I.3.3 Pompeii. Domus of Epidius Fortunatus.

Linked to I.3.4 and I.3.31. Excavated 1860.

Subterranean level.

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Upper    South side      West side

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west from top of steps towards the atrium.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.31 Pompeii. March 2009. Steps to upper floor. Looking east.

On the left can be seen the doorway with steps leading down to the subterranean area.

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east from top of stair passage, looking down into collapsed area of subterranean level.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north from top of steps on landing, leading down to square yard room in subterranean level.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking south towards steps leading up to sloping landing, half way up the steps to upper floor.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Subterranean Level, looking towards south-west corner, with steps to the landing.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking south towards the area on the east side of the steps, and detail of basin.

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Mau described the basin, as “not very deep and lined with tufa”.

According to Mau, “it was not easy to define these rooms with certainty. It was not a bath, but it would be possible and I am disposed to think it, that here one did the laundry”.

See Mau, A: ,BdI, 1874, (p.180)

According to Fiorelli, “there was the staircase that led to the peristyle, but half way up one meets a short descent, that led to a complex of small rooms destined perhaps to be the bath, in the first of which we have a tank that takes water from the peristyle thanks to a tube (pipe) of lead”.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.38)

 

I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Subterranean Level, looking south towards vaulted alcove.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking towards north wall of room or yard, with doorway and window into room on north side.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Subterranean Level, doorway into room on north side.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Subterranean Level, looking towards north wall.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking south towards doorway and across yard room to steps up to sloping landing.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010. Subterranean Level, detail of window in south wall.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking east from yard room towards east wall with two doorways.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking east into room from doorway on north side.

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I.3.3 Pompeii. September 2010.

Subterranean Level, looking east into room through doorway on south side.

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Upper    South side      West side