I.9.1 Pompeii. Casa del Bell’ Impluvio or House of the Beautiful Impluvium

or Casa delle 6 divinità.

Linked to I.9.2. Excavated 1912 and 1952.

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I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, looking south through tablinum.

According to PPM –

the floor of cocciopesto was decorated with white tesserae in a “carpet” pattern of a network of hexagons with white tesserae in the centres. 

In the middle of the floor was an emblema of tiles and flakes of polychrome marble.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, west wall of tablinum. 

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 8, east wall of tablinum showing the remains of a red panel within which was a small architectural area.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, east wall of tablinum. 

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, east wall of tablinum. 

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, east wall of tablinum. Detail of imagines clipeatae (faces on shields).

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici, Vol. 1. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 930.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, east wall of tablinum. 

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 8, tablinum. East wall and doorway to room 9, with architectural painting on east wall.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, triclinium, east wall with wall painting with buildings.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, east wall of triclinium.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, garden area, looking east from tablinum.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, garden area, looking south from tablinum.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, garden area, looking west from tablinum.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north-west corner of garden area, with stairs to lower level.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, stairs to lower level in garden area.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north-west corner of garden area, looking north to room 7 (above) and stairs to lower level (below).

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, garden area, looking north from the end of the stairs at lower level.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking east across portico, outside tablinum.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, portico on west side of peristyle.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, doorway into room at south end of west side of garden area.

The floor is no longer there, and the drop is down into the workshop complex at a lower level.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south end of peristyle, with drop down to workshop complex below.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking north to tablinum from garden area.

I.9.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south end of peristyle.

I.9.1 Pompeii. December 2007.  Set of 25 hinges made of bone.

Found in 1951 in the House of the Beautiful Impluvium.  SAP inventory number 8075.

I.9.1 Pompeii. Terra sigillata cup (on left).  SAP 8286. 
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum.  September 2009.

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