I.3.30 Pompeii. Small house. Excavated 1872.

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I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 6, north portico, looking east to doorways to rooms 7 and 8. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 6, north portico, looking east to doorways to rooms 7 and 8.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6. North Portico, looking east to Doorways to Rooms 7 and 8.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, north portico, looking east to doorways to rooms 7 and 8.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 7, looking north through doorway from north portico of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 7, looking north through doorway from north portico of peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, cubiculum showing north wall. According to Fiorelli, painted on one of the walls in this small room was –
XV K AVGVSTAS
PARTISCA ESERNIE
FVIT
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.41)
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this is CIL IV 3388.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, cubiculum showing north wall.

According to Fiorelli, painted on one of the walls in this small room was –

XV K AVGVSTAS

PARTISCA ESERNIE
FVIT

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.41)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this is CIL IV 3388.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 7, looking towards north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 7, looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 7, looking towards south wall with doorway to north portico. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south from peristyle into large room 10, which according to Jashemski would have got its light through the large doorway onto the peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south from peristyle into large room 10, which according to Jashemski would have got its light through the large doorway onto the peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10. Oecus.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, oecus, looking south.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of large room 10. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of large room 10. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north from large room 10 on south side of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south across peristyle garden, towards room 10, and entrance corridor, on right.

On one of the columns in the peristyle was found the graffiti -

Tu, pupa, sic valeas,

sic habeas

Venere Pompeianam

propytia ............ (CIL IV 4007)

May you always be in good health, my girl, and may Pompeian Venus always be well disposed to you.

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.24)

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.90)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), CIL IV 4007 read –

Tu pupa sic valeas

sic habeas

Venere Pompeianum

prop<i=>tia(m)

Munn

I.3.30 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance corridor, looking south to entrance doorway.

I.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west along the unnamed vicolo. I.3.30.

I.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west along the unnamed vicolo, from near I.3.30, on right.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east along unnamed vicolo towards doorway of I.3.30. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east along unnamed vicolo towards doorway of I.3.30.

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 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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