I.3.8 Pompeii. Two houses both entered via a common angiportus.

I.3.8a Pompeii. Unnamed house. Excavated 1868.    

I.3.8b Pompeii. House of Vulcanus. Excavated 1869.

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I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards remains of south wall of tablinum.

At the rear can be seen the corridor to the kitchen. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south through doorway in south-east corner of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Partially blocked doorway, or remains of a window in south wall of corridor. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east towards south-central doorway from east portico of peristyle, towards kitchen at rear. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Boyce, somewhere along the east wall of the peristyle was a niche.

In the niche, a terracotta statuette of Minerva was found.

She was wearing a helmet and holding a shield on her left arm and holding a patera in her right hand.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.24, no.22)

Giornali degli Scavi, N.S. I, 1869, p. 301.

Boyce gave a note 1 on page 24, to this entry. It read –

In a room opening off the east side of the peristyle a bronze statuette of Fortuna was found.

She was holding a cornucopia against her left shoulder.

Giornali degli Scavi, N.S., i, 1869, 305.

According to Giacobello – the niche is no longer conserved.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni, (p.252, no.V3)

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west from corridor, through south-central doorway towards east portico.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. Looking across corridor to peristyle.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of rectangular feature against south wall of corridor. Looking west. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of rectangular feature against south wall of corridor. Looking east. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east through doorway into kitchen, at east end of corridor. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west through doorway from kitchen towards corridor. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west across kitchen on east side, through hole in wall from I.3.25

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. North-west corner of kitchen on east side, through hole in wall from I.3.25.

According to Boyce, two arched niches were found on the north wall of the kitchen.

The niches were 0.58 high and 0.36 wide, 0.30 deep and 1.10 above the floor.

The niches were side by side, and 0.60 apart.

He said Fiorelli described them as “nicchie per i domestici Lari”.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 24)

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. North wall with niches. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Fiorelli, “in the kitchen, other than the hearth, one finds two niches for the worship of the domestic gods”.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.39)

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher described as –

Two niches for the household gods, from a rear room.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.25a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of eastern niche in north wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of central niche in east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of western niche in north wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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