IX.9.c Pompeii. Casa del Porcellino or Casa di Sulpicius Rufus.

Linked to IX.9.b. Excavated 1880 and 1887.

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IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to cubiculum on north wall of north portico.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of cubiculum. 

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of cubiculum. 

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper east wall of cubiculum. 

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. December 2005. East wall of cubiculum with wall painting of Nike and a trophaion.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Centre of east wall of cubiculum.

Wall painting of the winged goddess Nike (on left) and a tropaion, a monument set up to commemorate a victory over one's foes.

Typically this took the shape of a tree, sometimes with a pair of arm-like branches (or, in later times, a pair of stakes set crosswise) upon which is hung the armour of a defeated and dead foe.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Painting from east wall of cubiculum, north end.

Semicircular painted panel with animals inside.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Painting from east wall of cubiculum, south end.

Semicircular painted panel with animals inside.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Painted panel from east wall of cubiculum.  

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper east wall of cubiculum. Painted plants and mask.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper east wall of cubiculum.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper east wall of cubiculum.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper east wall of cubiculum.

Wall painting of cupids driving a chariot pulled by swans.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper east wall of cubiculum.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of cubiculum.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Upper south wall of cubiculum.

 

 

 

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