V.2.15 Pompeii. House of Jupiter.

Linked to V.2.16. Excavated 1883 and 1891/93.

 

Including garden area at rear of house, possibly the peristyle belonging to the unexcavated house south of V.2.i House of the Silver Wedding?

The Notizie degli Scavi refers to a passage leading to a second peristyle.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1894, page 439.

 

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V.2.15 Pompeii.or un-numbered house?  December 2007. Room 11c, peristyle.

The Notizie degli Scavi refers to a passage leading to a second peristyle.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1894, page 439.

 

V.2.15 Pompeii. Old undated photograph. North wall. Lararium.

The Notizie degli Scavi records a panel of white stucco.

On this is painted and aedicula, which Boyce says is painted in blue, yellow, dark red and green.

Within the aedicula is a painting of Giove (Jupiter) seated on a throne.

Underneath is a masonry altar covered with white plaster.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1894, p. 439.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (96, p.35, Pl 39,3).

 

V.2.15 Pompeii. Old undated photograph. North wall. Remains of central painting in lararium.

Giove (Jupiter) sits on a throne, his lower body covered with a green robe.

The sceptre is in the left hand, leaning on the arm of the throne.

The lightning bolt is in his outstretched right hand and the eagle at his feet.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1894, p. 439.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007.  

Room 11c, peristyle looking north-east into unexcavated area.

 

V.2.15 Pompeii. Late 19^th century photograph showing excavation.

Looking south from south-east corner of V.2.i, across the peristyle garden of V.2.15, towards the rear of the Casina dell’Aquila in the distance.

In the centre front, the second style decoration on south wall of Corinthian oecus, room 21 of The House of the Silver Wedding at V.2.i can be seen.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007.  

Room 11c, peristyle with stone puteal.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007.  

Room 11d, corridor and doorway to room 11e.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007.  

Room 11d, niches.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11d, rectangular niche.

According to Boyce, Mau described this as a lararium. 

The walls were coated with white stucco, and in the floor were three holes for the bases of statuettes.

The walls around the niche were covered with the same white stucco. 

In the wall below, a semicircular receptacle of terracotta was embedded in the floor of an arched niche. 

In the bottom of the terracotta was a round hole, as if for drainage, which suggested a connection with the water supply.

Today, there is not much remaining.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (no.97 on p. 35)

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house? Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 11d, arched niche below rectangular niche.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11e.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007.  Room 11e.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house? Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11e, niche on east wall.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007. Room 11e, south wall.

 

V.2.15 or un-numbered house?  Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 11d, corridor.

 

V.2.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Wall between room 10 and room 9.

 

V.2.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Wall between room 10 and room 9.

 

 

 

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