V.2.i Pompeii. Casa delle Nozze d’Argento or House of the Silver Wedding

or Domus L. Albucius Celsus.

Excavated between 1891 and 1908.

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V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2005.

Entrance on Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento. 

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  May 2005.  Entrance and Compluvium.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009.  Room 1, Atrium. 

Restored compluvium, originally fitted with Grondaia or antefisse fittili (see picture below).

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007.  Grondaia.

Originally would have been set around the four sides of the Compluvium, above the Impluvium in the atrium. 

The rainwater would have been channelled to pour through the open mouth of the Lion into the Impluvium below.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007.  Room 1. Atrium and Impluvium.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007.  Room 1, Atrium.  South end of impluvium. 

Stone basin on a stand with a bronze water spout next to a rectangular marble base and a travertine puteal.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  May 2005. 

Room 1. Atrium.  East side showing windows of rooms on upper floor.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  May 2005. 

Room 1. Atrium.  Looking across to Tablinum.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009.  Doorway to Room 2 on west side of entrance.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007.  Room 2 doorway.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009. 

Room 2,  West wall, with blocked doorway through to house at V.2.h

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007. 

Room 2 on west side of atrium has a small blocked door to V.2.h.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009.  Room 2, West wall. 

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009.  Room 2,  South wall.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007.  Room 2.

 

V.2.i Pompeii.  December 2007.  Room 2.  Small niche on south wall.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009. 

Room 2,  East wall, with doorway to entrance corridor, and Room 3a directly opposite.

 

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2009. 

Room 2,  North east corner, with door to entrance corridor in east wall.

 

 

 

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