I.10.7 Pompeii. Casa del Fabbro or House of the Smith or House of the Craftsman

or Domus and officina of M. Volusius Iuvencus and the Equitia. 

Excavated 1914, 1927 and 1933.

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I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance on Vicolo del Menandro.

 

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I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

According to Varone, written outside was the graffito CIL IV 8364.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. Drawing of graffito.

According to Varone, written outside the entrance was the graffito CIL IV 8364.

He translated it as –

“Secundus greets his Prima wherever she is: I beg you, lady, love me”.

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.39)

 

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

 

Secundus

Prim(a)e suae ubi

que i<p=S>se salute(m) Rogo domina

ut me ames           [CIL IV 8364]

 

I.10.7 Pompeii.  December 2007. 

Painted plaster to the left of the entrance.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii.  December 2007. 

Entrance showing room to the west of the entrance.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of door stop in floor of fauces.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance fauces looking south towards atrium.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Rooms on west side of fauces and atrium.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, looking west.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009.  Room 1, west wall, with latrine in north-west corner.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, looking towards south-west corner. 

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2 (taken from south side of room 1).

Painted plaster with winged beast on west wall.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, south wall.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, latrine.

According to Hobson, Ling wrote in 1997, that this latrine was screened on the south by a low masonry wall.

On the east side, apparently, screened by a timber or timber-framed partition, the evidence for which was an iron-lined posthole in the floor.

In fact, it is likely that this was a swivel post for a wooden door and the jamb against the wall.

Due to the lack of preservation of wood in Pompeii, no doors have been found.

See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.82)

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south-east corner near doorway.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. 

Looking south across atrium from entrance corridor.

 

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway in entrance corridor to room 2, cubiculum.

 

 

 

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