V.3.11 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1901.

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V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Front street wall, with painted plaster on west side of Vicolo di Lucrezio Frontone.

According to Cooley, the following graffito was found -

I beg you to elect Cn. Helvius Sabinus and M. Samellius Modestus aediles, worthy of public office. [CIL IV 6616]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.124, F70)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) it read –

 

Cn(aeum) Helvium Sabinum

M(arcum) Samellium Modestum

 

aed(iles) d(ignos) r(ei) p(ublicae) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 6616]

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Front street wall, with painted plaster.

West side of Vicolo di Lucrezio Frontone.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway with benches on either side.

Front street wall, with painted plaster, some of it fallen on the pavement on the west side of Vicolo di Lucrezio Frontone.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway. Looking west.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking west from entrance, towards atrium and tablinum.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. West end of fauces, and floor of atrium with impluvium.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Impluvium, looking west.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. Impluvium.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Impluvium in atrium, looking east.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Cubiculum on south side of entrance corridor.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. Necklace found in V.3.11. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

According to Boyce, in the small room to the left of the entrance corridor were found the contents of a chest which had been destroyed.

Many pieces of jewellery and 3 bronze statuettes were found.

Two of the statuettes represented Harpocrates wearing the lotus flower upon his forehead and holding the index finger of his right hand to his lips.

The third statuette was of Venus Anadyomene.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (Appendix 1, Item 2, p. 108)

See Not. Scavi, 1902, 370.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Doorway to triclinium, in south-east corner of atrium.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. May 2005. South side of atrium, with doorways to triclinium and kitchen.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to kitchen, storeroom and latrine.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to cubiculum.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking north towards oecus in north-west corner of atrium.

 

V.3.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across tablinum to entrance to garden area.

 

 

 

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