I.9.13 Pompeii. Casa di Cerere. Linked to I.9.14. Excavated 1951.

 

The entrance at I.9.13 is blocked by the cast of the ancient door.

We entered and photographed this house by starting at I.9.14 and working from the rear. 

The combined photographs can be found on the page for I.9.14   

 

Combined photographs of I.9.13 and I.9.14      Combined room plan (Opens in a separate window)

 

I.9.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Blocked entrance.

 

I.9.13 Pompeii. September 2005. Atrium.

 

I.9.13 Pompeii. September 2005.     Via di Castricio, looking east.                 I.17

 

I.9.13 Pompeii. September 2005.          Via di Castricio looking east. 

                  

Via di Castricio looking west. September 2005.          I.9.13

 

Via di Castricio looking west. September 2005.          I.9.13 on the right.

According to Della Corte, found on the south façade on 27th September 1951, painted in red and black, was an Edictum munerum -

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.341)

 

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

 

]R[3]

glad(iatorum)  pa[r(ia) 3]

L(uci)  Valeri  Primi  Augustalis  pugn(abunt)  Pomp[eis IV]  III [pr(idie) 3]

Februarias  venatio  m(a)tutin[a et vela erunt]           [CIL IV 9962]  

 

According to Cooley, this graffito was found on the right side of the entrance at I.IX.13 (between 13 and 12), and translates as –

(….) pairs of gladiators of Lucius Valerius Primus, imperial priest (Augustalis), will fight at Pompeii on the (…) February: there will be a hunt in the morning……

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.52)

 

 

 

 

Combined photographs of I.9.13 and I.9.14      Combined room plan (Opens in a separate window)