VIII.3.24 Pompeii. House of Plotilla or Casa d’Apolline e Coronide.

Excavated 1815, 1839.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance fauces, north wall. 

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance fauces or corridor. 

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007.

South side of peristyle taken from south-east corner of VIII.3.27.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across peristyle.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north-east across peristyle.

In the photo above, the doorway that can be seen right of centre leads to a kitchen and latrine.

Found on the plaster facing the hearth, written in faint letters was the graffito –

AELIVS . MAGNVS . PLOTILLAE SVAE

                                      ROGO DOMINA SALVTEM        [CIL IV 1991]

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.125)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this read as -

Aelius  Magnus  Plotillae  suae

rogo  domina  salutem       [CIL IV 1991]

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north across peristyle.