V.3.7 Pompeii. Casa della Regina d’Olanda.

Excavated 1901-2 and 1908.

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V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area. Aedicula lararium.

Niche with upper and lower zones.

The marks can be seen of the partition that separated the upper and lower zones.

Also visible are the marks of a second partition that apparently formed the floor of the niche.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (112, p. 38, Pl 36, 2).

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area. Lararium upper zone.

This has a painting of a serpent advancing left to a round altar which is painted in a variegated marble style.

In the background are plants and a double garland is across the top.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (112, p. 38, Pl 36, 2).

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area. Lararium lower zone.

The red plaster was painted with an aedicula façade within which stood the painted figure of Ceres.

She was wearing a crown of ears of grain and held a torch in her left hand and a sheaf of grain in her right.

Boyce contrasts the delicacy of this painting with the coarser and more familiar lararium art above.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (112, p. 38, Pl 36, 2).

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium on west wall of garden area.

Marks of lower partition that formed the floor of the lararium.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area.

Lararium painting, looking south.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area.

North side of lararium with decorative stucco.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. May 2005. West wall of garden area. Large aedicula lararium and small niche on the right.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of garden area.

North side of aedicula lararium and second niche nearby.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area.

Second small niche on west wall, north of aedicula lararium.

The niche had a projecting slab for the ceiling and another for the floor.

A second floor within the niche covered the slab giving the appearance of a raised step within the niche.

The floor was painted in imitation of red and yellow marble.

The wall below the niche was covered with a painted garden decoration.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (112, p. 38, Pl 36, 2).

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area, detail of south side of painted niche.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009.

Garden area, detail of remains of north side of painted niche and rear wall..

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area, detail of rear, west wall of painted niche.

 

V.3.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area, looking north along west side.

 

 

 

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