VI.15.23 Pompeii. Unnamed house. Excavated 1896.

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VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east directly into peristyle.

According to Wallace-Hadrill, this house consisted of a peristyle with four-sided colonnade and eleven rooms around it.

There were faded decorations found in the peristyle, and a Style IV lararium painting in the kitchen.

He thought the well-built peristyle may have been formerly part of another house, perhaps VI.15.9 or 12.

See Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1994): Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Princeton Univ. Pr, (p.215)

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle.

According to Jashemski, the peristyle garden excavated in 1896-7 was enclosed on all four sides by a portico.

It was supported by eleven columns covered with rough plaster.

The columns were joined by a low masonry wall which had an entrance to the garden on the east side.

There was a puteal enclosed in the south wall between the last two columns at the east end.

Around the edges of the garden was a gutter.

There was a marble foot for a fountain basin or a table in the portico.

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

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005.

North portico, with remains of columns and marble foot for a fountain basin or table.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking south along west side of portico of peristyle, from near entrance doorway.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east across peristyle.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking towards east portico.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east along north portico towards pilaster.

According to Sogliano, two paintings were discovered on the pilaster between the oecus and tablinum on the east portico.

These were cut from the wall and taken to Naples Archaeological Museum.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, p. 154-5.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. 1897. Painting on pilaster of two women, one seated, on east portico between oecus and tablinum.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, p. 154, fig. 2.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. 1897. Second painting on pilaster of two women, one seated, on east portico between oecus and tablinum.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1897, p. 155, fig. 3.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Two doorways to cubicula on north side of portico.

Beyond these is the open doorway to the north ala, and on the east portico a doorway to an oecus.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005.

Small room at rear of the oecus with stone feature against south wall.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005.

Small room at rear of the oecus with stone feature against east wall.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east into tablinum from east portico.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. East wall of portico.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking south-west across peristyle towards kitchen area, from north-east corner near ala and oecus.

 

VI.15.23 Pompeii. September 2005. Half-column in west peristyle wall near doorway to kitchen.

 

 

 

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