VI.9.6 Pompeii. Casa dei Dioscuri or House of Castor & Pollux

or House of M. Nigidius Vaccula or N. Nasennius Nigidius Vaccula.

Rear entrance at VI.9.9. Excavated 1826, 1828, 1837. (Strada di Mercurio 11).

Linked to VI.9.7 and VI.9.8.                                   Part 1.

 

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VI.9.6 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north past entrance on Via di Mercurio from outside VI.9.7

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. September 2005. Wall between VI.9.6 and VI.9.7 on Via di Mercurio.

According to Breton, on the facade one could read many inscriptions but by then (1870) many were faded and unreadable, but many had also been published.

One was –

Casellium

Erastus  cupit  aed(ilem)     [CIL IV 179]

See Breton, Ernest, 1870. Pompeia, Guide de visite a Pompei, 3rd ed. Paris, Guerin.

See Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de)

 

According to Fiorelli he thought one patron owned all of the remaining big house of the insula (VI.9.6/7), and he had had it decorated externally with a red painted podium but this was covered and degraded by  much graffiti and writings, one of the most notable recording the fight between the Nucerians and Pompeians

Campani  Victoria  una

cum  Nucerinus  peristis

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.65)

According to Cooley, this translates as “Campanians, in our victory you perished with the Nucerians”. [CIL IV 1293, ILS 6443a]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.62)

 

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, found in September or October 1828, written with an iron point in small letters, was the inscription –

Campani  Victoria  una

cum  Nucerinus  peristis     [CIL IV 1293]

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.

(p.139) and PAH II, 215-6.

 

On 30th September 1828 were found –

A(ulum)  Vettium  Firmum

aed(ilem)  v(irum)  b(onum)  o(ro)  v(os) f(aciatis)  Felix  cupit      [CIL IV 174]

 

and another -

 

A(ulum)  Vettium  Firmum  aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)

Fuscus  cum  Vaccula  facit      [CIL IV 175]

 

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.

(p.139-40) and PAH II, 216: III,91.

 

According to Della Corte, he thought Fuscus was a neighbour of the Vaccula family.

On the outside wall was another recommendation of this same Fuscus for the same candidate -

A(ulum)  Vettium  Firmum

aed(ilem)  v(iis)  a(edibus)  s(sacris)  p(ublicis)  p(rocurandis)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  Fuscus (rogat)     [CIL IV 176]. 

 

Higher up on the same wall outside VI.9.6, was another electoral recommendation, which according to Della Corte was the joint recommendation of the two neighbours - Fuscus cum Vaccula facit  [CIL IV 175, see above].

 

Della Corte knew of two Pompeians with the cognomen M. Nigidius Vaccula and N. Nasennius Nigidius Vaccula. 
The first was noted for donating the mobile bronze brazier, signed with his name (brazier, palette (fire shovel) and seats) to the public baths, known by the name Forum Baths, and the other Stabian Baths. 

The second name was recorded in the apocha Iuc. VI, which referred to the accounts of the heirs of the defunct N. Nasennius Nigidius Vaccula and payment made to a servant, Salvius, in the year 54, etc

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.51)

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of fauces, leading to atrium.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of fauces.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Found 18^th June 1828 in room 1, the fauces of entrance corridor.

Wall painting of one of the two Dioscuri.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9455.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. December 2006. South wall of fauces, leading to atrium.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south wall of fauces.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Found 18^th June 1828 in room 1, fauces or entrance corridor.

Wall painting of one of the two Dioscuri.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9453.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking east across atrium to garden.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 3, looking east across atrium.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, room to south of entrance that had a latrine and staircase. South wall.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, south-west corner.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, south-east corner.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, east wall.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, south wall.

 

 

 

 

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