VI.13.6 Pompeii. Casa e Officina Textoria di M. Terentius Eudoxus

or Casa del forno or Casa del forno di ferro.

Linked to VI.13.8 and VI.13.9. Excavated 1833, 1837, 1846 and 1873. (Strada della Fortuna 46).

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance doorway.

According to Pagano and Prisciandaro, found in April 1841 were recommendations on the exterior walls of VI.13.6-9. They read –

 

Fuscum aed(ilem)

Iphigenia facit    [CIL IV 457]

 

Vicini

cum Capitone

rog(ant)    [CIL IV 458]

 

R]ustium aed(ilem)

rogamus dignus est    [CIL IV 459]

 

Paquium et Caprasium

probissimos d(uum)v(iros) i(ure) d(icundo) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 460]

 

M(arcum) Samellium Modestum aed(ilem)

d(ignum) r(ei) p(ublicae) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)    [CIL IV 465]

 

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli.  Naples : Nicola Longobardi.

(p.157)  PAH II, 395; III, 169.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north from entrance vestibule across the atrium.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. September 2004. Looking north across atrium, from entrance.

According to Garcia y Garcia, in 1943 a bomb destroyed the rear entrance at VI.13.9.

The three nearby rooms on the south-east side of the peristyle were destroyed as well as a good part of the east wall.

The plaster on the west wall of the atrium also suffered damage.

The east wall of the tablinum was totally raised to the ground, as well as the rooms to the east of this.

The major part of the damage will never be restored.

The house appears today very ruined and abandoned.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.86-87)

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2005. Rooms on west side of atrium.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking north across impluvium to tablinum.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2005. Impluvium in atrium, looking north.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2005.

Rooms on north side of atrium, looking north through tablinum to peristyle area.

The peristyle of the house had been transformed into a weaver’s workshop.

Many graffiti were found there, see VI.13.8.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii. December 2005. Rooms on east side of the atrium.

 

VI.13.6 Pompeii.

Painting of two gods with graffiti inscriptions, found on front exterior wall between entrances 6 and 7. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  MANN inventory number 9282.

Our thanks to Raffaele Prisciandaro for his help in identifying this object.

See also Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern.  (F41, T:17,2)

According to Varone and Stefani, CIL IV 347 and 348 were found here -

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.329)

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

 

Lollium

[3]i Fuscum aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)      [CIL IV 347]

 

TROOODV[3]RVM

Polybium IIvir(um)     [CIL IV 348]