VIII.4.4 Pompeii. Domus M. Holconi Rufi or House of Holconius Rufus.

Linked to VIII.4.2, VIII.4.3, VIII.4.5, VIII.4.6, VIII.4.49 and VII.4.50.

Excavated 1766, 1855 and 1861. (Strada d’Olconio 4).

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VIII.4.4 Pompeii. January 2010. 

Entrance to house, on the left, and linked shop at VIII.4.3, on the right.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance.

In June 1855, painted graffiti were found on the pilaster on the left of the entrance, between VIII.4.5 and 4.

 

Capellam

d(uum)v(irum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)   [CIL IV 729]

 

L(ucium)  C(eium)  S(ecundum)  II vir(um)

(......)  

facit   [CIL IV 780]

 

Postumium   [CIL IV 781]

 

L(ucium)  C(eium)  S(ecundum)    [CIL IV 781a]

 

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples, Nicola Longobardi.  (p.173)

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. July 2011. Looking south through fauces, across atrium, through tablinum, to peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii.  March 2009. 

Looking south through fauces, across atrium, through tablinum, to peristyle.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance corridor or fauces, east wall.

Originally these walls would have been painted black in the upper part, red at the lower part and divided into three panels by green lines.

These panels contained paintings of aquatic birds.

High up on the black wall, in the middle of painted fantasy architecture, were paintings of nymphs.

These were detached and taken to Naples Museum at the time of their discovery.

According to Richardson, these were

Floating figure carrying a wreath of ivy. (Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9149) (Helbig 1909)

Floating figure carrying the baetylus sceptre of Venus. (Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9300) (Helbig 1920)

Floating figure carrying a calathus. (Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9144) (Helbig 1913)

Floating figure carrying a looking-glass. This painting seems to have been lost. (Helbig 1942)

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins. (p.156)

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

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance corridor or fauces, west wall.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, impluvium in atrium, together with blocked cistern.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 2, the rear room of shop at VIII.4.5

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, east wall.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 3.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, looking east.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, ala on east side.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall of ala.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall. 

Remains of wall painting of Apollo and Daphne.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (209).

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, south wall.

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii. September 2005. Room 4, south wall of the ala on the east side of the atrium. 

Remains of painting of Hercules (Fiorelli also refers to a female figure) and a seated male figure who holds two lances.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.126).

 

VIII.4.4 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 4, south wall.  

Wall painting of Alcestis, on left, Hercules, in the centre, recognisable by the lion skin, Admetus, sitting on the right. 

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici.  Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana.

See also Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1149).

 

 

 

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