I.7.12 Pompeii. Garden entrance to Casa dell’ Efebo or House of the Ephebus

or Domus P. Cornelius Tages.

Linked to I.7.10, I.7.11 and I.7.19.  Excavated 1912 and 1925.

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I.7.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west from entrance doorway.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway to kitchen and latrine on south side of entrance doorway.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Kitchen hearth.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Latrine in kitchen area.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006.

Looking south into doorway to cubiculum on west side of kitchen.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. South wall of cubiculum, with window onto garden.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. East wall of cubiculum.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of cubiculum, with doorway.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006.

West wall of cubiculum, with ancient hole through the wall, into the garden area.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006.

Room or area to north of entrance I.7.12, with cistern mouth and steps to upper floor against east wall (on the right).

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006.

Looking west from entrance towards area of the west wall of the north portico (with niche).

On the left from the north portico is the garden area with summer triclinium.

On the right from the north portico is the area of the house seen in I.7.11 and I.7.10.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. West wall of north portico.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. West wall of north portico, showing arched niche when first excavated.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Arched niche.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico.  Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.254)

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower area of west wall beneath niche.

 

I.7.12 Pompeii. December 2006. Wall painting on west wall of water tower, opposite the entrance.

According to Jashemski, “The large pillar at the west end of the lower part of the portico, camouflaged by a large painting of Mars and Venus, was actually a castellum aquae which had inserted in its top a reservoir (lined with good signinum) of a three-cubic-meter capacity.

The water collected from the roof of the triclinium and the portico provided for the fountains, the elevation making possible the jets.

The construction of the castellum aquae obstructed the view of the fine shrine, one of the best preserved at Pompeii”.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.40)

 

 

 

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