Pompeii Street View. Vicolo dei Dodici Dei. North to South.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, May 2010. Looking south between VIII.5 and VIII.3 from junction of Via dell’Abbondanza.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei between VIII.5 and VIII.3, west side with remains of painted street shrine. December 2006.

Looking south from Via Dell’Abbondanza.

Vicolo dei 12 Dei, Pompeii. October 2020.

Looking south from junction with Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei between VIII.5 and VIII.3. September 2005. Looking south.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, May 2010. Looking south near VIII.3.12.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei. September 2005. Looking south from VIII.3.13.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, Pompeii. 1980.

Looking south to junction with Vicolo della Parete Rossa, and water tower/castle on corner of VIII.5.

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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Vicolo dei Dodici Dei. April 2018. Looking south between VIII.5 and VIII.3. The junction with Vicolo della Parete Rossa, is seen on the left.

Photo courtesy of Ian Lycett-King. Use is subject to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License v.4 International.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, May 2010. Looking south between VIII.5 and VIII.3.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei between VIII.3 and VIII.5. October 2020.

Looking north from junction with Vicolo delle Pareti Rosse. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, May 2010. Looking north to Via dell’Abbondanza.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei between VIII.3 and VIII.5. September 2005. Looking north from junction with Vicolo delle Pareti Rosse.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, east side, May 2010. Looking north along VIII.6.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, east side. September 2005. Looking north from VIII.6.11.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei. May 2010.  Looking north between VIII.3 and VIII.6.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, May 2005.  May 2005. Looking north between VIII.3 and VIII.6, from near junction with Vicolo della Regina.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, west side, May 2010. Looking north at VIII.3.14, near junction.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, west side, May 2010. Looking north at VIII.3.14, near junction.

Vicolo dei Dodici Dei, December 2004. Looking north between VIII.3 and VIII.6, from junction with Vicolo della Regina.

Vicolo della Regina between VIII.2 and VIII.3 (on left). December 2004.

Looking west. The junction of Vicolo dei Dodici Dei is on the right.

Vicolo della Regina between VIII.6 and VIII.2. December 2004. Looking east from junction with Vicolo dei Dodici Dei.

Mystery wall painting

(Also entered on website in Via dell’Abbondanza, pt.2, and VIII.5.28 pt.5).

Painted wall of a mystery house – too pretty and unusual not to be included somewhere.

(If anyone can help place this wall into a house, please get in touch).

Painting by Zahn, pre- 1842, of a wall in a house situated somewhere along VIII.5 or could even be in VII.13 on the opposite side of the roadway.  

According to Zahn, this wall was to be found in a house in the Strada de’ Mercadanti between the Vicolo dei Dodici (12) Dei and VIII.5.28.

(His wording –

No.44. Paroi d’une maison de la Strada de’ Mercadanti a Pompei, de couleur originale.

Cette paroi se trouve entre le Vico de’ dodici Dei et la Casa dell’Imperatore Francesco secondo.)

See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 44.

Drawings of cupids by Gell, from

VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832 sketch by W. Gell, described by him as –

“In the houses of Fuscus and in a green chamber in Street of the Forum.”

See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 51.

Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique Num MS180 (2).

See book in INHA Use Etalab Licence Ouverte

(Note: Via dell’Abbondanza, Strada de’ Mercadanti and Street of the Forum, are all names for the same roadway.

Although no cupids can be seen on the above “green wall”, surely they must be from the same room.

These cupids must have been seen by Gell before 1832).

Plan in BdI, 1883, p.170, showing Reg. VIII. Insula 5, at the top.

Reg VIII. Insula 6 is shown in the lower plan.

According to BdI –

The front parts of the houses which flank Via dell’Abbondanza (on north side of the insula), had already been excavated for a long time, and are described by Fiorelli in his Descrizione, (p.446 following).

We start from the north-west corner, following the Via dell’Abbondanza.

(Le parti anteriori delle case che fiancheggiano la strada dell’Abbondanza (lato N dell’isola), già erano scavate da molto tempo, e sono descritte dal Fiorelli. Descr. (p.446 sgg). Noi cominciamo dall’angolo NO, seguendo prima la strada dell’Abbondanza.)

(We assume the new rooms excavated are numbered, those without a number would have been excavated from earlier.)

According to Eschebach –

VIII.5.1 – excavated 1819; VIII.5.17/20 – excavated 1819; VIII.5.18/19 – excavated 1813? and 1819; VIII.5.21 – excavated 1813.

VIII.5.22/23 – excavated 1813; VIII.5.28/29 – excavated 1815, 1819, 1826, 1838.

VII.13.1/25 – excavated 1818; VII.13.2 - excavated 1818; VII.13.5 – excavated 1818; VII.13.6 – excavated 1818; VII.13.7 – excavated 1819.

VII.13.8/14 – excavated 1819.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1883, p. 170.