I.3.3 Pompeii. Domus of Epidius Fortunatus.

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

West side.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east towards doorway in north-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Fiorelli, this doorway led to the triclinium, the walls were simply decorated.

Each wall was divided into three compartments, two painted red and one yellow.

These walls were adorned with pictures of fish and fruit.

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

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

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

I.3.3 Pompeii. Drawings by Geremia Discanno, 1872, of four panels, two from triclinium, two from tablinum.

On the right, the two panels are from the triclinium.

The top panel from the east wall showing a still-life of a fallen basket with shellfish, the lower from the south wall showing a still-life of Dionisiac offerings.

On the left, the two panels are from the tablinum showing cupids in chariots, being pulled by gazelles and panthers.

The top panel is from the east wall, the lower from either the north or south wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 6.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall and south-east corner of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall and north-east corner of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall and north-west corner of triclinium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

West wall and south-west corner, with doorway to the atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west from triclinium into the north-west corner of the atrium.Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from atrium into tablinum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Fiorelli, the tablinum had walls ornamented by paintings of four chariots driven by cupids.

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

According to Mau, on the three walls were found three small paintings representing cupids leading chariots or carriages.

Each painting was on a white background surrounded by a red striped edge.

See Mau, A: BdI, 1873, (p.236)

According to Sogliano’s description, found in the tablinum on a white background were –

Painting of a cupid on a cart pulled by two goats (357), cupid on a cart pulled by two horses (358), cupid on a cart pulled by two deer, and (destroyed) similar to the above but with the cart represented sideways (360).

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p.62).

I.3.3 Pompeii. Drawings by Geremia Discanno, 1872, of four panels, two from triclinium, two from tablinum.

On the left, the two panels are from the tablinum showing cupids in chariots, being pulled by gazelles and panthers.

The top panel is from the east wall, the lower from either the north or south wall.

On the right, the two panels are from the triclinium.

The top panel from the east wall showing a still-life of a fallen basket with shell-fish, the lower from the south wall showing a still-life of Dionisiac offerings.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 6.

Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

Utilizzabili alle condizioni della licenza Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 Italia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 IT)

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Floor of tablinum.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail from marble floor of tablinum (note - floor orientation darkest section on edge area is towards the south-east corner of the tablinum).

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south along threshold between tablinum on left, and atrium on right. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of marble fragment with inscription near east wall of atrium at south end of the threshold. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west from tablinum, across atrium towards entrance doorway onto Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking east across atrium towards tablinum, steps to upper floor, and south wall. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking east across atrium to doorways to triclinium, tablinum and steps to upper floor.

I.3.3 Pompeii. 1935 photograph by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking east across atrium towards tablinum and stairs leading up to the peristyle area.

The doorway leading to the baths area, on the landing half-way up the stairs, can be seen in the left wall on the stairs.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no. 4), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

According to Warscher, quoting Mau from Bull. Inst.1874, p.177-179, she wrote –

“Salendo adesso la scala del peristilio, dopo sette scalini la troviamo interotta da un piano obbliquo (vedi foto no.4 and 4a) a e da questo verso sinistra per una scala di mattone si scende in certi compresi mezzo sotteranei situati poco piu alti della parte meridionale…..”

(translation: "Going up the stairs to the peristyle, after seven steps was a landing (see photo No. 4 and 4a) and from this landing one goes down to the left by a brick step into some rooms which are half-subterranean located a little bit higher than the southern part (of the house)……”

Quoting Fiorelli, in Descr. p.50, she wrote – “Attigua al tablino era la gradinata che menava al peristilio; ma a metà dell’erta s’incontra una breve discesa, che introduce ad un complesso di piccole stanze destinate forse al bagno, nella prima delle quali evvi vasca che prendeva acqua di una fistola di piombe.”

(translation: “Adjacent to the tablinum was the stairs that led up to the peristyle. But halfway alert one met a short descent, that led to a complex of small rooms used perhaps as the baths area, in the first of which was a water tank that took water from a lead pipe. "

I.3.3 Pompeii, but numbered as I.2.3 on photo. 1935.  

Looking east across atrium towards tablinum and stairs leading up to the peristyle area.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 529.

I.3.3 Pompeii. 1935 photograph by Tatiana Warscher. Looking east across atrium towards tablinum and stairs leading up to the peristyle area.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no. 4a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east from the south-east corner of the atrium towards tufa staircase to upper level. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Staircase to upper level.

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