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VI.17.42 Pompeii. Casa del Bracciale d'oro or House of Golden Bracelet

or House of the Wedding of Alexander.

Garden Rooms

 

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VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, east wall at rear of triclinium.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, east wall at rear of triclinium.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, north wall. Remains of painted wall, triclinium bed and niche.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, north wall.  Remains of painted wall, triclinium bed and niche.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, north side of triclinium bed. Marble front edges with architecturally shaped niches.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006.

Summer triclinium 31, north side of triclinium bed. Marble front edges with architecturally shaped niches.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, ornate marble water triclinium. Water fell down the steps of the apsed fountain and then produced a jet in the pool in the centre of the couches. This then emptied into the pool in the garden below. See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 166).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, ornate marble water triclinium.

Water fell down the steps of the apsed fountain and then produced a jet in the pool in the centre of the couches.

This then emptied into the pool in the garden below.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p. 166).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, front of marble water triclinium.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Summer triclinium 31, front of marble water triclinium.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Pool in garden below summer triclinium.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Pool in garden below summer triclinium.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Pool in garden below summer triclinium. The pool had a fountain jet in the centre and twenty eight jets around the perimeter.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006.

Pool in garden below summer triclinium. The pool had a fountain jet in the centre and twenty-eight jets around the perimeter.

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983. Looking east towards the pool being uncovered from the lapilli. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0589

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Looking east towards the pool being uncovered from the lapilli. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii, 1983. Pool in garden, during excavations.  Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0591
“According to Wilhelmina, “At the east end of the garden was an apsed pool painted blue inside, with a fountain rising in the middle and twenty-eight jets along the edges”. 
See Jashemski, W.F., 2014. Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii: Memoirs of a Garden Archaeologist, (p.288)

VI.17.42 Pompeii, 1983. Pool in garden, during excavations. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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“According to Wilhelmina,

“At the east end of the garden was an apsed pool painted blue inside, with a fountain rising in the middle and twenty-eight jets along the edges”.

See Jashemski, W.F., 2014. Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii: Memoirs of a Garden Archaeologist, (p.288)

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii, 1983. Looking south-west towards rear of garden.  Photo by Sally Gladden.  
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0584

VI.17.42 Pompeii, 1983. Looking south-west towards rear of garden, during excavations. Photo by Sally Gladden.     

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii, 1983. Looking south-west towards rear of garden, during excavation. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0585
According to Wilhelmina, “At the west end of the garden was a slightly raised narrow bed, at the rear of which was a row of 28 small root cavities. The cavities along the south wall were badly damaged, but symmetry suggested that they were vines, and they covered each wall. The largest cavity in the garden, apparently that of a tree or perhaps an oleander, was in the south-west rectangular bed.”
See Jashemski, W.F., 2014. Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii: Memoirs of a Garden Archaeologist, (p.288)

VI.17.42 Pompeii, 1983.

Looking south-west towards rear of garden, during excavation. Photo by Sally Gladden.    

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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According to Wilhelmina, “At the west end of the garden was a slightly raised narrow bed, at the rear of which was a row of 28 small root cavities.

The cavities along the south wall were badly damaged, but symmetry suggested that they were vines, and they covered each wall.

The largest cavity in the garden, apparently that of a tree or perhaps an oleander, was in the south-west rectangular bed.”

See Jashemski, W.F., 2014. Discovering the Gardens of Pompeii: Memoirs of a Garden Archaeologist, (p.288)

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983. Discovery in the lapilli of the west perimeter wall of the garden. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0586
According to Ciardiello, “An exceptional find happened in 1983 during some work in the garden. A large quantity of painted fragments belonging to a previous decoration of an upper floor room were found. Also found during this excavation, were a series of terracotta plaques with reliefs with traces of colours, decorated with gods, circles and cupids which had belonged to an architectural frieze. They had been reused in the west perimeter wall, partly as the wall covering, in part as a wall ornament in the garden and partly as a cover for the waste channel. They would have formed the decoration of a sacred building and would have shaped a frieze depicting the myth of Apollo and Marsyas.” 
See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U., 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.75-7), chapter by Rosaria Ciardiello, on The House of the Golden Bracelet.
Note: 16, on p.76 says that Menotti De Lucia thought they had come from a suburban sanctary dedicated to Dionysus, whereas De Caro thought they were from the Temple of Apollo.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Discovery in the lapilli of the west perimeter wall of the garden. Photo by Sally Gladden.    

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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According to Ciardiello, “An exceptional find happened in 1983 during some work in the garden.

A large quantity of painted fragments belonging to a previous decoration of an upper floor room were found.

Also found during this excavation, were a series of terracotta plaques with reliefs with traces of colours, decorated with gods, circles and cupids which had belonged to an architectural frieze.

They had been reused in the west perimeter wall, partly as the wall covering, in part as a wall ornament in the garden and partly as a cover for the waste channel.

They would have formed the decoration of a sacred building and would have shaped a frieze depicting the myth of Apollo and Marsyas.”

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U., 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.75-7), chapter by Rosaria Ciardiello, on The House of the Golden Bracelet.

(Note: 16, on p.76 says that Menotti De Lucia thought they had come from a suburban sanctuary dedicated to Dionysus, whereas De Caro thought they were from the Temple of Apollo.)

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii, 1983. Terracotta plaque found embedded into the face of the surrounding wall of the garden.  Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0587

VI.17.42 Pompeii, 1983.

Terracotta plaque found embedded into the face of the surrounding wall of the garden. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983. Detail of terracotta plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
 Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0588

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Detail of terracotta plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983.  Terracotta plaque found embedded against a wall. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0590

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Terracotta plaque found embedded against a wall. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii, 1983. Detail of terracotta plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0592

VI.17.42 Pompeii, 1983. Detail of terracotta plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983. Detail of terracotta relief on plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0593

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Detail of terracotta relief on plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983. Detail of figures on terracotta plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0594

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Detail of figures on terracotta plaque. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii. 1983. Terracotta plaques being discovered in the west wall of the garden. Photo by Sally Gladden.    
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details. J80f0595

VI.17.42 Pompeii. 1983. Terracotta plaques being discovered in the west wall of the garden. Photo by Sally Gladden.   

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, of a floral frieze with gods and cupids.
On display in Antiquarium at VIII.1.4, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, of a floral frieze with gods and cupids.

On display in Antiquarium at VIII.1.4, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, of a floral frieze with gods and cupids.
On display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, of a floral frieze with gods and cupids.

On display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Detail from terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42. 
On display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Detail from terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42.

On display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, of a floral frieze with gods and cupids.
On display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, of a floral frieze with gods and cupids.

On display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. 
Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. 
Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. 
Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42, Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis. 
Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. February 2021. Terracotta plaque found in VI.17.42, on display in Antiquarium, from Insula Occidentalis.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. April 2019. Fragments of III Style decoration photographed on display in Antiquarium. 
These fragments were found in 1983, together with numerous others, in the garden area.
They were from a room damaged following the 62AD earthquake
Top: Oval fragment of Satyr and Maenad from upper zone of a wall.
Lower: Fragment of predella on black background (PAP inventory number 86078)
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U. et al, 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis, I. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.222 and 244, and 248).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. April 2019. Fragments of III Style decoration photographed on display in Antiquarium.

These fragments were found in 1983, together with numerous others, in the garden area.

They were from a room damaged following the 62AD earthquake

Top: Oval fragment of Satyr and Maenad from upper zone of a wall.

Lower: Fragment of predella on black background (PAP inventory number 86078)

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U. et al, 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis, I. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.222 and 244, and 248).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. April 2019. Photographed on display in Antiquarium.
III Style fragment of fresco with a candelabra, at the centre of which the head of Medusa is recognisable. 
This fragment was found in 1983, together with numerous others, in the garden area.
They were from a room damaged following the 62AD earthquake
See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U. et al, 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis, I. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.222 and 248).
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to PPM –
Many fragments were found in the garden area near to room 31, including a fragment of a predella (not photographed here but can be seen in PPM).
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. VI. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p.144, no.186 for photograph.
Kuivalainen describes this fragment (P 87280) –
“Hortus conclusus with green terrain, plants, and a white statue and a beast, in the foreground of a round yellow pavilion (tholos). The statue on the pedestal is of a standing youth with his weight on his right foot. Around his waist is a long cloak, on his head a wreath, in his down-stretched right hand he holds an object, probably a cantharus, and in his left arm he holds an upright thyrsus with a bunch upwards. On his right side by his feet stands a panther with his back to the viewer, with his head lifted towards the object. Garlands hang from the conical roof of the tholos.
Comments: A young almost naked Bacchus as a marble statue. Among remaining Pompeian marble statuary the youth is mainly presented naked. The position of the panther’s head indicates that the object in his master’s hand is a vessel for wine.”
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.112, C10).

VI.17.42 Pompeii. April 2019. Photographed on display in Antiquarium.

III Style fragment of fresco with a candelabra, at the centre of which the head of Medusa is recognisable.

This fragment was found in 1983, together with numerous others, in the garden area.

They were from a room damaged following the 62AD earthquake

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U. et al, 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis, I. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.222 and 248).

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

According to PPM –

Many fragments were found in the garden area near to room 31, including a fragment of a predella (not photographed here but can be seen in PPM).

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. VI. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p.144, no.186 for photograph.

Kuivalainen describes this fragment (PAP 87280) –

“Hortus conclusus with green terrain, plants, and a white statue and a beast, in the foreground of a round yellow pavilion (tholos). The statue on the pedestal is of a standing youth with his weight on his right foot. Around his waist is a long cloak, on his head a wreath, in his down-stretched right hand he holds an object, probably a cantharus, and in his left arm he holds an upright thyrsus with a bunch upwards. On his right side by his feet stands a panther with his back to the viewer, with his head lifted towards the object. Garlands hang from the conical roof of the tholos.

Comments: A young almost naked Bacchus as a marble statue. Among remaining Pompeian marble statuary the youth is mainly presented naked. The position of the panther’s head indicates that the object in his master’s hand is a vessel for wine.”

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.112, C10).

 

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VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2016, photographed on display in the Antiquarium.

Fragment of III Style, showing two hippos with open jaws. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U. et al, 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis, I. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.222 and 251).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii.  Bone spoon (On the left). SAP 14259. Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum.  September 2009.

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Bone spoon (On the left). PAP 14259.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

 

 

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