VI.16.20 Pompeii. Statio Vindemitorum. Grape gatherers post?

Linked to VI.16.21, VI.16.22, VI.16.23 and VI.16.24. Excavated 1904.

VI.16.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west to entrance doorway.

VI.16.20 Pompeii. May 2005. The entrance doorway of VI.16.20 is in the wall on the left.

Photo taken from VI.16.23, looking south.

VI.16.20 Pompeii. March 2009.

South painted wall of room on left of picture, with collapsed east and north walls.

VI.16.20 Pompeii. March 2009.

Niche in south wall, originally this may have been in a rear room of VI.16.21/22.

According to Boyce, numbered VI.16.20-24.

In the central room on the south side of the house is a rectangular niche.

It is in the north side of a pilaster which projects from the east wall (now collapsed).

On the wall below the niche, were painted two large yellow serpents on a red background.

Not. Scavi, 1908, 182.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.59, no.225) 

VI.16.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Top of niche, with remains of painted decoration.