I.2.8 Pompeii. Thermopolium of C. Hostilius Conops and Hirtia Psacas.
Linked to I.2.7. Excavated 1873.
VIII.7 Theatres, Pompeii, on left. March 2009. Looking north along Via Stabiana from near 1.2.8.
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north-east towards entrance on Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east to entrance doorway from Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii.
May 2005. Entrance on Via Stabiana.
I.2.8 Pompeii. 1961. Looking east from Via Stabiana. 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.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north-east across serving counters. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.8 Pompeii. March 2009. L-shaped serving counter and entrance.
According to Fiorelli, the L-shaped counter would have had two urns and a hearth, and not one urn, as now seen.
See Pappalardo,
U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per
Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 35)
See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.4).
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking east across bar towards rear room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across bar towards rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
North wall with niche behind additional counter with three urns, and L-shaped serving counter at the front. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.8 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall with niche behind additional counter with three urns, and L-shaped serving counter in the front.
I.2.8 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall with niche.
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north across counters towards niche in north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north across bar-counters towards north wall with niche. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024.
Looking east along north wall into rear room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024.
Looking towards doorway to rear room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from bar-room into rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east to rear room.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. Rear east wall in rear room, with down-pipe from upper floor. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Down pipe in south-east corner of rear room.
I.2.8 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall of rear room.
I.2.8 Pompeii. July 2008.
Down-pipe in east wall near south-east corner of rear room. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024.
South-east corner of bar-room, with doorway into I.2.7 in south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
I.2.8 Pompeii. October 2024.
Looking east in south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of bar-room with doorway into I.2.7. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall with doorway linking to I.2.7.
1.2.8 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking west across bar-room towards entrance doorway on Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.2.8 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher.
Looking north-west across bar-counters towards north wall with niche.
Warscher
described –
I.2.8 “una
taberna col podio continente due urne altre il focolaio, ed altro podio da un
lato, in qui stanno infisse tre urne di maggiore dimensione:
un muro
divideva questo primo compreso da un secundo più interno, ove sembra fossero
collocati due letti, e serviva anche di sostegno ad una scala, che portava alle
stanze sovrapposte”.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.20), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
(translation: I. 2.8 "a workshop with podium containing two urns and also the hearth, and another podium by the side, in which there were three more larger urns: a wall divided this first area from a second inner area, where it seemed two beds were placed, and also served to support a ladder, leading to the rooms above".)
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)."