VI.15.18 Pompeii. Stable and dormitory. 

Linked to VI.15.16. Excavated 1897.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west to entrance doorway.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west from entrance.

According to Boyce, this was an irregular building which was undergoing alterations at the time of the eruption.

Its purpose was not clear, perhaps the large central room was used for housing carts.

The walls seem to have been all undecorated except for those in a long narrow room in the south-west corner.

In the south end of that room, a domestic sacellum was built.

The sacellum had a vaulted ceiling and a floor of pounded sherds, and according to Mau dated from the period of the First Style.

Against  the south wall stood a masonry altar with concave upper surface.

It was coated with white stucco and upon its front side was painted a small flaming altar with a large serpent on each side.

Near to it on the east wall was a small niche, on the white background of the rear wall was a painted figure.

The figure was clad in a blue garment and reclining upon a couch.

The rear and side walls of the niche were adorned with painted red leaves and three quinces.

In the room to the north, through which access to this sacellum was gained, on the east wall was a rectangular panel of white stucco.

Within the panel was set a tiny niche for a lamp.

Above the panel of white stucco was a second niche coated with coarse plaster and having a painting done in red, on the rear wall.

This painting was very poorly preserved but seemed to represent an aedicula and within it an altar.

Not. Scavi, 1897, 463, photograph p.464.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.(p.56, no.218) 

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii.1897. Sacellum, with altar.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, p.464, fig. 3.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west from entrance.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking towards rear.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall with doorway to VI.15.16.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. Structure near south wall.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2005. Structure near south wall.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. South-west corner.

 

VI.15.18 Pompeii. December 2007. West side with doorways to rear rooms.

According to Jashemski, the site was already badly damaged at the time of the eruption.

At the left rear (south-west) is a small area that Sogliano identified as a small garden.

Mau thought the site was too badly damaged to be interpreted.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.158)

 

Water tower near to VI.15.18, VI.16.22 and VI.16.23, Pompeii.

 

Water tower near to VI.15.18, VI.16.22 and VI.16.23, Pompeii.