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VI.8.3 Pompeii
Excavated 1824 to 1825. Linked to VI.8.5.
Part 1. Part 2
Part 3 VI.8.3 and VI.8.5 Room Plan (Opens
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VI.8.3
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Entrance corridor.
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Peristyle with lararium.
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
House of the Tragic Poet. Peristyle with aedicule.
Old undated photograph. Courtesy of Society of Antiquaries. Fox Collection.
VI.8.3 Pompeii. About 1840. Old print of peristyle.
The picture of the
Sacrifice of Iphigenia is artistically transposed to the north wall of the
garden.
It was in fact on the
north end of the portico.
VI.8.3
VI.8.3
Mau identified this as
the location of the painting of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia which was removed to
the Naples Museum.
See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art.
See Gell, W, 1837.
Pompeiana. London: Lewis A. Lewis. (Ch 8, T. XXXV).
VI.8.3
Painting of the
Sacrifice of Iphigenia.
Agamemnon is to the
left with a statue of Artemis on a pillar behind. Two men, perhaps Ulysses and
Diomedes, carry Iphigenia to be sacrificed. Calchas is to the right with his
unsheathed sword in his hand. Just as the girl is about to be sacrificed Artemis
appears in the sky to the right and from the left a nymph brings a deer which
the goddess accepts as a substitute. Now in
See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.318).
See Helbig, W.,
1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1304, p.283-4).
See Gell, W, 1837. Pompeiana. London: Lewis
A. Lewis. (Ch 8, T. XXXV).
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Peristyle.
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Aedicula lararium.
Boyce seemed doubtful
that this was for the worship of the household gods, and may have just been a
decorative feature.
Many of the accounts
of the discovery, state that a statuette of a faun was found within this niche,
but other reports do not agree.
It is therefore
impossible to know if this was the figure that was normally contained within the
niche.
Anyway it did seem
likely that it did contain some such single statuette of ornamental character,
rather than the images of the gods of the household.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.48, no.168 and Pl.30,3),
and other references.
According to Pagano
and Prisciandaro, reported on 28th January 1825, found in the tablinum was a
marble statuette of a faun, broken in three pieces.
Naples Inventry number: MN 6347
See Pagano, M.
and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle
provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.
Naples : Nicola Longobardi.
(p. 132)
PAH II, 126, reporting
the discovery on 12th February 1825 called it a lararium for the household gods,
and did not mention a statue of a faun.
According to
Jashemski, PAH II,125 reported that the statuette of a marble faun (MN 6347)
carrying a goatskin full of fruit around his neck was found to the left of the
tablinum.
Minervini,
thirty-three years later reported that the statue was found in the aedicula, and
this account has been repeated down the years.
The shell of a
tortoise which had been kept in the garden was also found.
See Jashemski, W. F.,
1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II:
Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.133, with photos 142, and 143 (marble
faun).
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Lararium.
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Niche in lararium.
VI.8.5 Pompeii.
1915. Looking through tablinum to peristyle and aedicula lararium.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3 Pompeii.
December 2006. Looking west across peristyle.
VI.8.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 11, west wall of peristyle.
VI.8.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Peristyle, looking west.
VI.8.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorways to rooms 15 and 16 on west side of peristyle.
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