VIII.2.29 Pompeii. House of Severus. Linked to VIII.2.30.

Excavated 1767, 1883, 1928.

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VIII.6.1 Pompeii. December 2005. Via della Regina, looking east.          VIII.2.29 on right.

 

Fountain at VIII.2.29, Pompeii. December 2005. Looking west.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. East side of entrance doorway.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking south from entrance doorway.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Mosaic in entrance corridor.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north across remains of impluvium in atrium towards entrance doorway.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005.

Looking north across tablinum to atrium and entrance doorway.

In the north-west corner of the atrium would have been a masonry lararium, (in the area to the left of the brick pilasters).

According to Boyce, this lararium was later in date than the stucco of the walls of the room. The walls were in the IVth Style.

Around the base of the lararium ran a dado of marble.

In this corner of the atrium the black border in the mosaic pavement was made to run around the two sides of the podium.

This marked its position.

According to Mau, some other object stood here before the construction of the lararium.

These would have been either the arca for the money, or a smaller and more modest lararium, which was then enlarged.

Not. Scavi, 1883, 135. Bull. Inst, 1885, pp.88, 93.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.74, no. 346)

According to Giacobello, only the podium survives of the aedicula in the north-west corner of the atrium.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico.  Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.247)

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north across tablinum to atrium and entrance doorway.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006.

Corridor on west side of tablinum leading to rooms at rear, and stairs to lower level.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Stairs to lower level

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south on lower level.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006. Small vaulted underground room on east of corridor

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east into second room along corridor.

The hole in wall is looking east into rear room.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking east on lower level into a large vaulted room, from the corridor.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. May 2006. Doorway with arched opening in rear north wall.

 

VIII.2.29 Pompeii. September 2005. Arched opening in north wall.

 

 

 

 

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