IX.12.1 Pompeii. House of the First Cenaculum or Casa dei Cenacoli colonnati, with Textrina of Rufus.

Linked to IX.12.2. Excavated 1912.

IX.12.1-5 Pompeii. Plan of lower floor and entrances after Spinazzola.

See Spinazzola V., 1953. Pompei alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (anni 1910-1923). Roma: La Libreria della Stato, fig. 680.

IX.12.1-5 Pompeii. Plan of upper floor after Spinazzola.

See Spinazzola V., 1953. Pompei alla luce degli Scavi Nuovi di Via dell’Abbondanza (anni 1910-1923). Roma: La Libreria della Stato, fig. 686, p. 716.

Via dell’Abbondanza, Pompeii. June 2024.

Looking east along north side with IX.11.6/7/8 on left, IX.12, on right. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, in centre. May 2024. Looking north-east to front façade of the insula IX.12. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, in centre. October 2022. Looking north-east to front façade of the insula IX.12. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, in centre. September 2021. Looking north-east to front façade of the insula IX.12. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, in centre. October 2020. Looking east on Via dell’ Abbondanza, during the year of the pandemic.

IX.11.7, and roadway between IX.11 and IX.12, on left. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. Looking east on Via dell’ Abbondanza. January 2010. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. 1932, looking east on Via dell’ Abbondanza.

Photo taken during a shore-visit from the ship Resolute’s world cruise in 1932. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

(Note: the upper floor side balcony reconstruction is visible, left of centre.)

IX.12.1, IX.12.2, IX.12.3, IX.12.4, IX.12.5 Pompeii. December 2005. Façade including the side balcony on left.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. October 1943. Looking east between IX.12 and I.8 on Via dell’Abbondanza.

Picture that according to the newspaper report “shows what the RAF found after bombing.....”.

The destroyed Houses of the Cenacoli Colonnati, following the aerial bombardment of 1943.  Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

The left pilaster of the front façade of IX.12.1 can be seen on the left.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, centre left. Undated photographic postcard.

Looking north across Via dell’Abbondanza, with unnamed Vicolo, on left below balcony, IX.12.1, IX.12.2, IX.12.3, IX.12.4, and IX.12.5 on right.

Photo courtesy of Espen B. Andersson

IX.12.1, IX.12.2, IX.12.3, IX.12.4, IX.12.5 Pompeii. Facade.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

IX.12.1, IX.12.2, IX.12.3, IX.12.4, IX.12.5 Pompeii. Facade. 1959. 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.12.1 and IX.12.2 Pompeii. June 2024.

Looking north towards entrance doorways. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.12.1, in centre, and IX.12.2, on right. Pompeii. October 2023. Looking north to upper room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, on left, and IX.12.2, on right. December 2018.

Looking north to entrance doorways on Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, centre left, and IX.12.2, centre right. March 2018.

Looking north-west to entrance doorways and upper floor.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, centre left, and IX.12.2, centre right. March 2018. Looking north-west to entrance doorways.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, left, and IX.12.2, centre. March 2018. Looking north-east to entrance doorways.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

According to Varone and Stefani, found on the pilaster on the left of the entrance doorway was CIL IV 7892.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.442 etc)

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

Sittium  IIvir(um)

Magnum  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7892]

IX.12.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance with columns above.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. 1912. Excavation of the upper floor, with the remains of the side balcony, hanging over the small roadway, (on left). and the area of the three windows of the cenaculum, overlooking the Via dell’Abbondanza, (centre and right).

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1912, p. 64-5, and fig.3.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. December 2018.

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

IX.12.1 Pompeii. June 2024.

Looking north through entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking north to entrance behind glass front.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, May 2018.

Looking north from entrance doorway towards rear of workshop room, with two doorways to rear rooms. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, May 2018. Looking north from entrance doorway into rear rooms. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.12.1 Pompeii, May 2018. Looking towards north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

On the north side of the rear rooms would have been another room, which would have been reached from IX.12.4.

IX.12.2 and IX.12.1 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south.

IX.12.2 Pompeii, stairs to upper floor, on left, and IX.12.1, in centre. May 2010. Looking south from above rear rooms.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. Small graffiti inscription found on west wall of workshop. Pridie Nonis Julis tunica IIS XV.

According to Della Corte, found on the west wall of the workshop, possibly of a weaver/draper, was CIL IV 9108.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.321)

Also see Della Corte ,

 “La rinnovata ripulitura delle pareti ha fatto scoprire anche in questa bottega – parete occidentale – una piccola iscrizione graffita, relativa all’acquisto (?) di una tunica.”.

Cioè: Pridie Nonis Julis, tunica IIS XV.

(trans. The renewed cleaning of the walls had exposed, also in this shop on the west wall, a small graffitied inscription, relative to the buying of a tunic.

This read: Pridie Nonis Julis, tunica IIS XV.”)

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1913, p.83.

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

Prid(ie)  Nonis(!)

Iuli(i)s  tunica

<HS=SH> XV        [CIL IV 9108]

According to Cooley, this translated as –

6 July. Tunic 15 sesterces.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.178).

Both agreed this graffito related to textile production and trade, and the price paid for the tunic.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. February 2017. Looking west from IX.12.4, towards rear room. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

IX.12.2 Pompeii, on left, doorway to stairs to upper floor, with IX.12.1, entrance in centre. February 2017.

Looking south across Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

IX.12.2 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to stairs to upper floor, on left, and IX.12.1, in centre.

Looking south towards and across Via dell’Abbondanza.

IX.12.1/2 Pompeii. February 2017. Looking south from upper floor. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

IX.12.1/2 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south across Regio 1 from upper floor.

IX.12.5, IX.12.4, IX.12.3, IX.12.2 and IX.12.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Taken from the rear, looking south.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Upper floor with columns.

IX.12.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Upper floor with columns.

Unnamed roadway between IX.11.8 and IX.12.1 (on right) on north side of Via dell’Abbondanza. June 2024.

Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

IX.11 Pompeii, on left. December 2005.           Unnamed vicolo looking north.        IX.12, on right with balcony of IX.12.1.

IX.11 Pompeii, on left, May 2018.    Unnamed vicolo, looking north.              IX.12 on right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

IX.11 Pompeii, left. December 2006.     Unnamed vicolo looking north.                                                IX.12 right.

IX.12 Pompeii. Amphora found in the vicolo to the west of the House of the Chaste Lovers.

Parco Archeologico di Pompei inventory number 88031.