VIII.3.24 Pompeii. House of Plotilla or Casa di Apollo e Coronide.

Excavated 1815, 1839.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii, on left, VIII.3.23, VIII.3.22, and VIII.3.21, on right. December 2018. 

Looking east to entrance doorways from Via delle Scuole. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance doorway.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance fauces, north wall. 

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2004.

Entrance fauces or corridor, looking east across south side of peristyle towards rooms in south-east corner. 

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. c.1930. Triclinium 6, room in the south-east corner of the house, decorated with a black and white mosaic.

Set in the flooring was a motif of a shell set between two craters (vases).

DAIR 41.779. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E.  1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, (taf. 50.2)

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1843, of part of the north wall of triclinium, a room in the south-east corner.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 828.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1840, of painting of Apollo and Daphne (Dafne) from centre of north wall of triclinium.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, (213)

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 830.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1840, of painting seen “In the triclinium”.

The painting showed two cupids carrying an arrow, one of the attributes of Apollo, who is also seen in the central painting of the north wall.

Although a precise location of the painting is not known, it could be from the left (west side) of the north wall where there is a gap at the centre of the panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 831.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1840, of painting seen “In the triclinium”.

The painting shows a cupid and a psyche carrying the large lyre of Apollo, this is still just about visible at the east (right) end of the north wall.

See also Abbate’s drawing of the north wall, where the east end panel with cupid and psyche is drawn.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 832.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1840, of painting seen “In the triclinium”.

This showed a cupid and a psyche carrying a large urn and was already damaged when first found.

This was from the south wall of the triclinium, on the left side of the doorway.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 833.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. South side of peristyle taken from south-east corner of VIII.3.27.

The wall retains its 1st style decoration and with a yellow zoccolo.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. 1968. Looking south across peristyle. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across peristyle towards tablinum.

The floor of the tablinum was of simple cocciopesto.

The wall decoration was of fourth style with a high black zoccolo with panels showing geometric patterns or plants and compartments with a central corolla.

The middle zone was red, fallen for the most part on the north wall, but repeating the same colouring on the other walls.

The middle zone of the east wall had a central compartment between two red panels.

At the top was a square window opening onto the garden of the neighbouring house at VIII.3.14.

On the right of the photo would be the doorway to the oecus/cubiculum.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1840, of paintings described as being from a cubiculum, but in fact, from the oecus of a house with entrance from the Via della Regina, at the rear of the Forum, Casa d’Apolline e Coronide.

The painting of Venus was seen on the east wall (Helbig 348) of the oecus, but now has completely disappeared.

The painting of Narcissus is still just about preserved and recognisable on the north wall of the oecus (Helbig 1341).

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS829.

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VIII.3.24 Pompeii. April 2017. Looking north-east across peristyle. Photo courtesy of Dr Paul J. Turner.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north-east across peristyle.

In the photo above, the doorway that can be seen right of centre leads to a kitchen and latrine.

Found on the plaster facing the hearth, written in faint letters was the graffito –

AELIVS . MAGNVS . PLOTILLAE SVAE

                                      ROGO DOMINA SALVTEM        [CIL IV 1991]

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.125)

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

Aelius Magnus Plotillae suae

rogo domina salutem       [CIL IV 1991]

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north across peristyle towards doorway to large room, leading to other rooms.

VIII.3.24 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north across peristyle, from the south side. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.