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I.3.3 Pompeii. Domus of Epidius Fortunatus.

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

Upper Peristyle.

 

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, looking north along west portico showing view of light well holes providing illumination to lower underground rooms. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Upper peristyle area, looking north along west portico showing view of light well holes providing illumination to lower underground rooms.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of light-well hole to lower house. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of light-well hole to lower house. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of light-well hole to lower house. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of light-well hole to lower house. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of light-well hole to lower house. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of light-well hole to lower house. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

1.3.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Upper peristyle area, looking south-west across garden area from north-east corner. A tufa puteal, and remains of brick columns covered in stucco and painted red can be seen. According to Jashemski, the garden was enclosed on the west, north and east sides by a portico. The portico was supported by 10 columns and 2 engaged columns leaning against the south wall. The columns were made of brick and covered with stucco painted red. There was a gutter around the edges of the garden on the west, north and east. According to Mau, there were 2 cistern openings, one in the north-east corner of the garden, with a tufa puteal, the other opening in the corresponding corner of the portico. See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.26)

1.3.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Upper peristyle area, looking south-west across garden area from north-east corner.

A tufa puteal, and remains of brick columns covered in stucco and painted red can be seen.

According to Jashemski, the garden was enclosed on the west, north and east sides by a portico.

The portico was supported by 10 columns and 2 engaged columns leaning against the south wall.

The columns were made of brick and covered with stucco painted red. 

There was a gutter around the edges of the garden on the west, north and east. 

According to Mau, there were 2 cistern openings, one in the north-east corner of the garden, with a tufa puteal, the other opening in the corresponding corner of the portico. 

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.26)

See Mau, A: Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, p,181-182,

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of tufa puteal or well-head, looking east. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of tufa puteal or well-head, looking east.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The puteal, looking west along the north portico. See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.9), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. According to Warscher, “Il puteale prova che sotto la parte orientale del peristilio è situata una cisterna. Mentre – sotto la parte occidentale si trovano le camere mezzo-sotteraneo: sotto la parte nord-ovest è un bagno, sotto la parte sud-ovest sono camere per lavori manuali. Sarebbe non senza interesse l’investigare la disposizione di quella cisterna tanto più che nel peristilio si trovano i tubi dell’acquedotto. Tutto ci fa credere che questi tubi siano stati messi in relazione con questa cisterna più antica.” (translation: “The puteal proves that under the eastern side of the peristyle was a cistern. While – under the western part were the half-underground rooms: under the north-west part was a baths area, under the south-west part were rooms for manual labor. It would not be without interest to investigate the arrangement of that cistern especially as the pipes of the aqueduct were in the peristyle. Everything leads us to believe that these tubes were made in connection with this most ancient cistern.")

I.3.3 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. The puteal, looking west along the north portico.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.9), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

According to Warscher, “Il puteale prova che sotto la parte orientale del peristilio è situata una cisterna.

Mentre – sotto la parte occidentale si trovano le camere mezzo-sotteraneo: sotto la parte nord-ovest è un bagno, sotto la parte sud-ovest sono camere per lavori manuali. Sarebbe non senza interesse l’investigare la disposizione di quella cisterna tanto più che nel peristilio si trovano i tubi dell’acquedotto.

Tutto ci fa credere che questi tubi siano stati messi in relazione con questa cisterna più antica.”

(translation: “The puteal proved that under the eastern side of the peristyle was a cistern. 

While – under the western part were the half-underground rooms: under the north-west part was a baths area, under the south-west part were rooms for manual labor.

It would not be without interest to investigate the arrangement of that cistern especially as the pipes of the aqueduct were in the peristyle. 

Everything leads us to believe that these tubes were made in connection with this most ancient cistern.")

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher from the north-east corner of the peristyle. To the right, the north portico with a pipe from the acqueduct. The pipe was also found along the west portico. The remains of the pipe of the acqueduct could be seen in both the north and west portico. In the north-west corner, on the right, the recess for the triclinium couch can be seen. The house can be found opposite the theatres. See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.10a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. According to Jashemski, quoting Mau, there were two cistern openings, one in the north-east corner of the garden, with a tufa puteal, the other opening in the corresponding corner of the portico. Water emptied at the north-east corner from the gutter into the cistern and into the street at the south-east and south-west corners. Between the gutter and the portico there was an aqueduct pipe which came out of the first column, counting from the south, on the west portico. Supporting itself on the second column on the west side, the pipe rose to give a jet of water in the gutter. Flanking the west portico and the one to the north, it disappeared towards the north-east. Twice, on the west side, by a widening of the pipe, it was possible to let water flow into the gutter. The gutter at precisely these two points had openings towards the garden which the apparatus served to water. Before and after the widening of the pipe, it could be closed by a key. Two branches of this pipe entered the room in the Subterannean Level in which there was a tank, off the north-west corner of the peristyle. See Mau, BdI, 1874, pp.181-182. See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, (p.26).

I.3.3 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher from the north-east corner of the peristyle.

To the right, the north portico with a pipe from the aqueduct. The pipe was also found along the west portico.

The remains of the pipe of the aqueduct could be seen in both the north and west portico.

In the north-west corner, on the right, the recess for the triclinium couch can be seen.

The house can be found opposite the theatres.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.10a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

According to Jashemski, quoting Mau, there were two cistern openings, one in the north-east corner of the garden, with a tufa puteal, the other opening in the corresponding corner of the portico.

Water emptied at the north-east corner from the gutter into the cistern and into the street at the south-east and south-west corners.

Between the gutter and the portico there was an aqueduct pipe which came out of the first column, counting from the south, on the west portico.

Supporting itself on the second column on the west side, the pipe rose to give a jet of water in the gutter.

Flanking the west portico and the one to the north, it disappeared towards the north-east.

Twice, on the west side, by a widening of the pipe, it was possible to let water flow into the gutter.

The gutter at precisely these two points had openings towards the garden which the apparatus served to water.

Before and after the widening of the pipe, it could be closed by a key.

Two branches of this pipe entered the room in the Subterranean Level in which there was a tank, off the north-west corner of the peristyle.

See Mau, Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1874, pp.181-182.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas, (p.26).

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of fallen column in peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of fallen column in peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of fallen column in peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of fallen column in peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of fallen column in peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, detail of fallen column in peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, showing detail of standing column in peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, showing detail of standing column in peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, showing close up detail of plasterwork fluting on standing column. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, showing close-up detail of plasterwork fluting on standing column.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, looking south along east side of peristyle, with overview of columns. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker. According to Fiorelli, on another column in the opposite row, towards the eastern side, was written: Q SPVRENNIVS PRISCVS PRIM PILAR PILAR See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.38) According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 3992 read as – Q(uintus) Spurennius Priscus prim(i)pilar(is) (primi)pilar(is) According to Mau, “To the same division of the Army probably belonged a centurion of the first rank, Q. Spurennius Priscus, whose name was found in a house at I.III.3” A similar description was found in VIII.3.21 and related to the fifth praetorian cohort, of the century led by Martialis. See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.492)

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Upper peristyle area, looking south along east side of peristyle, with overview of columns.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

According to Fiorelli,

on another column in the opposite row, towards the eastern side, was written:

Q  SPVRENNIVS PRISCVS

    PRIM   PILAR

                 PILAR

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.38)

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 3992 read as –

Q(uintus) Spurennius Priscus

prim(i)pilar(is)

(primi)pilar(is)

 

According to Mau, “To the same division of the Army probably belonged a centurion of the first rank, Q. Spurennius Priscus, whose name was found in a house at I.III.3”

A similar description was found in VIII.3.21 and related to the fifth praetorian cohort, of the century led by Martialis.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.492)

 

 

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 neighbourhood, 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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