).

IX.7.5 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti outside workshop of Verecundus, found on the left of the doorway between IX.7.6 and IX.7.5 -

According to Varone and Stefani, there were three inscriptions here.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p. 399).

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) CIL IV records these as -

Nummian//u/m

aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)     [CIL IV 7835]

P(ublium)  Paquium

Proculum

et A(ulum) Vettium

Feli[cem         [CIL IV 7836]

Suettium

Certum

[                        [CIL IV 7837]