VI.9.7 Pompeii. Domus Cn. Caetroni Eutychi.

Rear entrance at VI.9.8. Excavated 1826, 1828 and 1837.

Linked to VI.9.6 and VI.9.9. (Strada di Mercurio 10).

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VI.9.7 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance.

Whilst being excavated on 26th March 1828, a signet/seal was discovered here in the soil with the inscription -

Cn(aei) Cateron()

Eutychi    [CIL X 8058, 13] 

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi. (p.138)

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.52)

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. September 2004.

Looking east from entrance fauces across atrium to tablinum.

 

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Corridor at rear of large exedra leading to rear of VI.9.7.

Originally this did not connect with VI.9.7, but only led to two rustic rooms.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 1, rustic room, still part of VI.9.6

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii.  March 2009.

Looking from rustic room towards corridor at rear of exedra in VI.9.6

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, corridor on south side of room 1, still part of VI.9.6.

Originally this would have only led to the second rustic room.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, corridor on south side of room 1, still part of VI.9.6

Looking west past entrance to room 8.

Originally the corridor would have been bricked without a doorway, where the stone blocks cross the corridor floor.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, rustic room, still part of VI.9.6

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, garden area. 

North passageway leading to room 7.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 4, cubiculum.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, cubiculum.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5 and room 4, cubicula.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, cubiculum.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, cubiculum.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 6, north wall of cubiculum with arched niche.

According to Boyce,

“in one of the rooms (now in ruins) behind the atrium entered at no.7 in the north wall is an arched niche with projecting floor”.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.50, no.179)

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, arched niche in north wall.

 

VI.9.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, plaster from north wall, underneath niche.

 

 

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