IX.8.3 Pompeii. Entrance to House.

Linked to IX.8.6.  Excavated 1879, 1881 and 1902.

IX.8.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance doorway, with seats on both sides.

IX.8.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

IX.8.3 Pompeii. May 2006. West side of entrance with seat and doorway to IX.8.2.

IX.8.3 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance corridor, looking south.

IX.8.3 Pompeii. March 2009.

Entrance corridor, looking north from interior towards Via di Nola.

IX.8.3-6 Pompeii. 

Found in atrium of servants quarters (see IX.8.6, room 23 on parts 7 and 8, for exact position). 

Lararium painting of Bacchus wearing a bunch of grapes. 

Also in the painting are a garland, birds and a snake approaching a round altar from the left.   

Bacchus is pouring wine for the panther to drink.   The mountain slopes are covered in vines.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number: 112286.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L107, T: 11).

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.89, no.448, with Pl.40,2)

IX.8.3/6 Pompeii. May 2005. Exterior west wall on Vicolo del Centenario

IX.8.3/6 Pompeii. May 2005. Vicolo del Centenario, looking south.   IX.5