I.2.3 Pompeii. Casa con colonna etrusca. Linked to I.2.2 and I.2.4.
Excavated 1872. Bombed 1943.
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking north through doorway into cubiculum, on north side of vestibule. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south from cubiculum towards vestibule, garden and stairs. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. South-east corner of cubiculum? with detail column drum. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of garden area. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across garden area. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006.
Looking east across garden area, towards the remains of the narrow slightly raised beds against the north and east walls.
These beds, according to Fiorelli, were for the cultivation of flowers.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.34)
I.2.3 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher. Warscher described this photo as –
I.2.3 “una
vasca di lava trovata nel triclinio (h). Forse essa serviva per la coltivazione
dei fiori”.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.12), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
(translation: 1.2.3 “a lava basin found in triclinium (h). Perhaps it was used for the cultivation of flowers”.)
I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024.
Looking north towards east wall of garden area, centre right.
On the right is the east wall of two rooms, one a storeroom and one a sacrarium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking across the garden area, towards the remains of the two rooms in the south-east corner.
According to Fiorelli, on the opposite side of the garden from the vestibule and bedroom, there was a storeroom and a room uniquely used for the sacred domestic Gods (Sacrarium).
A brick altar was in the middle, on which was painted a cockerel.
The image of the Genius was painted on the wall pouring a libation onto the altar.
Nearby was a large serpent, plants, and it was surmounted by garlands with small birds.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.34).
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south into two small adjoining rooms, and remains of perimeter wall onto Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
According to Boyce, on the south side of the Viridarium were two small adjoining rooms.
One was a storeroom and the other, according to Fiorelli, was devoted only to the service of the domestic cult.
In the centre of the room entered from the first door stood a masonry altar, on which was painted a cockerel.
On the south wall a panel of white stucco was marked off with red stripes and within it was the Lararium painting.
The Genius poured a libation upon an altar, towards which a large serpent moved, moving through plants.
Across the top were three small festoons, on each of which perched a little bird.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.21 No.4)
1.2.3 Pompeii. September 2010. East wall of sacrarium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.3 Pompeii. October 2024. Two rooms in the south-east corner at the rear of the house, on right.
Taken from side road, Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Two rooms in the south-east corner at the rear of the house, on right.
Taken from side road, Vicolo del Conciapelle.
I.2.3 Pompeii, in centre and on right, with rear of I.2.1, on left. October 2024. Looking north-west. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway (in centre), on Via Stabiana.
In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included Viola’s description of the insula, from
Gli scavi di
Pompei dal 1873 al 1878, p.10 (Pompei e la regione sotterrata dal Vesuvio
nell’anno 1879, Seconda parte.
This is included at the end in all parts of I.2 on the website.
“Nel dicembre
del 1873 incomminciò lo scavo di questa isola – quale dovette essere abitata da
moltissime persone. Infatti non si vede grande lusso di abitazioni, nè grandi
locali, ove i ricchi pompeiani passavano la vita nell’ozio e nel piacere; si
può invece osservare grand’economia di spazio, case piccole miste a botteghe e
ad officine, onde non è difficile argomentare che quivi abitarono persone del
ceto medio, le quali benchè agiate non godevano certamente della più splendide
posizione.
E’ questa
un’isola dove avennero frequentissime trasformazioni, per cui riesce
difficillissimo intravvedere qual’era la sua forma primiera; non mancano però
degli avanzi di costruzioni primitive, insieme ad altri di epoca posteriore,
come si osserva in molti luoghi di Pompei.
La sua area è
di mq.2948, ed è limitata da occidente dal cardo, a settentrione dalla via
secunda, ad oriente dal vico parallelo al cardo e a mezzogiorno dalla via
tertia che la separa dalle isole 1 e 5; il margine che la fiancheggia da tre
lati escluso l’orientale e sulla via tertia di fronte al vano No.28 si vede un
piccolo ponte, formato da massi posti a contrasto, il quale serve per unire i
due margine (vedi la fotografia no.42c)”.
(Note: photo (no.42c) can be seen at I.5.1, I.2.28 and in
the “streets” section under Vicolo del Conciapelle).
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. Rome: DAIR.
(translation: "In December of 1873 the excavation of this insula began – which would have been inhabited by many people. In fact you don't see great luxury homes, nor large rooms, where rich Pompeian passed life in idleness and pleasure; if you instead look at the great economy of space, small homes and shops mixed with workshops, it's not difficult to argue that here lived people in the middle class, which however well-to-do they certainly did not enjoy the most splendid position.
This was an insula where there were frequent transformations, for which it is difficult to glimpse what was the original form; it does not lack however, the remains of primitive constructions, alongside others of a later date, as can be seen in many places in Pompeii.
Its area was 2948 sq. m., and was bounded on the west by the “cardo”, on the north by via secunda, and east by a parallel vicolo to the “cardo” and in the south by the via tertia, that separated it from Insula’s 1 and 5: the border that flanked it by three sides excluding the east and on via tertia opposite No. 28, you will see a small bridge, formed by a boulder placed to serve to unite the two edges, (see photo No. 42 c)."