I.12.16 Pompeii.  House with painted labrum.

Excavated 1962.

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I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 1. Atrium.  South wall with niche.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 1. Atrium. 

South wall with painted niche.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 1. Atrium.  South wall. Niche.

On the back wall stands Bacchus wearing a red mantel and holding a Thyrsus.

Underneath is a painted brown serpent that appears to come from a real hole in the bottom left corner.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L28, T:29,1).

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 1. Atrium.  South wall.  Remains of painted Lararium.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 1. Atrium. 

South wall.  Niche. Painted brown serpent.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 1. Atrium. 

South wall. Top of niche decorated with red and yellow flowers. 

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 1. Atrium. 

South wall.  Painted flowers in niche, with bunches of grapes.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 1. Atrium. 

East side. Looking north west towards rooms 3, 4 and 6.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 4.  Corridor leading to garden area at rear.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 4. 

East wall with garden painting behind the small L-shaped planting bed, with raised edging.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 4.  East wall. Garden painting.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 4.  East wall. Garden painting.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 4.  East wall. Detail of Garden painting.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.  Room 4.  East wall.  Garden painting.  Detail of fountain or labrum.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 4.  East wall.

Garden painting. Detail of wooden trellis fencing.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009.   Room 4.  East wall.

Garden painting.  Detail of flowers above the fountain.

 

I.12.16 Pompeii.  March 2009. Room 4. 

East wall.  North end.  Detail of Garden painting.

 

 

 

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