V.2.h Pompeii. Casa del Cenacolo.

Excavated 1891 to 1893, 1907. Reconstructed 1975.

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V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Floor and marble door sill.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

Looking from tablinum, across atrium towards entrance fauces and two doorways to cubicula on either side.

The doorway on the left leads into the cubiculum on the west of the fauces.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

Cubiculum to west of fauces, remains of painted decoration, north wall.

According to Spano, when excavated the walls of this room were described as having a complete white background.

Each wall was split into three rectangular compartments, separated by yellow candelabra and green bands, and a bird in the centre of each division.

The upper frieze almost entirely destroyed, but was probably decorated with the usual bands and arabesques.

The lower part of the wall, was decorated with squares of small specks of various colours, imitating marble.

The floor was of mortar with numerous marble stones set into it.

Found in this room on September 28^th 1907, were three bone cylinders perhaps furniture hinges, together with three nails, a ring, and a type of small ferrule, all in bronze.

See Spano in Notizie di Scavi, 1910, p.329.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005.

Cubiculum to west of fauces, remains of painted decoration, east wall.

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Kitchen in north-east corner of atrium, with hearth.

According to Boyce, the lararium was on the south wall.

On the right of the picture can be seen the remains of the lararium serpents.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.37, no.107, Pl.17,2)

 

V.2.h Pompeii. Old undated photograph. Lararium on south wall of kitchen.

The square niche had its walls painted with white stucco outlined in red and decorated with red spots.

Painted on each side of the niche were the figures of the sacrificing scene, but the plaster on the left had fallen.

On the right could be seen the tibicen, the Lar, and beyond him, a boy leading a hog decorated with a red band.

Further to the right, there may have been a further serpent.

In the lower zone, two huge serpents rose more or less vertically on each side of a cylindrical altar, painted in red and yellow imitation marble.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.37, no.107, Pl.17,2)

 

V.2.h Pompeii. December 2005. Kitchen, recess in north-west corner.

According to Spano, a square window with preserved grating was found in the north wall.

Along the north wall, but perhaps at night only, may have been put a small bed.

In the west part of the north wall can be seen the characteristic hollowed recess destined to contain one of the ends of the bed.

See Spano in Notizie di Scavi, 1910, p.330.

 

V.2.i left and V.2.h on Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento. May 2006.

 

 

 

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