VII.6.15 Pompeii. Bar. Linked to VII.6.13 and VII.6.14.

Excavated 1868, 1910.

According to Garcia y Garcia Region VII, Insula VI was one of the insulae most devastated over the years since its excavation.

He calls it the “cinderella” of Pompeii. Between the years 1759 and 1762 it was vandalised and stripped by the Bourbons, then reinterred.

Then came the slow and non-systematic uncovering again before the final destruction in September 1943.

The area was ignored and abandoned during the years following the war, which reduced the insula to a heap of bricks and masonry.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.102).

VII.6.15 Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking west across bar-room. On the right is the two-sided sales-counter with only one urn.

VII.6.15 Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking west across north side of bar-room with one urn in the remains of sales-counter.

VII.6.15 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west across south side of bar-room.

In the south wall, in the left-front of the photo, is a doorway leading through to the long room.

In the south-west corner at the rear can be seen the remains of a structure.

Fiorelli called it  “un sedile di Fabbrica” (a seat of masonry).

Eschebach called it a “zweischenkeliger Herd” (a two-sided Hearth).

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore.(p.160)

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.294)

VII.6.15 Pompeii. May 2005. West wall of bar-room.

VII.6.16 Pompeii. December 2004 (on left) and

VII.6.15, long room linked by doorway to bar-room, perhaps used by the clients (on right).

Looking west.