VII.3.27 Pompeii. Steps to upper floor.

Linked to VII.3.26 and VII.3.28. Excavated 1868.

VII.3.27 Pompeii, on left. October 2017. Looking north-west towards entrance, on north side of Vicolo del Panettiere.

VII.3.26 was the doorway, now blocked, with a barred window, centre left.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps to upper floor.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. May 2006. Steps.

According to Della Corte, the following graffito inscription was found to the left of the stairs:

Euplia  hic

cum  hominibus  bellis

M   M         [CIL IV 2310 b]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.149)

According to Varone, this translated as “Euplia was here with thousands of good-looking men”.

In the third line the M M, (two thousand), presumably referred to any number of thousands of good-looking men!

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.71)

On the pilaster to the right of the stairs, was written:

Capellam

II vir(um) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)

Phoebu[s f]acit    [CIL IV 2949]

See, Della Corte, above.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. May 2006. Steps.

VII.3.27 Pompeii. December 2005. Steps.

VII.3.28 and VII.3.27 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking east.