I.2.3 Pompeii. Casa con colonna etrusca. Linked to I.2.2 and I.2.4.

Excavated 1872. Bombed 1943.

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I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking east along corridor leading to garden and rear rooms. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east along corridor leading to garden and rear rooms. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west along corridor to atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west from the garden area along corridor to atrium.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking south along corridor leading to kitchen. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii.

1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking south along corridor towards the kitchen area.

Warscher described this photo as –

I.2.3 “a destra del tablino (e) sta la fauce (f), che mena al cucina ed al viridario, ove a destra è una scaletta per montare al piano superiore.

L’arco della scaletta è stato allegerito per mezzo delle anfore, delle quali tre si trovano in posto”.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.10), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.  

I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking north along corridor leading from kitchen. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north along corridor leading from kitchen.

On the right (east) can be seen the stairs to the upper floor. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking north across remains of kitchen, towards north wall and stairs. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north across remains of kitchen, towards north wall and stairs. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north towards kitchen area with corridor, on left. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.3 Pompeii. September 2005.

South side of rear of house, kitchen area, (grassed area in centre of photo), from Vicolo del Conciapelle.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of garden area, with remains of stairs to upper floor. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. South side of garden area. Looking west at remains of stairs with cupboard underneath.

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1966. Looking west to stairs to upper floor in garden area at rear of house. 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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I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north from Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north from storeroom on south side, across garden area.

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1966. Looking north-west across garden area. 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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I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006.

North side of garden area. Small room in north-east corner of house, together with small vestibule area with Etruscan column.

I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking north towards small room in north-east corner of house. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north from garden area, towards small vestibule and cubiculum? Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking north.

Warscher described this photo as –

I.2.3 “Il triclinio (h): una specie di piccolo vestibulo a sinistra (nord) è ornato con due mezzocolonne di tufo scannelate. 

Non è rimasto niente nè della pittura del Genio familiare che libava, nè del dipinto del gallo sull’ara.

In connessione con la colonna intercalata nel muro nord della prima camera a sinistra dell’atrio (photo no.8) facciamo attenzione che nel muro occidentale del triclinio sono intercalati due tamburi d’una colonna.  Forse il proprietario ricostruendo la casa dopo il terremoto dell’anno 63 ha acquistato una colonna, due tamburi e anche due mezzocolonne scannellate”.

Quoting Sogliano, no.58 on page 18, she described:

Cella penaria: “Serpente che si accosta all’ara imbandita di offerte; al di sotto piante palustri e al di sopra tre piccoli festoni di foglie, sormontati ciascuno da un uccelletto”.

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p.18, no.58)

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.11), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.  

(translation: I. 2.3 "triclinium (h): a small vestibule on the left (north side) was adorned with two fluted tufa half-columns.

There remained nothing of the painting of the family Genius making the offering, nor of the painting of the cock painted on the altar.

In connection with the column inserted in the northern wall of the room to the left of the entrance hall (photo no. 8) we draw attention that in the west wall of the triclinium were interspersed two column drums. 

Maybe the owner by rebuilding the house after the earthquake of the year 63 had bought a column, two drums and also two fluted half-columns”.

Quoting Sogliano, no. 58 on page 18, she described:

Storeroom: "Serpent approaching the altar table laid with offerings; marsh plants below and three small garlands festoons of foliage above, each surmounted by a bird”.)

I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Etruscan Column.

According to Jashemski, the small vestibule on the north side of the garden (excavated 1873) was decorated with remnants of tufa columns brought from another site.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.21)

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of vestibule and column. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.3 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards the east wall of vestibule and column.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 535

1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of vestibule, with remains of another tufa column. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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