I.5.3 Pompeii. Ruined site east of Tannery at I.5.2, possibly a stable and/or hospitium.

Neglected (some parts since antiquity). Excavated 1873.

 

I.25 Pompeii, on left.  Vicolo del Citarista looking south to walls.  I.5.3, entrance on right.

September 2010. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.25 Pompeii, unexcavated. September 2005. Vicolo looking south. I.5.3 and side wall of I.5.2

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010.  Entrance doorway, looking west along south side.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

 

Found in I.5.3. in 1873, now on display in VII.1.8 The Stabian Baths, men’s changing room.

Known as the Seventh Victim or The Sick Man.

This plaster cast was recovered by Fiorelli on 25^th September 1873 during the excavation of the garden of I.5.3. 

This was one of the human plaster casts, as were in the Pompeii Antiquarium prior to the 1943 bombing – then either destroyed or now restored and on display elsewhere.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.165)

See SSANP: Boscoreale Antiquarium exhibition catalogue: The Casts, 5 March – 20 December 2010. (p.7)

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.191)

See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of Michigan Press. (p.85)

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. Detail of head of plaster cast known as The Sick Man.

In 1875 Fiorelli wrote: “……he lay down on the ground and there fell calmly into his eternal sleep”

Now on display in VII.1.8, The Stabian Baths, Men’s changing room.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. Old 19^th century postcard of cast of the sick or sleeping man.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. Old 19^th century postcard of body found in Pompeii in 1873.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010.  Looking east towards entrance, from large open area.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010.  

Looking north across large area. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

Jashemski thought that this site, (excavated in 1874) and already destroyed in antiquity, had probably been a hospitium.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.33)

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010.  

Small room or stable, on west side of large open area.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

Jashemski reported that a watering trough for animals could still be seen.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.33)

Possibly, the watering trough is the one in the garden of I.5.2, on the south-west corner of this rear wall.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Niche in west wall of large open area.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

Boyce reported that there was an arched niche in the west wall with projecting floor.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.25)

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010.  

Looking south across large open area, with the entrance doorway in the east wall, on the left.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north along Vicolo del Citarista, with entrance doorway in the wall, on the left.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.5.3 Pompeii. September 2005.   Vicolo del Citarista, looking north.   I.25 unexcavated

 

Pompeii. Unnamed vicolo between the city walls and 1.5, looking west towards Via Stabiana

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

Vicolo on south side of I.5, looking west. September 2005.

 

I.5 Pompeii. September 2005.   Vicolo looking east.       Town walls near Stabian Gate.

 

I.1 Pompeii. September 2005.              Vicolo looking north.                                  I.5