I.2.16 Pompeii. House. Excavated 1872.
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1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking north along east portico towards entrance doorway, from southern end. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010.
Room 6, garden area. Looking west across garden area from southern end of east portico near room 5. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, garden area. Looking north-west from east portico, near room 5.
According to Jashemski, the garden was enclosed by a portico on the north and east sides.
A low wall connected the columns and pillars of the portico and there was an entrance to the garden on the east side.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.22, and fig 18 of the statuette).
I.2.16 Pompeii. October 2023.
Room 6, garden area,
terracotta statuette of the philosopher Antisthenes.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
On
display in “L’altra MANN” exhibition, October 2023, at Naples Archaeological
Museum.
I.2.16 Pompeii. October 2023.
Description card. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
I.2.16 Pompeii. Room 6, garden area.
According to Jashemski, a terracotta statuette (for use as a fountain) of a seated old man was found in the garden.
He was holding a scroll in his right hand and wearing a short-sleeved tunic.
This statuette has been variously identified, but most probably as the Greek philosopher Antisthenes (ca 445-360), devoted follower of Socrates.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 109622.
A terracotta puteal was also found in the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.22, and fig 18 of the statuette).
There is also a description and photograph of the statuette, in
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples, text by Stefano De Caro, (1996), Naples, Electa, (p.210)
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, garden area. Looking west across southern end to south-west corner.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 6, south wall of garden. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, pillar on the south-east corner of the garden area, and painted plaster on the garden wall.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from garden area, towards doorways to rooms 3, 4 and 5. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking north-west across garden area.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.24), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010.
Room 6, garden area. Looking north towards northern end of garden and north portico. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.16 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Room 6, garden area.
Looking north towards northern end of garden and north portico.
According to
Warscher, “Nell’angolo NO del viridario si trova il larario”.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.25), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
(translation: In the north-west corner of the garden area, the lararium was found.”)
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, garden area. Masonry aedicula lararium in north-west corner.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Niche in north-west corner of garden. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Arched niche of lararium.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Arched Niche.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, garden area. Masonry podium of lararium.
According to Boyce, the arched niche was built on top of the solid podium, which were all in a ruinous condition.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.22)
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. North-east corner of garden looking east. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south across garden area from north portico. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, west wall of north portico.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009.
North side of north portico, with doorways to room 8, (left) entrance fauces, (centre) and room 2 (on right).
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north to doorway to room 8, in north portico.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway to room 8. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north wall.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway in south wall of room 8, leading to north portico. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.16 Pompeii. September 2010. South-east corner of room 8. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, south-east corner, and doorway to north portico.
I.2.16 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across room 1, garden area, from north portico.
In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included Viola’s description of the insula, from
Gli scavi di Pompei dal 1873 al 1878, p.10 (Pompei e la regione sotterrata dal
Vesuvio nell’anno 1879, Seconda parte.
This is included at the end in all parts of I.2 on the website.
“Nel dicembre del
1873 incomminciò lo scavo di questa isola – quale dovette essere abitata da
moltissime persone. Infatti non si vede grande lusso di abitazioni, nè grandi
locali, ove i ricchi pompeiani passavano la vita nell’ozio e nel piacere; si
può invece osservare grand’economia di spazio, case piccole miste a botteghe e
ad officine, onde non è difficile argomentare che quivi abitarono persone del
ceto medio, le quali benchè agiate non godevano certamente della più splendide
posizione.
E’ questa
un’isola dove avennero frequentissime trasformazioni, per cui riesce
difficillissimo intravvedere qual’era la sua forma primiera; non mancano però
degli avanzi di costruzioni primitive, insieme ad altri di epoca posteriore,
come si osserva in molti luoghi di Pompei.
La sua area è di
mq.2948, ed è limitata da occidente dal cardo, a settentrione dalla via
secunda, ad oriente dal vico parallelo al cardo e a mezzogiorno dalla via
tertia che la separa dalle isole 1 e 5; il margine che la fiancheggia da tre
lati escluso l’orientale e sulla via tertia di fronte al vano No.28 si vede un
piccolo ponte, formato da massi posti a contrasto, il quale serve per unire i
due margine (vedi la fotografia no.42c)”.
(Note: photo (no.42c) can be seen at I.5.1, I.2.28 and in the “streets” section under Vicolo del Conciapelle).
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. Rome: DAIR.
(translation: "In December of 1873 the excavation of this insula began – which would have been inhabited by many people. In fact you don't see great luxury homes, nor large rooms, where rich Pompeian passed life in idleness and pleasure; if you instead look at the great economy of space, small homes and shops mixed with workshops, it's not difficult to argue that here lived people in the middle class, which however well-to-do they certainly did not enjoy the most splendid position.
This was an insula, where there were frequent transformations, for which it is difficult to glimpse what was the original form; it does not lack however, the remains of primitive constructions, alongside others of a later date, as can be seen in many places in Pompeii.
Its area was 2948 sq. m., and was bounded on the west by the “cardo”, on the north by via secunda, and east by a parallel vicolo to the “cardo” and in the south by the via tertia, that separated it from Insula’s 1 and 5: the border that flanked it by three sides excluding the east and on via tertia opposite No. 28, you will see a small bridge, formed by a boulder placed to serve to unite the two edges, (see photo No. 42 c)."