VI.16.5 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1903.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking west.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway, looking west.

The lava threshold can now be seen in the shop entrance doorway.

The small wall between the shop room and rear room has been knocked down.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west across shop towards rear room.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west across shop towards rear room.

According to Sogliano in NdS, when first excavated the walls were unadorned.

Leaning against the right of the north wall were the remains of a large masonry feature with two steps before it.

To the right of this same and really in the north-east corner, there seemed to be seen the remains of a fusorium.

Towards the other side of the same wall, there was a circular lava cistern mouth, (centre right of photo).

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1906, (p.350, and plan on p.346)

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of masonry base and staircase against north wall.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Cistern-head in north-west corner of shop.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. West wall of shop and doorway to rear room.

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Plastered recesses in south-west corner of rear room.

According to Sogliano, the rear room partly preserved the painted decoration on the south and east walls.

This decoration consisted of a high red dado, divided into squares by means of narrow white and blue bands.

In the upper part on a white background, were painted, at a certain height, a red horizontal band.

In the south-east corner was a circular window that opened into the neighbouring fullonica (VI.16.3/4)

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1906, (p.350, and plan on p.346).

VI.16.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Round window in south-east corner of rear room.