I.2.10 Pompeii. Domus of L & M Volusii Fausti.
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I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north across peristyle area.
The peristyle was badly damaged during the bombing in September 1943.
The remains of the summer biclinium can be seen against the north wall.
In the north wall, on the left, is the square niche. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10
Pompeii. 1972. Looking towards the north-east corner of peristyle garden. Photo
by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The
Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland
Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.2.10 Pompeii. 1964. Looking towards north-east corner of peristyle/garden area.
Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.2.10 Pompeii. 1964. Looking towards east wall in north-east corner. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.2.10 Pompeii. 1964. East wall of garden area Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.2.10 Pompeii. 1964. Detail of remains of painted garden painting on east wall at north end.
Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.2.10 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking towards north wall of garden area with niche.
On the left of the photo is the north wall of the triclinium, the wall with window overlooking garden area can also be seen on the left.
On the right, the storage area under the north couch is visible.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.22), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Niche in north wall of garden area. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
According to Boyce, this had a ledge formed by a tile projecting on the level of its floor: the inside walls were red, the stucco ornaments red, white and blue.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.22, and Pl.1,1)
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.22)
See Pappalardo,
U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per
Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.35)
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p. 252)
I.2.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Niche in north wall of garden.
I.2.10 Pompeii. Statue of Tyche or Fortuna found in tablinum.
It was possibly from the niche in the garden dedicated to the household gods.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number: 109745.
According to Boyce, in the tablinum was found a bronze
statuette of the Genius wearing the toga, a fold of which was drawn over his
head, and holding in his left a cornucopia, in the right a patera. Giornale di Scavi, N.S, iii, 1874, 57
See Boyce G. K.,
1937. Corpus of the Lararia of
Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.22,
no.6, note 1)
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Remains of summer biclinium, built against the north wall of the peristyle garden area.
Below the north couch was a recess providing storage space. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Peristyle garden area.
According to Garcia y Garcia, because of the damage from the bombing in September 1943, there is not much to see of the peristyle anymore.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.37)
According to Jashemski, today the garden is almost totally destroyed.
She wrote, according to Mau, most of the garden was occupied by a large pool (5.40 x2.90m) which sloped towards the west from where it drained through a pipe into the street; the pool was surrounded by a low wall, about 0.55m high.
This left only a narrow space between the pool and the walls.
In the north-west corner were the two couches of the masonry biclinium.
This sloped, as was customary towards the wall so rainwater falling on them was carried away by a terracotta drain.
This drain emptied into the pool.
A square niche under the north couch provided a storage space; on the wall above this couch was a rectangular niche lararium with a roughly made aedicula façade. At the east end of the north couch was a masonry table.
Fiorelli reported a planting bed attached to the rear (east) wall.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.22).
According to
Soprano –
Ubicazione:
viridario. L. medius, m. 2.65; l. imus, m. 2.93; diametro della
mensa, m. 0.93.
Bibliog.
Fiorelli, op. c., p.41; “Bull. Inst”, 1874, p.197;
Viola, op. c., p.9.
Il viridario era
circondata su tutti e quattro i lati da un basso podio sul quale,
probabilmente, venivano coltivati fiori.
Una parte di
questo podio, piu ampia delle rimanenti, precisamente l’angolo N.O., fungeva da
biclinio.
Al momenti dello scavo
i due letti mostravano i piani superiori inclinati, ma cio oggi non e piu
visibile, date le condizioni di conservazione: solo lungo la parete orientale
del letto settentrionale si puo ancora scorgere qualche traccia di intonaco
dipinto.
Un piccolo tubo
di terracotta per lo scolo delle acque sbocca sulla parete anteriore del letto
orientale; una nicchia a cupola piuttosto profonda, che serviva come
ripostiglio, s’apre nella parete verticale del letto settentrionale mentre,
superiormente ad esso, all’ altezza di m. 2.20, una nicchia quadrangolare,
profonda e con edicola, decorata rozzamente a stucco bianco, rosso e turchino,
serviva per il culto dei Lari.
L’ipotesi del
Thedenat che questo biclinio fosse stato costruito in modo di poter essere
trasformato in triclinio con l’aggiunta di un terzo letto di legno, non par
verosimile.
“Bull. Inst.”
= Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR).
According to Fiorelli and Sogliano, the wall in the garden was decorated with paintings.
Fiorelli described, “one comes to the garden, which has a wall opposite decorated with pictures, especially quadrupeds, fish, flowers, trees, with two large bowls, and one finds a flower bed leaning against the same wall for the cultivation of flowers.”
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.35)
Sogliano described a four-sided peristyle, “in the middle we see water with fishes, and above it various beasts, between which we discern a deer and a panther. To the right and to the left are fountains in the form of vases, surrounded by a grove with fruit and flowers.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.144, no.696)
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south-west across rear of house from garden area. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across peristyle area. In the south-east corner (on left) was a large kitchen.
In the south-west corner (on right) was a small room, cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10 Pompeii. December 2006. South wall with kitchen and latrine in south-east corner of garden, on the left.
Cubiculum in the south-west corner of garden, in the centre. Cupboard, with hearth under stairs to upper floor, on the right.
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south towards kitchen area in south-east corner of peristyle.
The north wall of the kitchen was destroyed in September 1943 bombing. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of kitchen area, in south-east corner of peristyle.
A down pipe can be seen in the east wall, on the left of the photo. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
According to Fiorelli, in the big kitchen was a cupboard, which was near to the latrine and preceded by a water-basin.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.35)
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10 Pompeii. December 2006. South-east corner of garden.
I.2.10 Pompeii. December 2006. Remains of kitchen in south-east corner of garden. North wall destroyed in bombing.
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south through doorway into small room in south-west corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.10 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of small room, possibly a cubiculum. The small doorway on the left, leads into the tablinum.
See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.4-5)
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.