VI.7.6 Pompeii. Casa di Ercole. Linked to VI.7.4 and VI.7.5.

Excavated 1835. Restored 1976.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, east wall of tablinum, and north wall of atrium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of atrium, with doorway to room 10, triclinium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, west wall of triclinium, with remains of a window onto garden area.

 

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, west wall and south-west corner of triclinium, with remains of a window onto garden area.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, south wall and south-east corner of triclinium, with doorway into atrium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, west end of south wall of triclinium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east end of south wall of triclinium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east wall of triclinium with remains of a wall painting of Hercules.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1148)

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.148) Hercules and Omphale.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east wall of triclinium.

Remains of wall painting of Hercules and Iole.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Room 10, east wall of triclinium.

Drawing by Roux of wall painting of Hercules and Iole.

See Roux, A. et Barre, L., 1839. Herculaneum et Pompéi: recueil general des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques Etc. (Part 2, Plate 64)

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, east wall of triclinium, with remains of painted wall plaster.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north wall of triclinium.

According to Schefold in the centre of the north wall was a painting of Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus, now vanished.

He gives the Helbig reference as 104.

See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wande Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. (p.99)

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, east end of north wall of triclinium, with remains of painted plaster.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north end of west wall of triclinium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, south wall of triclinium, with leaning west side. Looking south.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, ala on east side of atrium.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, south wall of ala.

 

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, painted decoration on south wall of ala.

 

 

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