VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Casa del Ninfeo or House with Nymphaeum.

Excavated 1758?, 1886, 1928.

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VIII.2.28 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance fauces or corridor, looking south.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking south towards entrance and atrium, from Casa della Regina Carolina.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii and VIII.2.29. September 2005. Looking south-east from Casa della Regina Carolina.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across atrium towards entrance.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Looking north across atrium towards entrance.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-east across atrium.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Rooms on east side of atrium.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Rooms on west side of atrium.

In the north-west corner is a masonry base, just visible to the left of the column.

This was the lararium. The top of it had three small steps of marble (see below).

The aedicula that was originally on the base has disappeared.

On the north wall above the base, when excavated, the figures of the Lares could still be seen.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p74, no.345)

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Three small grey marble steps on top of lararium base.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north across impluvium and columns in atrium.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Found on 28^th June 1758.

Wall painting of a counting frame on a pile of coins, an inscribed open diptych, a cask with fruit and a bag which may contain coins.

The open diptych contains CIL IV 1174.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 4675.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples : Nicola Longobardi.

(p.27 where the last line of CIL IV 1174 is given as “actu cara”)  PAH I, 1, 77.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1725).

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.365)

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 1174 reads

 

Septimea

Acci caese

Marcella

Amaranti

actu(m) Pom(peis)       [CIL IV 1174]

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Found on 28^th June 1758.

Wall painting of a small piece of architecture, two books, two ink stands and a pen, and a semi open scroll with many words visible.

The scroll contained a poem found in several places in Pompeii. See CIL IV 1173.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 4676.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples : Nicola Longobardi. (p.27)  PAH I, 1, 77.

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.62-3).

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1724).

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 1173 reads

 

Quisquis

ama(t) valia(t)

peria(t) qui nescit ama[re]

bis tanti

periapt

quisqu

is amare

vota(t)

felices

adias maneas

o Martia

si te vidi

dum nobis

maxima

cura placet       [CIL IV 1173]

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Found on 8^th July 1758. Wall painting of an arched pier adorned with statues.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9484.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples : Nicola Longobardi. (p.27)  PAH I, 1, 77.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Found on 27^th October 1758.

Wall painting of a ship with a square sail crossing the harbour of a port.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9460.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples : Nicola Longobardi. (p.28)  PAH I, add., 138-139.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. Found on 27^th October 1758.

Wall painting of landscape with buildings next to a river with fishermen on the rocks.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9470.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples : Nicola Longobardi. (p.28)  PAH I, add., 138-139.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. May 2006. Corridor behind Nymphaeum.

 

VIII.2.28 Pompeii. May 2006. Corridor behind Nymphaeum.

 

 

 

 

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