VII.15.5 Pompeii. Thermopolium and dwelling.

Linked to VII.15.4. Excavated 1872.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking east to entrance doorway and hanging balcony.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005. East side of entrance corridor.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north from doorway.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. Old water colour painting.

Looking north-west from entrance doorway towards two-sided counter.

See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wände Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. (p. 207).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 119).

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini.  (p. 15, no. 40)

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north-west from entrance doorway towards two-sided counter.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across small atrium or yard towards rear rooms.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north to doorway to triclinium with large window overlooking garden, on left.

On the right is the corridor leading to the garden area.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Floor in triclinium, looking north.

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005.

North wall of small garden with niche and site of cylindrical altar and lararium painting.

Boyce recorded a rectangular niche and his plate showed a plastered wall to the right of it which presumably covered the second niche.

In front he recorded a cylindrical altar of about 0.5m height covered in stucco painted in imitation red and white marble.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 72, no.330, plate 12,3).

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Niches.

Boyce recorded a rectangular niche with a red panel on each side.

Each panel was painted with a yellow and black serpent coiling upwards with the head at the top.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 72, no.330, plate 12,3).

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005. West side of niche.

Red panel with remains of painted yellow and black serpent coiling upwards, with the head at the top.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 72, no.330, plate 12,3).

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of niche.

Boyce recorded a female figure reclining on a kline or couch, under an awning.

She was naked from the waist upwards and wearing a yellow robe from the waist down.

In front was a three legged table on which were three jars.

According to Fiorelli this figure was Libera.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 72, no.330, plate 12,3).

See Fiorelli G., 1875. Descrizione di Pompei. Napoli. (p. 310).

 

VII.15.5 Pompeii. September 2005.