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II.3.9 Pompeii. Pottery and garden. Linked to II.3.7 and II.3.8.

II.3.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance.

Found on the east side of the entrance doorway was a painting of a God, possibly Vulcanus or Hephaistos, and a potter at his wheel.

Found on the wall on the east side of the painting, still partially conserved was CIL IV 7573 (see II.3.8).

II.3.9 December 2005. Entrance.

On the right of the doorway would have been the painting seen below.

Underneath the painting was the graffito CIL IV 7574, no longer visible.

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

Si qui

access<i=E>t

nisi ius

(h)ab(eat?) [CIL IV 7574]

According to Varone and Stefani, it read:

Si qui(s)

accesse(ri)t

nisi ius

sac<raverit…> [CIL IV 7574]

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.207)

According to Della Corte, it read:

Si quis accesset (sic) nisi ius [ha]b[eat?]… [CIL IV 7574]

See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.387)

Della Corte also wrote that this graffito was written in red, to the right of II.3.7, and that there were two paintings on the exterior wall.

Apart from the one below, there was another, badly mutilated, of Minerva and Mercury.

II.3.8 Pompeii. Painting of a God, possibly Vulcanus or Hephaistos, and potter at his wheel.

Found on the outside of the south-west corner of the shop. SAP Inventory number 21631.

II.3.8 Pompeii. Detail of painting of a potter at his wheel. SAP Inventory number 21631.

II.3.8 Pompeii. Detail of painting of a God, possibly Vulcanus or Hephaistos.

SAP Inventory number 21631.

Via di Castricio, May 2010. Graffito on wall between II.3.8 and II.3.9, found to the east of the painting above.

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

Messius [CIL IV 7573]

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.207-8)

II.3.8 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffito CIL IV 7573 on wall between II.3.8 and II.3.9.

II.3.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from entrance across garden, with the Sarno Canal.

II.3.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north to triclinium, linked to II.3.7.

II.3.9 Pompeii. December 2004. Course of Sarno Canal, in foreground, the triclinium at rear.

II.3.9 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of II.3.8, on east side of the garden.

II.3.9 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of II.3.8, on east side of garden.

II.3.9 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking east to wall of II.3.8.

II.3.9 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east from entrance to doorway of II.3.8.

II.3.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west from entrance.

II.3.9 Pompeii. March 2009. Sarno canal on west side of garden area.