VII.4.49 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1847. (Strada della Fortuna 13).

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall, looking west along Via della Fortuna.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall, looking west along Via della Fortuna.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall, and south-west corner.

Graffito found painted on the pilaster between VII.4.49 and 50 –

[…]  Aqutium  […]

d(uum)v(irum)  v(irum)  [b(onum) [...]       [CIL IV 2]

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p. 357 & Tav. XXIXc)

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de)

Also found in June 1833, outside VII.4.49 was –

M(arcum)  Cerrinium     [CIL IV 288]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.  (p. 148)

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010.

South wall with a bricked-up doorway to a rear room in the south-west corner.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance, looking south.

According to Fiorelli, there was a picture in this shop of a cuttlefish and a red mullet.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.92)

VII.4.49 Pompeii. May 2010. East wall with niche.

The staircase to the upper floor used to be against this wall.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall with niche.

VII.4.49 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche in east wall.

According to Boyce, its inside was coated with white stucco.

It was called by Fiorelli la nicchia de’ Penati.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 66)