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V.4.c Pompeii. House of M. Samellius Modestus or Casa degli Ori.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance.

According to Cooley, the following graffito was found here -

I beg you to elect Cn. Helvius Sabinus and M. Samellius Modestus aediles, worthy of public office. [CIL IV 6628]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.124, F70)

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

Cn(aeum) Helvium Sabinum et

M(arcum) Samellium Modestum aed(iles) d(ignos) r(ei) p(ublicae) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) [CIL IV 6628]

According to Della Corte, CIL IV 6627 was found on the north side (left) of the entrance.

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.109)

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

M(arcum) Samellium Modestum, aed(ilem)

v(iis) a(edibus) s(acris) p(ublicis) p(rocurandis) d(ignum) r(ei) p(ublicae) Vicini rogant [CIL IV 6627]

V.4.c Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across atrium to tablinum.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking east across atrium to doorways to andron to garden, tablinum, and cubiculum.

V.4.c Pompeii. May 2005. Doorways to andron, tablinum and cubiculum.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009.

Anteroom to large triclinium (doorway on right), in north-west corner of atrium.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Large triclinium, looking east.

V.4.c Pompeii. May 2005. Large triclinium, looking west from atrium.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across atrium.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. North side of atrium.

Wall of triclinium, doorway to ala, and cubiculum.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Ala on north side of atrium.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Andron to garden area.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east from the end of the andron, into the garden area.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Triclinium on the north side of the garden area.

V.4.c Pompeii. March 2009. Niche lararium on east wall of the garden.

According to Boyce, this niche was placed at the east end of the corridor leading from the atrium.

The arched niche had a heavy ledge projecting from the wall.

Upon this ledge was placed an ordinary roof tile, the raised edges of which, when covered with stucco would look like an altar.

The rear wall was painted blue or green, and painted with plants.

Boyce was not sure if this was a Lararium, but he thought as there was no other Lararium in the house, it may possibly have been one.

He said that Sogliano attached religious importance to a painting of Mercury found on the east wall of the atrium.

See Not. Scavi, 1905, 131.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.(p.42, no.130, Pl. 3,1)

In a note on page 42, Boyce added that a collection of items were found, perhaps, gathered together for flight.

Included were a glazed terracotta statuette of Harpocrates and a small terracotta altar.

See Rom. Mitt., xvi, 1901, 364.

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