VI.12.5 Pompeii. Entrance to Casa del Fauno or House of the Faun.

Linked to VI.12.1, VI.12.2, VI.12.3, VI.12.7 and VI.12.8.

Excavated 1829 to 1833, 1900, 1930 and 1960.

Bombed in 1943. Reconstructed in 1945. (Strada della Fortuna 52).

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Room 13 on east side of south-east corner of atrium, connected into room 12

VI.12.5 Pompeii. September 2021.

Atrium 7, looking south-east across impluvium in atrium towards doorway to room 13, centre left. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. August 2021.

Atrium 7, looking towards south-east corner, with doorway to room 13, centre left, and to room 9, centre right.

Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. Atrium 7, looking south to rooms in south-east corner of atrium 7.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. July 2017.

Near doorway to room 13 in south-east corner of secondary atrium, remains of World War II bomb from 1943.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. July 2017. South-east corner of secondary atrium, detail of remains of World War II bomb from 1943.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 30th September 2015.

Looking east across south end of atrium, with doorway into room 13 in centre.

The doorways into rooms 9, entrance corridor 6, and 8, are on right.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, looking east towards threshold/sill from atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 15th July 2017. Room 13, detail of threshold/sill, looking east from atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017.

Looking west across atrium 7 from doorway of room 13, towards doorway into room 10.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, looking west across threshold/sill through doorway into secondary atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 15th July 2017. Room 13, detail of threshold/sill, looking west into secondary atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, looking north-east through doorway from secondary atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, looking through doorway towards north wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, looking towards upper east wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, south-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017.

Room 13, looking through doorway from atrium towards south-east corner, with doorway to room 12.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017.

Room 13, looking through doorway from room 12, towards north-west corner and doorway to atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, looking east across flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, flooring in north-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 13, detail of flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

Room 12, linked with room 13

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking south through doorway from room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking south across threshold/sill from room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking south across threshold/sill, from room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking north across threshold/sill.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking north across threshold/sill into room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking north across threshold/sill into room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking towards south-east corner and south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking towards south-east corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, looking towards south wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 12, detail of flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

Room 9 on south side of south-east corner of atrium.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. September 2021.

Atrium 7, looking towards south-east corner, with doorway to room 9, centre right, and entrance corridor/fauces 6, on right.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking south through doorway of cubiculum.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking south-east through doorway from atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking towards south wall of cubiculum.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, south-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, detail from lower south-west corner.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, Looking south across threshold/sill from secondary atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking south across threshold/sill from secondary atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking south into cubiculum with detail of threshold/sill, from atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking north across threshold/sill from cubiculum towards atrium 7.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, detail of threshold/sill, looking north from cubiculum.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, west end of threshold/sill.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. 14th July 2017. Room 9, looking north-west across Secondary Atrium 7, from doorway.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

Miscellaneous

VI.12.5 Pompeii. Altar with Oscan inscription found in the atrium on 1st January 1831.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 2550.

According to Fiorelli, this altar carried the name of “Flora” to whom it was dedicated, and a fragment of an inscription with the name of the Maio(?) Purio.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.72, including a drawing of the inscription).

See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 247

VI.12.5 Pompeii. April 2019. Iron stove with bronze lid, on left.

Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5)

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 264932.

See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 249

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. Iron stove with bronze lid.

Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5)

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 264932.

See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 249

VI.12.5 Pompeii. Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5).

Iron stove with bronze lid. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 264932.

See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 249.

VI.12.5 Pompeii. Found in VI.12.2/5 on 21st March 1831 in a room around the atrium of the four columns (VI.12.5).

Bronze situla or bucket. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 68859.

See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 249.

Paintings of Sydney Vacher

According to the writing on these paintings, they were from No.51 Strada della Fortuna, described as “Decoration of top of a room”, and on the left side is written “about 10ft to floor”.

According to CTP, No.51 Strada della Fortuna was VI.12.6.

According to PPM, “This room, (Bottega/shop 4) had a pergula/mezzanine floor lit by a window in the east wall. The numerous holes for the support beams in the east wall belonged to this phase of construction. Some small remains of 1st Style wall decoration, coloured green, were conserved in the south-east corner.”

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. 5. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p. 91, no.8, described as “Bottega 4”.)

However, these paintings do not seem to agree with the description of 1st Style, so they are most likely from somewhere else.

Perhaps, they were seen and painted in the rooms in the south-east corner of the atrium of VI.12.5, at the rear of VI.12.6 and so have also been included here in VI.12.5.

VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c. March 1879. Painting by Sydney Vacher, detail from upper wall, described as from Strada della Fortuna 51.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4383-1910.

VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c. March 1879.

Painting by Sydney Vacher described as from Strada della Fortuna 51, detail from upper wall.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4380-1910.

VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c. March 1879.

Painting by Sydney Vacher described as from Strada della Fortuna 51, “full size” detail from upper wall.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4381-1910.

VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c. March 1879.

Painting by Sydney Vacher described as from Strada della Fortuna 51, “full size” detail from upper wall.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4382-1910.

VI.12.6 or VI.12.5 Pompeii. c. March 1879.

Painting by Sydney Vacher described as detail from Strada della Fortuna 51.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4384-1910.

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