I.2.30 Pompeii. Rear entrance. Linked to I.2.1, I.2.31 and I.2.32.

Excavated 1872. Bombed 1943.

I.2.32 Pompeii, on left. October 2024.

Looking north-east on Vicolo del Conciapelle, towards entrances I.2.31 and I.2.30 at rear of standing wall, centre left, linked to I.2.32. 

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.30 Pompeii. October 2024.

Looking north on Vicolo del Conciapelle towards entrance doorway into room on east side of I.2.31, with I.2.32 and I.2.1, on left.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.30 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

I.2.30 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north to entrance doorway, with remains of perimeter wall, from across Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Fiorelli, near this doorway was another electoral recommendation relating to Numerio Popidio Rufo:            

                                  N.P.R

                             AED.O.V.F

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 34)

The wall, doorway and electoral recommendation were all destroyed in the 1943 bombing.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this read as

N(umerium) P() R()

aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)       [CIL IV 3381]

I.2.30 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking north to entrance doorway, with window on either side of it.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no. 63), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

According to Warscher “Un esempio del muro della strada dove una finestra è disposta sopra due del primo piano.

Non c’è dubbio che la casa fosse a due piano”.

(translation: An example of a wall of a street where a window is placed over two on the first (ground) floor. There is no doubt that the house had two floors”.

I.2.30 Pompeii. 1935 photo taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking towards wall with windows positioned between I.2.30, on the left, and I.2.29, on the right.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.2. (no.64), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.2.30 Pompeii. September 2005.  Remains of street wall and rear room.

According to Fiorelli, there was a painted electoral graffiti relating to the election of Numerio Popidio Rufo on this wall (now destroyed).     

I.2.30 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north towards remains of walls and sill of doorway.

Near the doorway was a latrine, totally destroyed in 1943.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.4)

I.2.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north from entrance doorway, with remains of wall in right, corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Eschebach, the latrine may have been under stairs to upper floor?

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau.(p.14)

According to Fiorelli, this vast room contained the well, a tub for washing the kitchen utensils, and a toilet near to the exit.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 34)

I.2.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Remains of east wall, at front of photo. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2.30 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west on Vicolo del Conciapelle towards Via Stabiana.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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: this photo can also 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)."