IX.12.2 Pompeii. Stairs to upper floor. Textrina of Rufus.

Linked to IX.12.1. Excavated 1912. Bombed in 1943.

 

IX.12.1/2/3/4/5 Pompeii. September 2004. Upper floors on Via Dell’ Abbondanza.

According to Garcia y Garcia, number 2 and 4 were hit by bombs in the air bombardment on 19th September 1943.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.158)

 

IX.12.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance in centre.

 

IX.12.2 Pompeii. December 2005.

Upper floor showing the different columns of the House of the First Cenaculum and the House of the Second Cenaculum.

 

IX.12.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance, leading to stairs to upper floor.

According to Boyce, on the south side (front) pilaster, visible on the right of the photo, was a painting of Mercury.

This was on the pilaster to the right of the entrance to the stairs leading from the street to the upper floor.

Mercury was shown with a serpent at his feet coiled around an omphalos; the painting on the opposite pilaster had disappeared.

Not. Scavi, 1912, 144f.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.112, no.27)

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (F69)

 

According to Varone and Stefani, found on the pilaster, on the left, between IX.12.1 and IX.12.2 were CIL IV 7896 and 7897.

On the right of the doorway, also found were CIL IV 7898, 7900 and 7903.

In the photo on page 443, a plaster-cast of the stairs in situ was made, and can be seen.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.441-449)

 

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

 

Ampliatum

aed(ilem)         [CIL IV 7896]

 

Vettiu[m 3]       [CIL IV 7897]

 

Valentem

filium  aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 7898]

 

Pansam  aed(ilem)

Amandus  sacerdos  rog(at)         [CIL IV 7900]

 

Balbum  aed(ilem)  d(ignum)  r(ei)  p(ublicae)

[3]fus  facit       [CIL IV 7903]

 

According to Della Corte, he thought this was a textrina, of an unknown Rufus, who was mentioned in an electoral recommendation.

This was CIL IV 7903, found on the pilaster to the right of the stairs.

Not least interesting were the plaster-casts of the stairs, of the wall and door of the latrine, and of the engtrance door to a room to the north.

All plaster-casts that were destroyed in the bombing.

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p. 321-2)

 

IX.12.2 Pompeii.  May 2010. Looking through glass front across IX.12.1 to site of stairs, against east wall.

 

IX.12.2 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to stairs to upper floor, on left, and IX.12.1.

Looking south across Via dell’Abbondanza.

 

IX.12.5, IX.12.4, IX.12.3, IX.12.2 and IX.12.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Taken from the rear, looking south.