IV.4.g
Pompeii. Street Altar.
All the doorways on the northern side of Via Nola, forming Regio IV,
have been filled in as a wall to keep the earth bank back from the road.
It is very difficult to find the exact position of these doorways and
link them to any site plan.
Our
numbering is IV.4.a to IV.4.h, in a west to east direction based on the Hans
Eschebach plan of 1969.
CTP
IIIA excludes IV.4.f as being a window, excludes the
street altar and renumbers from east to west as a to
f.
Liselotte
Eschebach has numbered these houses from IV.4.1 to IV.4.6 plus a street altar
in a niche between IV.4.5 and IV.4.6.
See Eschebach,
L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und
Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau.
IV.4.e, IV.4.f, IV.4.g, IV.4.h, Pompeii. May 2005. Entrances.
IV.4.f, (on left) and IV.4.g, (on
right), Pompeii.
May 2005.
According
to Liselotte Eschebach between f and g there was a Street Altar and niche,
originally with a bench.
She
suggests this may be the street altar described by Fröhlich in F24.
Fröhlich in
turn refers to a drawing in Gell and Gandy.
See Eschebach,
L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und
Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau.
See Fröhlich,
T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in
den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p315,
F24)
IV.4.g Pompeii. Drawing of the street
altar and Lararium painting found between IV.4.f and IV.4.g.
See Gell, W. and Gandy, J., 1852. Pompeiana:
Third Edition. London: Bohn.
(p. 97, Pl. 18).
IV.4.g Pompeii. Drawing
of the painting found above a street altar between IV.4.f and IV.4.g.
In the middle are a round altar
with five small figures in long white tunics.
In the centre behind the altar is a Tibicen.
On either side are pairs of Vicomagistri with right arms
outstretched to the altar.
Two large Lares flank the scene.
In the lower zone is a snake approaching from the left to
an altar with eggs and fruit on it.
See Fröhlich,
T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in
den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern.
(p.315, F24)
IV.4.g, Pompeii. May 2006. Street
Altar.
IV.4.g, Pompeii. May 2006. Street Altar.
IV.4.g, Pompeii.
May 2006. Street
Altar.
