III.2.1 Pompeii. Casa di Trebius Valens or House of Aulus Trebius Valens.

Excavated 1913 and 1915. Bombed in 1943.

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III.2.1 Room Plan (Opens in a separate window)

 

III.1 Pompeii. December 2005.      Blocked roadway looking north.                         III.2.1

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2007. South-west corner front wall adjoining blocked roadway.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Front wall on west side of entrance on Via dell’Abbondanza.

The wall on this side of the entrance was destroyed when a bomb landed in the atrium on 19th September 1943.

All of the painted graffiti, electoral recommendations and an announcement of games in the amphitheatre were lost.

The wall on the east side was devastated by another bomb landing to the south-east of the house in the Via dell’Abbondanza.

A small portion of the writings on the east side were saved, restored and can still be read today. See III.2.1 pt 10.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.51-53, incl. photos of damage).

 

According to Della Corte, some of the inscriptions on the west side of the doorway to confirm the house as belonging to Trebius Valens, were –

Valens  fac,  et  ille  te  fecit      [CIL IV 7618]

Trebi,  surge, fac   [CIL IV 7619]

Trebi  Valens,  dormis   [CIL IV 7614]

Trebius  soda(lis)  facit,  Trebius  rog(at)    [CIL IV 7617]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.345)

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), these read as -

 

Popidium  L(uci)  f(ilium)  Ampliatum  aed(ilem)

Valens  fac(it)  et  ille  te fecit  Infan..(tio)      [CIL IV 7618]

 

Trebi  surge  fac(it)

aed(ilem)  Lollium  Fuscum

adulescentem  probum       [CIL IV 7619]

 

L(ucium)  Popidium  Secundum  f(ilium)  aed(ilem)  v(irum)  b(onum)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)

Trebi  Valens  dormis     [CIL IV 7614]

 

Caecilium  IIvir(um)

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Trebius  soda(lis)  facit  Trebius  rog(at)    [CIL IV 7617]

 

According to Varone and Stefani, also lost from this wall were the following CIL IV 7611, 7612, 7613, 7616 and 7991.

None of these have been conserved.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.233-5, with photo of the wall in c.1918)

 

CIL IV 7991 was an advertisement for the gladiatorial games in the amphitheatre, and according to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), read as  –

 

 Cn(aei) Allei Nigidi / Mai quinq(uennalis) sine impensa publica glad(iatorum) par(ia) XX et eorum supp(ositicii) pugn(abunt) Pompeis // Gavellius Tigillo / et Clodio sal(utem) / Telephe summa rudis / instrumentum muneris / u(bique) v(ale) / Diadumeno et Pyladioni fe(liciter)

 

According to Cooley, this advertisement was painted in black and red and was dated around AD 55/56 or later.

It translates as –

20 pairs of gladiators of Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius, quinquennial, and their substitutes will fight without any public expense at Pompeii.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.53)

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

Upon excavation, and 2.60m height above the pavement level, a bronze cylindrical door-bell with iron bell-clapper (height 0.13m) was found on 3^rd January.

According to Della Corte, the threshold of the door to this house was reached by climbing two steps of travertine.

At the moment of the catastrophe in 79AD the door was closed.

This was proved by the finding of the door locking apparatus (door-lock, key, door-handle and bolt) collected from the up-right of the nearby door-shutter.

See Della Corte, M, in Notizie di Scavi, 1914, (p. 75 and p.104)

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, atrium. Looking north to tablinum.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 1, atrium, before restoration.  

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. September 2004. Room 1, atrium, before restoration.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. South-west side of the atrium, with doorways to rooms 2, 3 and 4.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Rooms 2 and 3, before restoration.  

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, cubiculum. Looking south.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, steps to upper floor, with cupboard underneath.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, looking south.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, interior of the cupboard recess.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Rooms on west side of atrium.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Rooms on east side of atrium, before restoration.  

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 4, cubiculum on the west side of the atrium.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, west wall of cubiculum, with small window.

 

III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, north wall of cubiculum.

 

 

 

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III.2.1 Room Plan (Opens in a separate window)