IX.11.8 Pompeii. Corner shop or caupona? Only partly excavated c.1912.

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Via dell’Abbondanza, looking north.

According to Eschebach this was a shop or caupona, with two doorways, another on the vicolo on the east side of the insula.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.447)

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2006. Graffiti on front wall, east of doorway, at east end of insula.

CIL IV 7889 and 7890 were found here, only the first line of CIL IV 7889 has been conserved, but it is illegible now.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.438-439)

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

Cn(aeum)  Helvium Sabinum

aed(ilem)  v(os)  o(ro)  f(aciatis)  rog(at)         [CIL IV 7889]

C(aium)  Gauium  Rufum  d(uumvirum)  i(ure)  d(icundo)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7890]

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2006. Graffito on front wall at east end of insula -

Cn(aeum)  Helvium Sabinum

aed(ilem)  v(os)  o(ro)  f(aciatis)  rog(at)         [CIL IV 7889]

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2006.   Roadway looking north into unexcavated area       IX.12.1

IX.11.8 Pompeii. May 2006. Roadway, looking north into unexcavated area.   IX.12.1