IX.5.14 Pompeii. House of the Restaurant or Casa di Lupanare piccolo?  

Linked to IX.5.15 & IX.5.16. Excavated 1878.

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IX.5.15 Pompeii,   and       IX.5.14. May 2005. Entrances.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west from entrance corridor, across atrium.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance fauces mosaic floor.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north-west across atrium.

The doorway to the peristyle can be seen on the left.

The doorway to a triclinium can be seen on the right (not photographed)

According to PPP, this room is “room f”, and found in it were the under-mentioned paintings.

According to Richardson, the same paintings were found in triclinium “o” -

All now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

Pyramus and Thisbe,   (Naples Inventory number 111483)

Pair of men before an enthroned queen (Aeneas before Dido?)   (Naples Inventory number 111480)

Bacchus and Ariadne with thiasus   (Naples Inventory number 111481)

See Richardson, L., 2000. A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum. Baltimore: John Hopkins. (p.153)

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking east across mosaic floor of fauces, from atrium towards entrance doorway.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west across atrium towards the portico.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west across impluvium.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. Wall with painting cut from it.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Painted wall in cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Wall painting of Europa on side of bull, found on south wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.23, no.81)

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.483)

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Detail of wall painting of Europa on side of bull, found on south wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.23, no.81)

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.483)

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Wall painting of Hercules and Omphale, found on north wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.483)

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.82, no.496)

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Wall painting of Hercules and Omphale, found on north wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.483)

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005. East wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

North end of painted east wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

 

IX.5.14 Pompeii. May 2005.

Wall painting of Ariadne and Dionysus with panther and a statue of Pan, found on east wall of cubiculum on south side of entrance doorway.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.483)

 

 

 

 

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