I.5.1 Pompeii. Casa dei capitelli etruschi.

Excavated 1873 to 1874. Bombed in 1943.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway to I.5.1 in portico, looking south across entrance room towards rear of property. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Doorway to I.5.1 in portico, looking south across entrance room towards rear of property.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway of I.5.1 onto Vicolo del Conciapelle, looking north towards I.2.28 on opposite side of the vicolo.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Doorway of I.5.1 onto Vicolo del Conciapelle, looking north towards I.2.28 on opposite side of the vicolo. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of threshold. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway to first room on east side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway from first room, looking west into entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Doorway from first room, looking west into entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Window in north wall of first room, looking north on to Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Window in north wall of first room, looking north on to Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway to second room on east side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway from second room, looking west into entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north across entrance room, from rear room on south side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north across entrance room, from rear room on south side of entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from window in rear room, looking onto unnamed vicolo and west towards Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west from window in rear room, looking onto unnamed vicolo and west towards Via Stabiana.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.5.1 and unnamed vicolo on its west side, looking south. December 2006.

I.5.1 Pompeii, with a portico or structure outside. Model in Naples Archaeological Museum.

1.5.1 and I.5.2 Pompeii, structure between entrances, restored and renovated, with a new roof. May 2010.

I.5.1 and I.5.2 Pompeii, with new roofs. Looking east from the Triangular Forum. May 2010.

I.5.1 and I.5.2 Pompeii, with new roofs. May 2010. Looking east from the Triangular Forum.

I.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Stone bridge over Vicolo del Conciapelle looking east, I.5.1 on right.

I.2 Pompeii. December 2006. Stone bridge over Vicolo del Conciapelle looking east. I.5.1 on right.

Bridge over Vicolo del Conciapelle looking east, from outside I.5.1. December 2006.

Bridge over Vicolo del Conciapelle looking east, from outside I.5.1. 1936, taken by Tatiana Warscher.
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains. (no.42c)

Bridge over Vicolo del Conciapelle looking east, from outside I.5.1.

1935, taken by Tatiana Warscher.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.42c), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

This extract from Tatiana Warscher’s “Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5” (1936) appears at the end of all the properties in I.5 on this website.

Warscher, quoting Mau in Bull. Inst.1875, p.25, described Vicolo del Conciapelle as via tertia, -

“L’insula 5 della Regione I è quasi tutta occupata dalla conceria. Fuori di essa non vi è che il compreso rozzo sul lato E ed una bottega con tre camere sul cantone NO”

(Translation: Insula 5 of Region I was nearly all occupied by a tannery. Outside of this, there was nothing other than a coarse complex on its east side, and a shop with three rooms in the north-west corner of the insula).

Quoting Sogliano in Giornale degli Scavi N.S. III, no.21, 1874, p.8, she wrote –

“Chiameremo 5 per l’ordine cronologico dei cavamenti quest’isola della I Regione, la quale per essere parallela e vicina alla I doverebbe piuttosto dirsi 2.

Considerando la parte finora scoverta, osserviamo a prima vista che la sua costruzione offre in taluni punti grandi lastre del tufo di Sarno, in altri quello di Nocera, e per lo più l’opus incertum.

I tre vicoli, che rasentano ad oriente, settentrione ed occidente, non sono lastricati; il settentrionale è accessibile solo per i due altri margines, ricongiunti nel mezzo di esso da un piccolo ponte in fabbrica.

Quest’isola, per la sua situazione presso la porta Stabiana e per la sua località, sembra sia stata abitata in gran parte da persone viventi col commercio e coll’industria”.

See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

(Translation: we will call insula 5 for the chronological order of the excavating of this insula of Region I, which being parallel and near to insula 1, should rather be called 2. Considering the part already excavated, we see at first glance that its construction offers in some places large slabs of Sarno tufa, Nocera tufa in other places, and mostly opus incertum. The three vicoli, that border to the East, North and West, are not paved; the North was accessible only by its two other sides, reuniting in the middle of it by a small masonry bridge.This insula, for its situation near the Stabian Gate and due to its location, seems to have been inhabited largely by persons living with commerce and industry.")

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