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I.3.20 Pompeii.
September 2010. Looking south across Vicolo del Menandro towards entrance
doorway.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.20/21 Pompeii. 1935
photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.
Looking south towards
façade and window of
I.2.20 (on right), and doorway at I.2.21 (on left).
See Warscher, T, 1935:
Codex Topographicus
Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.36), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.20 Pompeii.
May 2005. Entrance doorway.
According to
Warscher, “Il protiro conduce in un atrio privo dell’impluvio.
A destra una
ampia cella con tre poggiuoli di fabbrica, per sostegno di un pancone di tavola,
e di fronte il tablino.
Nel viridario
sono infissi due dolia.”
See Warscher, T, 1935:
Codex Topographicus
Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: Rome, DAIR.
(Translation: The entrance corridor into an atrium
without an impluvium.
On the right a large room with three masonry
blocks, for the support of a board for the table, and the tablinum opposite.
In the garden area were two dolia fixtures. "

I.3.20 Pompeii.
September 2010. Number ID
Plate on east side of entrance doorway.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.20 Pompeii.
September 2010.
Looking south
to detail of entrance threshold block (showing antipagenum slots?).
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.20 Pompeii.
September 2010. Looking south along fauces towards atrium, from entrance
doorway.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south along entrance corridor.

I.3.20 Pompeii.
September 2010. Looking south along fauces, showing detail of east wall.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south along entrance corridor towards atrium and rear of peristyle.
According to Boyce, on the right side of
the peristyle stood a small altar, coated with stucco.
On the yellow background, there were painted festoons and
masks.
The excavation report called it a lararium.
He gives the reference Bull.Inst., 1869, 242.
This is no longer in situ.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 24)

I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005.
Looking east along north side of peristyle.

I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005.
Looking south-east towards two dolia buried in the peristyle.
Originally there were four dolia.
See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA.
Austin: University of Texas. (p.6)

I.3.20 Pompeii. 1935
photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.
Two of the dolia
embedded in the garden area.
See Warscher, T, 1935:
Codex Topographicus
Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.37), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005.
Looking east from rooms on west side, across area of tablinum towards rooms on east side.
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.”).