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IX.8.c Pompeii
Linked to IX.8.3, and IX.8.6. Excavated 1880.
IX.8.b and IX.8.c
IX.8.b and IX.8.c
IX.8.c
IX.8.c
IX.8.c Pompeii. Old undated postcard. Looking north from
the top of the unexcavated area.
IX.8.c is at the front of the photo. Behind is IX.8.b and
at the rear is the House of the Centenary.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
IX.8.c
IX.8.c
IX.8.c
North-west corner of second room on
north side of north portico of peristyle.
IX.8.c Pompeii. 1860.
Detail from old postcard showing second room on north side of peristyle.
IX.8.c Pompeii. May 2005.
Small room or cupboard, looking north.
IX.8.c Pompeii. 1860.
Detail from old postcard, showing small room or cupboard, looking north.
IX.8.c
Looking east along site of small steps
to upper floor, leading east from small room or cupboard area.
IX.8.c Pompeii. May 2005.
Looking north into exedra. The small stairs are at the
rear of this north wall.
IX.8.c Pompeii. 1860.
Detail from old postcard, looking north into exedra.
IX.8.c
Looking south-west from IX.8.6 across exedra to west wall of small room or
cupboard.
The unexcavated can be
seen on the south side of the peristyle.
IX.8.c
Looking south along east portico, with entrance to
triclinium on the left.
The room on south side of garden area is on the right.
Photograph taken from IX.8.6.
IX.8.c
Looking north-west across peristyle with
terracotta puteal, towards rooms on north side.
IX.8.c
South-west corner and remains of painted
plaster.
IX.8.c
According to Boyce, in the west wall of the kitchen, which
was reached from the south side of the peristyle, was a rectangular niche.
On the wall above the niche was a lararium painting. The
Genius was on the right of a flaming tripod adorned with garlands.
On the left was a tibicen and to the right stood a
camillus. On each side of this group stood a Lar.
The serpents were painted on the back wall of the niche.
Both serpent were red and yellow
and their tails extended over onto the side walls of the niche.
The altar between them was painted as imitation red and
yellow variegated marble.
The layer of plaster on which the serpents had been
painted had partly fallen away, revealing beneath it an earlier layer.
The earlier layer was also decorated with painted figures, however Boyce thought it was impossible to ascertain
what they were.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.
(p.90, no.452).
IX.8.c
Looking south-east towards doorway to
triclinium, on upper left of photo.
According to Jashemski, the peristyle garden was enclosed
on the west, north and east by a portico.
The portico was supported by five stuccoed brick columns
and two pillars.
There was a terracotta puteal in the east portico.
Under the west portico was a small masonry basin with a
low base.
See Jashemski, W. F.,
1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II:
Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.245)
IX.8.c