VI.15.1 Pompeii. House of the Vettii or Casa dei Vettii or Domus Vettiorum.

Excavated 1894-1895. Linked to VI.15.27.

Entrance, Vestibule and Atrium.

Part 4.                                               Part 5

Part 6      Part 1      Part 2      Part 3      VI.15.1 Plan

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painting in Oecus on South side of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Oecus on South side of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Oecus on South side of Atrium.

Painting of the Metamorphosis of Cyparissus.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006.  Detail of painting in Oecus on South side of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006. Detail of plaster in Oecus on South side of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006.  Detail of painting in Oecus on South side of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006. 

View from Atrium of steps to upper floor and of corridor leading to Stable entrance at VI.15.27.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii. December 2006. Atrium showing glass case on South side. 

This contained an iron and bronze strongbox or safe. 

This was being restored as at Dec 2006.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  View into glass case on South side of Atrium.

This contained an iron and bronze strongbox or safe. 

This was being restored as at Dec 2006.

Painting on rear wall was dated by Mau to be pre 63 AD.  Maiuri did not agree.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.327).

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  View into glass case on South side of Atrium.

This shows the masonry base that supported the iron and bronze strongbox or safe. 

The safe was being restored as at Dec 2006.

 

Bedroom to the South of Atrium

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Bedroom to the South of Atrium left with Ala on right.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painted figures in bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painted figures in bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painted figures in bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painted figures in bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painted figures in bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

VI.15.1 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Detail of painted figures in bedroom to the South of Atrium.

 

 

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