IX.2.12 Pompeii. Taberna Attiorum 2. Excavated 1851. (Strada Stabiana 66)

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance. 

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance, looking south on Via Stabiana.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of shop.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2004. East wall of shop, with doorway to rear rooms.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east through rear door towards steps to upper floor.

 

IX.2.12  Pompeii. December 2007. Steps at rear, to upper floor.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway in east wall to rear rooms.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Window in east wall of shop.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across shop, with niche in north wall.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of shop.

 

IX.2.12 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche in north wall.

According to Boyce, this square niche was painted red on the inside, the same as the one found in IX.2.11.

He said that one or both of them may have been lararia.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.80-81)

 

Street altar on SW side of IX.2.12 on Vicolo di Balbo, looking east from Via Stabiana.

According to Fiorelli, at this point was a painting of two large serpents approaching  a niche hollowed out of the wall.

Underneath was the effigy of the altar among luxurious plants.

Above the painting and continuing on the same wall, there remained various electoral programmes.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 142)

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (F61)

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (29)

 

 

In April 1848, on two pilasters on the left side of Via Stabiana in the south-west corner of IX.2, it was possible to read

 

Q(uintum)  Marium    [CIL IV 926]

 

M(arcum)  Holconium  Priscum  II v(irum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)    [CIL IV 927]

 

Sabinum  aed(ilem)    [CIL IV 928]

 

and around the corner of this second pilaster leading into the small vicolo, was found

 

Gavium  Rufum

II vir(um)

i(ure)  d(icundo)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)

Q(uintum)  Marium  Rufum    [CIL IV 929]

 

Cn(aeum)  Helvium  Sabinum  aed(ilem)    [CIL IV 930]

 

 

In November 1852, painted in red, in the south-west corner of IX.2 following from no.66 were:

 

Popidium  Rufum  II vir(um)  d(ignum)  r(ei)  p(ublicae)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)     [CIL IV 931]

 

Popidium  II v(irum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  Iuventus

rog(at)    [CIL IV 932]

 

P(ublium)  Paquium  Proculum

II vir(um)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  Thalamus  cliens  facit    [CIL IV 933]

 

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

(p. 164 and p. 167)

 

Street altar on SW side of IX.2.12 on Vicolo di Balbo looking east from Via Stabiana.