V.4.13 Pompeii. Domus of M Fabius Secundus and Optata

or Casa delle origine di Roma.

Linked to V.4.12. Excavated 1873, 1899 and 1903.

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V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Second diaeta on south side. South wall.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Second diaeta on south side. Painted plaster on south wall.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Diaeta. Looking north-west across garden.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden, looking south-west.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden, terracotta puteal.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden, south wall.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden, south-east corner.

Looking east into diaeta across remains of gutter.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden, north-west corner.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium niche in north-west corner of garden.

According to Boyce, on the north side of the garden was a section coated with white stucco and marked off as a panel with broad red stripes.

In it was set a large arched niche.

The corners within the arch were outlined in red, as was the shape of the niche on the surrounding wall.

The rear wall was painted blue, studded with red and yellow spots and yellow stars with red centres.

On the ground before the niche stood a masonry altar covered in stucco.

The altar had a rectangular hollow in its upper surface. In this hollow, traces of burning were seen by the excavators.

Around the corner from this niche, on the west wall of the open area which preceded the garden on the north, was a broad sheet of white plaster.

On this plaster were painted two yellow serpents near a cylindrical altar with fruit, in the background were plants.

In the floor below this painting were the marks left by a square masonry altar.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.42, no.126, Pl. 11,2)

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009.

Lararium niche in north-west corner of garden. Site of masonry altar.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p. 268).

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009.

Lararium niche in north-west corner of garden. Painted plaster below niche.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009.

Lararium niche in north-west corner of garden. Detail of east side.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium niche in north- west corner of garden.

Remains of painting in niche. Detail of west side.

The niche was painted with red and yellow stylised flowers and yellow stars with red centres.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p. 268).

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden on the west side of the niche.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east along south wall from garden area.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west along south wall, from V.4.12.

 

V.4.13 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking south along Via dei Gladiatori from entrance of V.4.13.

 

 

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