IV.1.e Pompeii. Shop? Excavated 1842.

All the doorways on the northern side of Via Nola, forming Regio IV, have been filled in as a wall to keep the earth bank back from the road.

It is very difficult to find the exact position of these doorways and link them to any site plan.

Liselotte Eschebach has numbered these houses from IV.1.1 to IV.1.7. Our numbering is IV.1.a to IV.1.g, as in CTP IIIA.

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

IV.1.d and IV.1.e Pompeii behind custodians shed. May 2006.
According to Liselotte Eschebach, there were Lararium paintings here.
She suggested this may possibly be F26 identified by Fröhlich as from Regio IV.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.116, IV.1.5).

IV.1.d and IV.1.e Pompeii behind custodians shed. May 2006.

According to Liselotte Eschebach, there were Lararium paintings here.

She suggested this may possibly be F26 identified by Fröhlich as from Regio IV.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.116, IV.1.5).

IV.1.d and IV.1.e Pompeii behind custodians shed. 1841 drawing by G. Abbate.

Drawing of painting of Mercury with petasos (hat) and winged sandals, and holding a caduceus.

A vine runs from bottom to top of the panel.

Fröhlich identified Mercury on the left of the entrance and Bacchus on the right of the entrance.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 100.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p.316, F26).

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IV.1.d and IV.1.e Pompeii behind custodians shed. 1841 drawing by G. Abbate.

Drawing of a naked Bacchus crowned with vine leaves, and with thyrsus, grapes and sitting panther.

A vine runs from bottom to top of the panel.

Fröhlich identified Bacchus on the right of the entrance and Mercury on the left of the entrance.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 101.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p.316, F26).

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Kuivalainen comments –

“Bacchus is offering a bunch of grapes to the panther. The composition and its details, such as the large wreath, the thirsty/covetous panther with the naked Bacchus, and the considerable size of the vine, all emphasize the significance of the harvest.”

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.109-10, C5).

IV.1.d and IV.1.e Pompeii (behind shed) and IV.1.f (right) May 2006