I.3.3 Pompeii. Domus of Epidius Fortunatus.

Linked to I.3.4 and I.3.31. Excavated 1860.

Rooms on south side of atrium, including kitchen with entrance at I.3.31.

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I.3.31 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east in small room below west portico with vent for light.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

West wall of small room, looking through doorway into wider corridor on north side of kitchen doorways.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north from wider corridor into second triclinium on south side of staircase to upper floor.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south from doorway from second triclinium, across wider corridor towards kitchen area and entrance at I.3.31.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of second triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.31 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across second triclinium towards south-east corner.

This room would have been below the spacious oecus on the west side of the upper peristyle, now collapsed.

I.3.3 Pompeii. May 2005. North-east corner of second triclinium. 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of second triclinium showing recess detail in north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of recess in north-east corner of second triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of second triclinium, looking towards the north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of second triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Mau, when excavated the doorway in this wall was found with a window above it.

The walls of the room were decorated in black painted in the Third Style.

See Mau, A: Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, (p.178)

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of second triclinium, with detail of blocked doorway in north-west corner.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Mau, this blocked doorway led through to the stairway that lead up to the peristyle.

See Mau, A: Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, (p.178-9)

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Entrance leading from the east side of the atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

The lower 7 steps lead to a sloping landing.

On the north (left) side of the landing there is a doorway to further steps leading down to subterranean floor.

A further 5 steps lead east from the landing to upper peristyle.  

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east up the steps.

Clear space top of image leading to upper peristyle part of house.

The doorway on the left leading to the subterranean level. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included a description of the insula.

This description is included at the end in all parts of I.3 on the website.

“L’isola 3 della Regio I apparteneva ai quartieri piuttosto poveri, ad’esenzione della casa no. 3 tutto le case sono di dimensioni non grandi.

La casa no. 3 presenta un interesse dal punto di vista della costruzione: il peristilio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello dell’atrio:

questa particolarità si riscontra solamente in questa casa.

Noi abbiamo un esempio inverso nella casa dell’Ancora nera ove l’atrio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello del peristilio.

Si sente bene nell’isola in questione la vicinanza dell’anfiteatro da una parte e delle caserme dei gladiatori dall’altra.

Non c’è dubbio che le case nos 23, 25 siano state abitato da gladiatori.

(translation: “Insula 3 of Region I belonged to a rather poor neighborhood, with the exception of house No. 3 all the houses were not large in size.

The house at no. 3 had a special interest from the point of view of construction: the peristyle sits at a level higher than that of the atrium: this particularity was found only in this house. We have a contrary example in the House of the Black Anchor where the atrium was located at a higher level than that of the peristyle.

The nearness of the amphitheatre on one side and the gladiators' barracks on the other suited well the inhabitants of the insula in question.

There was no doubt that the houses numbered 23, 25 had been inhabited by gladiators.”).

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