VI.5.3 Pompeii. Casa di Nettuno or House of Neptune.

Linked to VI.5.1, VI.5.2 and VI.5.22. Excavated 1843.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south-west across room 19. 

According to Fiorelli, this area had another three smaller rooms, preceeded by an area with a lean-to roof.

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, doorway to room at eastern end. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, doorway to room in centre. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, doorway to room at western end. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across room 19. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west across room 19. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 19, western end on left, and doorway to kitchen area on right, leading to atrium area at front of house.

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii.  December 2007.

Looking west from the corridor of room 7 across the south side of atrium to doorway to room 20. 

According to Breton, on the left would have been the wall with the painting of Neptune.

According to Helbig, the atrium also contained a painting – the chariot of Artemis (246) as well as one of Poseiden or Neptune. (172)

See Breton, Ernest. 1870. Pompeia, Guide de visite a Pompei, 3rd ed. Paris, Guerin.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (246, 172)

Schefold showed a black-and-white photo of this wall in Taf.101 of the book below.

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke.(p.122 and Taf.101)

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 20. 

According to Helbig, paintings found in this room were Theseus & Ariadne (1212),

Apollo & Artemis (200), Floating girls (1903, 17, 33, 49)

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1212, 200, etc)

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, west wall with remains of wall painting and niche. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 20, detail of faded painting from west wall showing Apollo & Artemis.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (200).

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, niche in west wall. 

According to Boyce, in the room opening off the south-west corner of the atrium, in the west wall opposite the entrance door, is an arched niche.

This is set high up in the wall.

Its interior walls were painted with green plants on a white background. 

The niche is made to stand out from the decoration of the walls of the room, for it is set across the line which divides the lower panels, which are alternating red and yellow, from the upper register, which is white.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.46, no.152)

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 20, detail of painted plaster in niche on west wall, with white background and green painted plants. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii.  December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster on south wall. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii.  December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster on east wall. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. Deceember 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster from north wall. 

 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Decorative floor in Room 20.

 

 

 

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