VII.2.20 Pompeii. Casa di N. Popidius Priscus or Casa dei Marmi.

Linked to VII.2.21, VII.2.41 and VII.2.41a.

Excavated 1833, 1845 and 1863-4.

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VII.2.20 Pompeii.  March 2009. 

Entrance, with short vestibule and then threshold for fauces.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Vestibule with marble threshold.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south across atrium. 

Found somewhere in this house on 21st May 1866 was the statue of Drunken Silenus, below.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii.  Old undated photograph.

Bronze statue of Drunken Silenus, intended as a stand for a vase, of which the fragments were found nearby.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 5001.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. December 2005. East side of atrium, from entrance fauces.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. December 2005. West side of atrium, from entrance fauces.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Impluvium in atrium. Looking south.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009.  Room 1, looking south-east across impluvium in atrium.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking east across atrium, towards rooms, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 2, triclinium.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Room 2, north wall of triclinium with windows onto Vicolo del Panettiere.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, east wall of triclinium.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. December 2007. 

North-east corner of atrium, between doorways to rooms 2 & 3. 

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 1, east side of atrium showing doorways to rooms 3, 4, 5 and 6. Looking south-east.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 3, cubiculum.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, east wall of cubiculum.

 

VII.2.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, north wall of cubiculum.

 

 

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