IX.3.5 Pompeii.  House of M. Lucretius or Casa delle Suonatrici. Part 7.

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

 

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IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, wall painting in centre of lower part of south wall.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, wall painting in centre of lower part of west wall.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, east wall of triclinium, linked to room 13. 

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. Painting of Hercules and Omphale from the east wall of triclinium.

Hercules is in women’s clothing, dazed by the wine and the music. 

Omphale with his lion skin and his club observes the results of her victory.  

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 8992.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, north wall, with window with view over garden area.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, centre panel of north wall. 

Remains of painting of  the Triumph of Bacchus.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, south wall.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, mosaic floor.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, mosaic floor.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, looking west into room 13.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14. 

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 15, cubiculum.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, west wall.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, panel on north end of west wall.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, wall painting of Nereid or Galatea, from centre of west wall. 

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. 1029.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.433)

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, panel on south end of west wall.

 

 

 

 

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