I.3.5 Pompeii. Workshop. Linked to I.3.6. Excavated 1870.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards entrance doorway from across the Via Stabiana.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli, she wrote –

I.3.5/6 – “Sono due tabernae in relazione tra loro, e perciò appartenute ad un stesso padrone.

Entrambe hanno un primo compreso, separate da altro più interno, per un muro in cui è un’ampia finestra, onde ciascuno di essi prendeva luce: entrambe erano coverto da volte, di cui rimane solo la parte più interna.

La prima ha nel mezzo un banco o podio di fabbrica, l’altra tiene accanto una cella, che sembra un dormitorio.”

(translation: "These were two linked workshops joined with each other, and therefore belonged to the same owner. 

Both had a front shop-room, separated by other more internal rooms, and by a wall in which was a wide window, so each room one took light from it:

both were covered by a vault, but only the innermost part remained.  

In the middle of the first (I.3.5) was a masonry table or podium, the other had a room, which seemed to be a dormitory."

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3:  Rome, DAIR. 

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate, looking north.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east towards entrance doorway from Via Stabiana.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from entrance. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Fiorelli, in the middle of the entrance room was a podium or bench.

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

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across the north side of the entrance room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

At the rear of the entrance room was a doorway to the rear vaulted room.

According to Fiorelli, on the right of the doorway above the remains of the wall, a large window allowing light to the rear room was found.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking across the podium towards the south wall and south-east corner of the entrance room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east along south side of the remains of the podium in the entrance room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west across the remains of the podium in the entrance room, towards the entrance doorway onto Via Stabiana.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking towards north wall of the entrance room, with doorway to adjoining workshop at I.3.6.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking east into rear vaulted room.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking east into rear vaulted room.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.12), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east through doorway in east wall of entrance room, into vaulted room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. North wall of rear vaulted room with doorway into another rear room.

This room now appears to be part of I.3.6, as the north and west wall have disappeared.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards east wall and vault in rear room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of niche in rear east wall on south side. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Boyce, this broad arched niche in the east wall, originally had its walls coated with white stucco.

The stucco was painted with red, blue and green flowers and plants.

Eventually, a layer of red stucco was spread over the top, and since peeling off, had revealed the earlier layer underneath.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.24)

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

She wrote -

“In the rear wall of the vaulted room, one found a vaulted lararium”.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.13), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of niche showing remains of painted flowers and plants.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

I.3.5 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from rear vaulted room towards Via Stabiana.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included a description of the insula.

This description is included at the end in all parts of I.3 on the website.

 

“L’isola 3 della Regio I apparteneva ai quartieri piuttosto poveri, ad’esenzione della casa no. 3 tutto le case sono di dimensioni non grandi.

La casa no. 3 presenta un interesse dal punto di vista della costruzione: il peristilio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello dell’atrio:

questa particolarità si riscontra solamente in questa casa.

Noi abbiamo un esempio inverso nella casa dell’Ancora nera ove l’atrio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello del peristilio.

Si sente bene nell’isola in questione la vicinanza dell’anfiteatro da una parte e delle caserme dei gladiatori dall’altra.

Non c’è dubbio che le case nos 23, 25 siano state abitato da gladiatori.

(translation: “Insula 3 of Region I belonged to a rather poor neighborhood, with the exception of house No. 3 all the houses were not large in size.

The house at no. 3 had a special interest from the point of view of construction: the peristyle sits at a level higher than that of the atrium: this particularity was found only in this house. We have a contrary example in the House of the Black Anchor where the atrium was located at a higher level than that of the peristyle.

The nearness of the amphitheatre on one side and the gladiators' barracks on the other suited well the inhabitants of the insula in question.

There was no doubt that the houses numbered 23, 25 had been inhabited by gladiators.”).