VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south
to entrance doorway on Via dell’Abbondanza. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south across shop to dwelling at rear.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance, looking south-east.
According to Della Corte, found on the pilaster to the left of the entrance, was the graffito
Tonsores (rogant)
[CIL IV 743]
See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.237)
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby, the graffito read
A(ulum) Trebium
aed(ilem)
tonsores [CIL IV 743]
(See www.manfredclauss.de)
According to Fiorelli found nearby, were:
(A) TREBIVM
AED TONSORES
POPIDIVM SECUND
AED
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.128).
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. August 2021. Looking south from entrance
doorway towards peristyle. Photo courtesy of Robert Hanson.
VIII.4.12 from VIII.4.13 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking south across remains of atrium and tablinum.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south through tablinum.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December
2018. Looking towards rooms on the east side of atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Rooms on the east side of atrium.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. September 2005. West side of atrium.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking towards room on west side of tablinum,
which may have been a kitchen according to Boyce. Photo courtesy of Aude
Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south-west towards room (kitchen?) on
west side, before the peristyle, on left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking west
into kitchen, room on west of side of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
According to Boyce, the room on the right of the tablinum may have been the kitchen.
He says in the west wall, pictured above, there was an arched niche.
Its walls were coated with white stucco which was painted with red and yellow flowers.
On the right side of the niche, the lararium painting was painted in two zones.
The lower zone showed a serpent, still visible in 1937, with a red crest and beard, rearing its head above the masonry altar.
The altar was standing against the wall below the niche.
In the upper zone, nothing was visible, but earlier reports described the figure of a Lar painted on the left side of the niche.
On the right side of the niche, there were two painted hams and an eel.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.76).
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.128).
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking towards north-west corner of kitchen. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Altar and niche against west wall of kitchen. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Niche and surrounding remaining plaster of the
lararium painting. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of
niche. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail of remaining plaster in niche, red and
yellow flowers, perhaps. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Remaining painted plaster on right side of
niche, from the lararium painting ?
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail of above remaining painted area. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking
south-west towards room on west side, before the peristyle. Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south through tablinum, towards peristyle area.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south
across garden peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking
south-east across garden peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking
south-east across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail of items near south side of peristyle. Is
this the masonry pool, as described by Jashemski. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Wall on south side of peristyle. Photo courtesy
of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of
large stone near south wall of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking
north-west across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south
along west wall of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail from
west wall of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii, 1968.
Looking west across garden/portico. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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According to Wilhelmina, this was a shop-house, with the garden (excavated in 1861) at the rear at the back of two shops (VIII.4.12 and 13).
The garden had a portico on four sides. Seven huge dolia were buried in the soil along the edge of the east half of the garden.
In the south-west corner there was a masonry pool with a little column in the middle, which jetted water. A marble monopodium was also found.
On the right side of the peristyle there was a bronze basin (0.40m in diam.) with a hole in the middle through which a small pipe entered.
On the pipe was a little lion which jetted water from its mouth and throat. The feet of the basin were welded in the form of a ring.
The fragment of a head of a statuette was also found on the right side of the peristyle.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.213).
VIII.4.12 Pompeii, 1968.
Looking towards west portico/garden behind a marble one-legged table-support. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north-east
across garden peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Marble item
from south side of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. Looking east across garden/portico.
This drawing by Pierre Gusman is described as a “Storeroom”.
He says – “Some wine-merchants and other dealers simply planted their dolia in the soil of their gardens”.
See Gusman, P. (1900). Pompei, the city, its life and art. London, William Heinemann. (p.287).
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking north
to doorways to rooms on east side of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VIII.4.12 Pompeii. December 2018.
Detail of remaining stucco and vaulted ceiling
cornice from an unknown room, perhaps on the east side. ?
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.