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. December 2005.

Upper south wall of cubiculum with painted wall plaster with birds and a mask.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. December 2005. West wall of room in north-west corner of the peristyle.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Wall painting in centre of west wall of cubiculum.

According to Peters, this painting was of a boy sitting with his back turned towards the spectator.

He wore a wreath around his head and carried a bulla in his right hand.

He was surrounded by three very large dogs.

See Peters, W.J.T. (1963): Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings.The Netherland, Van Gorcum & Comp. (p.108 & fig.93)

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. December 2005. Room in north-west corner of the peristyle. 

Wall painting of hunter sitting with dogs.

 

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

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. December 2005. West wall, painting of cupids in a chariot pulled by swans. 

 

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

 

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

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east along the north portico.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009. Looking across the peristyle.

 

IX.9.c Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking across the peristyle, which was enclosed by a portico on four sides, and a low wall.

 

 

 

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