Pompeii. Painted street shrine on wall at VII.11.13.

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north along Vicolo del Lupanare.

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted street shrine on outside wall.  

In the past in white letters above the painting were the words

Otiosis locus hic non est. Discede morator. (CIL IV 813)

(This is not the place to idle, Shove off, loiterer”. (Trans by P. Foss)

See Dobbins, J & Foss, P., 2008. The World of Pompeii. New York: Routledge. (p.482 and Note 81)

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted street shrine on outside wall. 

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted street shrine on outside wall.  

According to Fiorelli, on the extreme right of the painting, written in white,

but now completely vanished, was a record of wine drunk in the caupona,

and above that was written -    L(V)MPAS

                                                         ROMANESES

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.110)

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted street altar on outside wall.  

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted street shrine on outside wall. 

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Painted street shrine on outside wall.  

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Detail of painted street altar on outside wall.  

VII.11.13 Pompeii. December 2005. Detail of painted street altar on outside wall.