I.3.26 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to I.3.25. Excavated 1869.

I.3.26 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west towards entrance from Vicolo del Citarista, (note blocked doorway).

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Warscher, this was a shop with a high podium against the wall on the left side of the entrance doorway.

In the rear wall was a doorway (now blocked) leading to a rear room linked to the atrium of I.3.25.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: DAI, Rome. 

I.3.26 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

A part of the street facade wall on the south side of the entrance doorway.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.73), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.26 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate on south side of entrance doorway.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.26 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west from entrance.

I.3.26 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west from entrance.

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.”).