IX.3.15 Pompeii. House of Philocalus.
Excavated 1871.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, garden area, looking north-east. According to Jashemski,
“The garden at the rear originally was enclosed on the north, west and south, by a portico supported by eight stuccoed brick columns and two engaged columns which were joined by a low wall, broken by an entrance to the garden on the south.”
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.234, no.481).
IX.3.15 Pompeii. 1966. Room 12, garden area, looking north-east. 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.3.15 Pompeii. 1966. Room 12, looking towards south-west corner of garden area and doorway onto south portico.
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.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, east wall of garden area.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, north wall of garden area.
According to Jashemski – “Later, part of the north portico was closed in to make a windowed triclinium”.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, east wall with aedicula lararium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, aedicula lararium.
According to Boyce, the base contained a large rectangular recess, coated with white stucco.
Above it the thick side walls and the rear wall of the room formed a rectangular niche.
In the back wall of the rectangular niche was a semi-circular recess.
The interior was decorated with red spots on a white background.
The tympanum was blue. There were red stripes dividing the exterior of the structure into sections.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 84, 414, Pl. 34, 1)
IX.3.15 Pompeii. Pre-1937. Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Room 12, aedicula lararium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, south side of aedicula lararium showing remains of red stripes.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 12. East rear wall, inside of niche of lararium painted with red dots, presumably flowers?
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12. North side of niche of lararium, decorated inside with red paintings.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12. South side of niche of lararium decorated inside with red paintings.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. 1966.
Room 12. South side of niche of lararium decorated inside with red paintings. 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.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, below the aedicula lararium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, north side of aedicula lararium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, remains of pediment of lararium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, north wall, looking west.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, south side with gutter around edge of garden.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, west side with gutter around edge of garden.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, west portico area, looking north.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, kitchen area in north-west corner of portico, with latrine.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, kitchen in north-west corner of portico, with latrine.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, north-west corner of portico, downpipe on west wall.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, kitchen in north-west corner of portico.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, kitchen in north-west corner of portico, with latrine.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, small room or storeroom. Looking east from kitchen area.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 13, looking north.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, west wall in north-west corner of portico.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 14 from north portico area.
On the right is one of the peristyle columns with a lava Doric capital.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium, with window overlooking garden.
This room was decorated with a high zoccolo/plinth of cocciopesto with a white middle zone to the walls.
On the right, the brick peristyle column can be seen, bricked into the wall.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, east wall of triclinium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, west wall of triclinium.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, south wall of triclinium, overlooking garden through remains of window.
According to Jashemski, “Later part of the north portico was closed in to make a windowed triclinium”.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.234, no.481).
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium in north-east corner of garden, with gutter along north wall of garden.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, garden area, recess in north wall, and looking south along west side.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 12, looking south along west portico towards front of house.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, corridor, looking north to west portico.
IX.3.15 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along portico, overlooked by Vesuvius.