VII.6.27 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to VII.6.26. 

Excavated 1868, 1873, 1910. Bombed in 1943.

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 re-interred.

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).

May 2005. VII.6.27Pompeii. Looking west towards entrance.

According to Eschebach, a graffito was found here –

C(asellium) Marcellum aed(ilem) v(irum) b(onum) d(ignum) r(ei) [p(ublicae)] o(ro) [v(os) f(aciatis]    [CIL IV 541]

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.296)

VII.6.27 Pompeii. September 2005.

Site of rooms around south and east side of atrium of VII.6.28, and in the right lower corner, the site to VII.6.27, after the bombing.

VII.6.27 in lower right-side corner, with VII.6.28 on left and in background. September 2005.

According to Fiorelli and Eschebach, this shop had a staircase to the upper floor against the west wall, a doorway linking to VII.6.26 in the east wall, and a rear room.

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.296)

VII.7 Pompeii.  May 2005. Vicolo dei Soprastanti looking west with VII.6.27, on the right.

VII.6.28 with white step/VII.6.27/VII.6.26, May 2005. Looking towards entrances.