VI.16.11 Pompeii. Shop with dwelling. Excavated 1844, 1904.

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VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2005. Looking towards entrance doorway.

On the left can be seen the remains of the threshold and base of stairs leading to upper floor.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance and north wall of shop-room.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance and north wall.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of shop.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. North wall of shop.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010.

Looking west across shop to corridor to rear, on left, and rear room in north-west corner, on right.

Originally, on the west wall between the corridor and the rear room was a lararium.

According to Boyce, there was a ruined niche in the west wall, coated with white stucco bordered with red stripes.

Red and green garlands were painted on the back wall of it.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, p. 58.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 58, no.222).

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii.  December 2007. 

Looking west to room in north-west corner of shop and corridor to rear in south-west corner.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii.  December 2004.

Looking west to room in north-west corner of shop and corridor to rear in south-west corner.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall of shop.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall and corridor leading to rear.

According to Liselotte Eschebach, on the left, this wall used to have a base for a staircase to the upper floor against it. 

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.227)

According to NdS, beside the south wall at the entrance doorway to the shop was an independent staircase accessed from a step and with a lava threshold from the street. This led to the rooms above.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, p. 58.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Corridor to rear.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007. Latrine and kitchen area of the corridor leading to rear.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway to rear room in north-west corner of shop. Looking west.

According to NdS, the doorway would have had doorjambs and a threshold of wood.

The floor was made of opus signinum but was poorly preserved.

The walls were divided into large red panels, divided by yellow pilasters or fillets, with feeding birds in the middle, a flying swan, and a rectangular painting with faded representation.

The dado was red but also badly preserved. The frieze had a white background.

The remains of the white frieze were still visible upon excavation, in the height of the west wall, in which there was a window.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1908, p. 59.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. West wall with window overlooking yard.

 

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room in north-west corner of shop, west wall with window and remains of red dado.

 

VI.16.11 Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of rear room.

 

 

 

 

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