V.4.6 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1842, 1886 and 1902.

Linked to V.4.7 and V.4.8 Caupona of Spatalus.

V.4.6 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking towards entrance doorway, centre left, on north side of Via di Nola.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.4.6 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

V.4.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance on Via di Nola. Looking north.

V.4.6 and V.4.7 Pompeii. Plan from Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1902, p.376.

V.4.6 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north from entrance doorway.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.4.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north from entrance.

V.4.6 Pompeii. March 2018. Looking north from entrance towards rear room.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

V.4.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north from entrance towards rear room.

V.4.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north-east from entrance towards V.4.7.

V.4.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west to shop-room at V.4.6, from V.4.7.

V.4.6/7 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking from rear of shop towards entrance doorway on Via di Nola. 

V.4.6/7 Pompeii. Painting of Mercury. The background was red.

Mercury was nude, except for his green cloak, wearing a winged helmet and winged shoes.

In his right hand he held his purse, and his staff was in his left hand.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p. 343, fig 4.

V.4.6/7 Pompeii but shown as V.3.6 on photo. Pre-1937-1939. Painting of Venus Pompeiana with cupid.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 260.

V.4.6/7 Pompeii. Painting of Venus Pompeiana with cupid. The background was red.

The goddess (0,66 high) with her hair gathered in a gold bonnet and diadem, adorned with pearl earrings, gold necklace, bracelets and rings on her fingers and wrapped in a light robe, has her right arm on her breast, and with the left she holds the rudder, leaning with her elbow on the shoulder of the cupid (0,39 high) who is next to her, decorated with a crown and wearing a green chlamys (fig. 5).

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p. 344, fig 5.

V.4.6/7 Pompeii. Painting of Maenad with Bacchus. The background was red.

On the right was Bacchus, but his head was missing from the painting.

He poured the liquid from a jug into the mouth of his panther.

On the left we see a standing Maenad, crowned with ivy and dressed in green robe.

In her right hand she held a tambourine and a wand in her left.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p. 345, fig 6.

According to Kuivalainen, two persons are standing against a red background.

On the left, a female figure in a green robe holds a tympanum in her right hand and a thyrsus in the left; she has a wreath of ivy on her head.

In the middle sits a panther drinking from a cantharus held by the youth on the right.

The youth stands with his weight on his right foot and leans with his left on a pillar; he carries a yellow cloak on his arm and holds a thyrsus.

He comments: A Bacchus of the young and almost naked type, depicted with a maenad and a panther. Simple two-figure compositions with Dionysus and one of his companions were favoured already e.g. by the Python Painter in Paestan vases ca. 360–320 BC.

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, D10, p. 131-2.

The paintings of Mercury, Venus Pompeiana and Bacchus were found in rooms shown in V.4.7.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p. 343-5.