III.4.b Pompeii. House of Pinarius Cerialis and Cassia

or Casa dell’orefice or Casa di Ifigenia.

Excavated 1916 to 1917 and 1926.

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III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, triclinium. Upper south wall with painting of face.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Portico area, painted wall between rooms 5 and 6.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 6.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, looking east.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south along the east portico area.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, looking east.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 8, with small remains of original plaster. Looking east.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. Portable bronze and iron brazier. SAP 2647.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area, looking west.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area, looking north-west.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west along the north portico towards entrance.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east along the north portico.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south from north portico.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from entrance.

 

III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.

External wall showing site of election graffiti between III.4.b and III.4.a. (on right side).

These notices declared support for Paquius Proculus as duumvir, Epidius Sabinus and Trebius Valens as aediles.

One of these referred not only to the support of Cerialis but also to his wife Cassia.

 

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

 

A(ulum)  Trebium  Valentem  aed(ilem)  Cerialis

Acratopinon  cum  Cassia  rog(at)      [CIL IV 7669]

Lollium

Cerialis  fac(it)  aed(ilem)      [CIL IV 7670]

 

Paquium  IIvir(um)  o(ro)  f(aciatis)  Cerialis  rog(at)      [CIL IV 7671]

A(ulum)  Trebium  aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)      [CIL IV 7672]

M(arcum)  Epidium  Sabinum

/

aed(ilem)  o(ro)

v(os)  f(aciatis)  c(ivem)  b(onum)

Piranus  rog(at)                          [CIL IV 7674]

 

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.252-3 with photos)

 

III.4.b Pompeii. December 2007.

External wall showing site of election graffiti between III.4.b and III.4.a.

 

III.3 Pompeii.  Roadway looking north showing, door to III.4a and b.   December 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

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