VI.13.2 Pompeii. Casa del Gruppo dei Vasi di Vetro.

Linked to VI.13.1, VI.13.3, VI.13.4, VI.13.20 and VI.13.21.

Partially excavated c.1830’s and fully excavated in 1874.

Badly damaged by bombing in 1943. (Strada della Fortuna 49)

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VI.13.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, a graffito found in May 1831 on the left pilaster between VI.13.1 and 2, was –

Holconium Priscum

verecundissimum d(ignum) r(ei) p(ublicae) aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) dignissimum.  [CIL IV 309]

Found on the right pilaster, between VI.13.2 and 3, painted in red, was –

Samellium Modestum iuvenum probum aed(ilem)    [CIL IV 286]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.

(p.145) PAH III, 119

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. December 2004. East wall of vestibule and fauces.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. December 2004. Atrium and impluvium.

On 13th September 1943 at 17.00 hours much damage was done when two bombs landed here.

One caused the demolition and destruction of three rooms on the west side of the atrium, with a large part of the perimeter wall onto Vicolo del Fauno.

The other damaged another three rooms on the south-east side, together with the perimeter wall on the east side.

The south-west of the peristyle was also destroyed together with surrounding areas, including the lararium on the east side.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 85)

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking north across atrium, through tablinum to peristyle.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking from tablinum into remains of peristyle.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii.  December 2007. 

Remains of painted plaster on north wall of summer triclinium.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. December 2004.   

Looking from tablinum across peristyle to summer triclinium.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. September 2005. 

Looking south-east towards rear of andron, tablinum and oecus.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-east across peristyle.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across peristyle towards summer triclinium and altar.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Remains of altar in north-east corner of peristyle.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. 1878. Altar in north-east corner of peristyle.

Old painting showing the decoration of the lararium.

Boyce described a rectangular podium with yellow stucco bordered with red stripes.

On each of the two free sides is a serpent coiling towards a flaming altar on the free corner.

The serpents and the flaming altar are in stucco relief.

On each wall above is a Lar with rhyton and situla.

There must have originally been an aedicula with the roof supported by a single column at the one free corner of the podium.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 52, 193, Pl. 34,4).

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Altar and broken column.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Wall to the south of the altar.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Top of altar and remains of painted plaster on the rear wall.

 

VI.13.2 Pompeii. March 2009. Base of altar, remains of painted plaster on west side.

 

 

 

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