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

or House of the Wedding of Alexander.

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VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Staircase 14 down to lower level.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden. North wall.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden, north wall.

Wall painting of Dionysus and Ariadne. SAP 41658.

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

According to Richardson this is from the same room as Alexander and Roxanne.

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins. (p. 126).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden, north wall.

Detail of Dionysus from wall painting of Dionysus and Ariadne. SAP 41658.

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

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden.

Detail of Ariadne from wall painting of Dionysus and Ariadne. SAP 41658.

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

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden, north wall.

Detail of Silenus from wall painting of Dionysus and Ariadne. SAP 41658.

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

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden. West end of north wall.

Architectural painting.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Wall painting of maenad and young satyr. SAP 20555.

Found at the west end of the north wall of the large triclinium with a vaulted ceiling.

See Conticello, B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 239, 164).

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U., 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend. (p. 126).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden. Centre of north wall.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. May 2006. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden. East end of north wall.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden, east end of north wall.

Wall painting of two unidentified women, possibly Phaedra with her elderly nurse. SAP 20544.

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

See Aoyagi M. and Pappalardo U., 2006. Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) Insula Occidentalis. Napoli: Valtrend. (p.132).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden.

The window in the east wall at rear leads to a second decorated room.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden. South wall.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. South wall of triclinium 20 overlooking garden.

Wall painting known as the wedding of Alexander and Roxanne.

The house was originally named after this painting.

Scholars now debate whether the woman is his first wife Roxanne or his second wife Stateira.

According to Richardson this is from the same room as Bacchus and Ariadne.

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins. (p. 126).

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20, decorated ceiling.

 

VI.17.42 Pompeii. December 2007. Triclinium 20 overlooking garden.

Detail of bird painting. Painting of an eagle with wings spread.

 

 

 

 

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