IX.3.5 Pompeii. House of M. Lucretius or Casa delle Suonatrici. Part 11.

Linked to IX.3.24. Excavated 1846 and 1851. (Strada Stabiana 33)

 

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IX.3.5 Pompeii. 

On one the piers supporting the portico of the garden was scratched a drawing of a labyrinth, with the following text,

  LABYRINTHVS

   HIC HABITAT

MIN            OTAVRVS

The labyrinth. Here lives the Minotaur.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Remains of painted plaster between rooms 27 and 20.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Doorway to room 20, ahead, and to corridor on right, room 21

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 20, north-east corner.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 20, floor.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 20, south-east corner.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. Wall painting of Apollo and Daphne, found in triclinium. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 9536.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 21, corridor, looking south. Large doorway to room 20, on left.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 21, corridor, looking south. Cistern mouth on the right.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 22, and south-east corner.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 22, north-east corner.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 23.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 23, looking east, from front to rear.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 23, latrine in south-east corner.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 23, latrine.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 23, downpipe in south-east corner.

 

 

 

 

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