VI.3.20 Pompeii. Bar of Fortunata. Excavated 1806.

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. Looking north towards bar, in junction of Via Consolare and Vicolo di Modesto.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north towards entrance doorway.

There used to be an electoral recommendation, found on the left of the doorway where remains of plaster can still be seen.

According to Della Corte, it read Fortunata cupit    [CIL IV 111]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.42)

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

Marcellum

/

Fortunata cupit.    [CIL IV 111]

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north across counter.

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking east across counter.

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. December 2005. Counter with hearth at end.

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. December 2005. Rear rooms.

 

VI.3.20 Pompeii. September 2005. Fountain outside VI.3.20.

According to Mau, found on a wall at the south end of insula 3, was a public advertisement of a building to rent.

It has now faded and vanished but may have been on a wall between VI.3.20 and VI.3.21.

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

 

Insula Arriana

Polliana Gn(aei!) Al<le=IF>i Nigidi Mai

locantur ex <K=I>(alendis) Iuli(i)s primis tanernae

cum pergulis suis et c{o}enacula

equestria et domus conductor(is)

convenito Primum Gn(aei) Al<le=IF>i

Nigidi Mai ser(vum)      [CIL IV 138]

 

Mau’s translation read as –

“To rent from the first day of next July, shops with the floors over them, fine upper chambers, and a house in the Arrius Pollio block owned by Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius.  Prospective lessees may apply to Primus, slave of Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius”.

Mau also wrote that the insula named after Arrius Pollio was thought by Fiorelli to be the so-called House of Pansa, across the street from the block on which the advertisement was found.

The identification may be correct – but a notice painted in so prominent a place might refer to a block in any part of the city.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey, F. W., Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 489).

 

According to Della Corte, CIL IV 138, was found above one of the external pilasters in the south-west corner of insula VI.6, and not here.

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.113)

 

Fiorelli would appear to agree with Della Corte, as he said the advertisement was found on the walls of VI.6.18/19.

This would be on the opposite side of the Vicolo di Modesto from here.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.56)