IV.3.c Pompeii. House with wide entrance. House of Hermes?

Linked to IV.3.b. Excavated 1813.

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.

Our numbering is IV.3.a to IV.3.i, based on the 1969 plan by Hans Eschebach.

Liselotte Eschebach has numbered these houses from IV.3.1 to IV.3.9.

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

IV.3.c Pompeii. March 2009. Wide entrance on Via di Nola, on right.

IV.3.c Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance.

According to Della Corte, found here was a graffito – 

Hermes  rog(at)    [CIL IV 441]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.141)

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

Samellium  aed(ilem)  Herm()  rog(at)      [CIL IV 441]

IV.3.b Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance on left, and IV.3.c (right).

Pompeii. May 2006. Area of IV.3.c, and IV.3.d