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VI.14.25 Pompeii.
December 2005. Looking west towards entrance doorway.

VI.14.25 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking west along entrance corridor.

VI.14.25 Pompeii. May 2005.
Fresco from rear room of VI.14.25 showing repaired wall/doorway, looking over rear wall from VI.14.26.

VI.14.25 Pompeii. Looking west
from entrances on Via del Vesuvio.
Plan showing entrance
to VI.14.25, and shop at 26, from cork model exhibited in Naples Archaeological
Museum.
According to
Wallace-Hadrill, this was a complex of seven rooms and a light-well at the end
of the passageway.
It had been identified
as an officina tinctoria.
When excavated there had been Style IV decoration in three of the rooms.
See Wallace-Hadrill,
A. (1994): Houses and Society in Pompeii
and Herculaneum. Princeton Univ. Press, (p.213)
According to
Eschebach, entered by a long corridor, on the left would have been a triclinium
fenestratum, and garden with small portico
On the right, a yard
with two neighbouring rooms. On the west side, cubiculum, kitchen, storeroom,
steps to upper floor and latrine, dormitory.
See Eschebach,
L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan
der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.213)
According to Jashemski, the small garden at the rear of a
large exedra had a portico on the north supported by a single column.
See Jashemski, W. F.,
1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II:
Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.150)
On the model above, the small garden would be the room on
the left, with a window and doorway in its west wall.
According to Boyce, in the west wall of the kitchen beside
the hearth, was an arched niche.
Its floor projected as a narrow shelf.
Sogliano reported a fragmentary lararium painting in this
room – now entirely vanished.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.53, no.201)
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane
scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.19, no.68, in the kitchen)
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED
Edizioni. (p.178)
According to Garcia y Garcia, VI.14.25 was affected by the
demolition and destruction of two rooms, and part of the perimeter wall, due to
the nearby bombing in 1943.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p.91)
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