I.2.3 Pompeii. Casa con colonna etrusca. Linked to I.2.2 and I.2.4.

Excavated 1872. Bombed 1943.

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1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Rear (east) wall of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Warscher described this photo as a part of the north wall of triclinium “d”.

Describing Fiorelli, Descrizione, p.37, she quoted:

“I.2.3 “Di fronte all’ingresso si trovano il tablino (e) ed il triclinio (d), in cui è notevole un grande masso di lava vesuviana dell’età preistorica, a cui fu addossato uno dei muri (nord) di questa stanza, e che prolungasi internamente sotto le fondazioni delle camere adiacenti”.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.9), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.  

(translation: "I. 2.3" facing the entrance you will find the tablinum (e) and the triclinium (d), in which it was noted there was a large boulder of vesuvian lava of prehistoric age, which was leaning against one of the walls (north wall) of this room, and that it extended internally under the foundations of the adjacent rooms”.)

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north in triclinium at site of north wall (and lava outcrop). Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across remains of south wall of triclinium, into tablinum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from triclinium, towards atrium and Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east across atrium towards tablinum, in centre.

I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Tablinum and corridor to garden area.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east into tablinum, from atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. East (rear) wall of tablinum, with blocked aperture. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from tablinum into atrium, and towards Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Boyce, on the south wall of the atrium was a rectangular niche.

(This can be seen on the left at the side of the wooden beam wall-support).

On the wall below were two serpents and an altar, all done in white stucco relief upon a rectangular red panel.

There was also a painted figure of the Genius with cornucopia and patera.  No traces remain.

In the same wall, to the right and higher, was a second niche.

(This can be seen in the centre of the photo, behind the other wooden beam wall-support).

This was smaller and had a vaulted ceiling.

Fiorelli referred to both these niches as lararia, but according to Boyce, this second niche served another purpose.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p.21 No.3 and Pl.9,2)

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.34)

See Warscher, T., 1925. Pompeji: Ein Führer durch die Ruinen. Berlin und Leipzig: de Gruyter. (p.212, Abb.52)

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.38, Fig 20)

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1935 photo by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking towards the south wall of the atrium, with a single table-leg in the centre.

In the south wall are a cupboard/recess and two niches for the household Lares, underneath can be seen the two serpents coiling around an altar, in stucco relief.

Warscher described the atrium as –

“I.2.3, l’atrio con un monopodio in mezzo.

Nella parete sud – sono un armadio e due nicchie per i Lari, sotto una delle quali sono effigiati in stucco a rilievo i due serpenti.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.2), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.      

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1935 photo by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking south across atrium, with remains of impluvium, and single-legged monopodium.

In the south wall the two niches for the household Lares, under which the two serpents in stucco relief can be seen.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.2a), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.   

I.2.3 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39.

Photo in AAR archive dated pre-1937-39. Looking towards south wall of atrium, with lararium.

It seems to be the same as the one dated by Warscher as 1912 in the DAIR copy of the codex.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 556.

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1912 photo by Tatiana Warscher. Lararium in the south wall of the atrium.

Warscher noted that the photo was taken by her in 1912 (on her honeymoon!).

When writing the DAIR copy of the Codex (1935) she wrote –

“Adesso i serpenti sono in uno stato peggiore. Il Genio familiare con patera e cornucopia non esisteva già nell’anno 1912”.

(translation: “Now the serpents are in a bad state. The Genius with plate and cornucopia did not exist even by 1912”.)

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.3), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.      

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east along south wall of atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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