VI.2.22 Pompeii. House of M. Pupius or Casa di Apollo or Casa delle Danzatrici.

Linked to VI.2.15. Excavated 1811, 1818, 1840.

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VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance  fauces or corridor.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Floor decoration in fauces.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. Wall painting of the elderly satyr Silenus embracing a beautiful maenad.

SAP 17713. (Originally part of a larger wall panel).

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010.

Looking east from rear entrance at VI.2.15 in Vicolo di Narciso.

Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west across impluvium.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across atrium and impluvium to entrance.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010.

Looking east from atrium, towards entrance at VI.2.22 and doorways to cubicula on either side.

Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration. North wall of atrium?

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south towards south wall of atrium.

Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south towards south wall of tablinum, on the left.

On the right, can be seen the south wall of the east portico of the peristyle.

Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration on south wall of tablinum.

According to Helbig, a wall painting of Meleager and Atalanta was found in the tablinum.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1164)

Schefold shows a black-and-white photo of the painting of Meleager and Atalanta on picture 169,3.

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (p,167 and picture 169,3)

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Floor decoration.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking east from peristyle, through corridor and tablinum to atrium.

Model as viewed in Naples Archaeological Museum.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration.

                                         

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration.

 

VI.2.22 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted wall decoration.

 

 

 

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