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VI.16.28 Pompeii. House of Coponii or Casa della Caccia di Tori.

Excavated 1904.

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VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, West wall, small painted figures.

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, small painted figures.

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, West wall, painted plaster.

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room I, west wall, painted plaster.

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west across room C, atrium, towards doorway to room D, cubiculum. According to NdS, the doorway to the room had a threshold of lava and with signs of wood towards the atrium. The room was rather large and its upper walls were coated with simple white rough plaster, and below by a high black dado. The dado was divided into large panels by means of slender red bands. See Notizie degli Scavi, 1908, (p.271

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009.  

Looking west across room C, atrium, towards doorway to room D, cubiculum.

According to NdS, the doorway to the room had a threshold of lava and with signs of wood towards the atrium.

The room was rather large and its upper walls were coated with simple white rough plaster, and below by a high black dado.

The dado was divided into large panels by means of slender red bands.

See Notizie degli Scavi, 1908, (p.271)

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, west wall. According to NdS, in the height of the west wall was a small window that overlooked the Vicolo dei Vettii.

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, west wall.

According to NdS, in the height of the west wall was a small window that overlooked the Vicolo dei Vettii.

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, south wall and south-west corner with recess. According to NdS, at the extremity of the south wall was the recess for the bed.

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, south wall and south-west corner with recess.

According to NdS, at the extremity of the south wall was the recess for the bed.

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, north wall and north-west corner.

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room D, north wall and north-west corner.

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, cistern (b) on west side of atrium.

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, cistern (b) on west side of atrium.

 

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, atrium. Wall between doorway to room D and room A on west side of atrium, with downpipe to cistern (b). According to Hobson, occasionally narrow bore pipes might bring the rainwater directly off the roof directly into the cistern. See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.117, and fig 119). According to Hobson, this pipe had an external diameter of 10cm, whereas the other two found from upper floors had a diameter of 18cm. See Hobson, B. 2009. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford, Hadrian Books, (p.290 and p.295)

VI.16.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room C, atrium. 

Wall between doorway to room D and room A on west side of atrium, with downpipe to cistern (b).

According to Hobson, occasionally narrow bore pipes might bring the rainwater directly off the roof directly into the cistern.

See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.117, and fig 119)

According to Hobson, this pipe had an external diameter of 10cm, whereas the other two found from upper floors had a diameter of 18cm.

See Hobson, B. 2009. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford, Hadrian Books, (p.290 and p.295)

 

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii, looking north. May 2005.

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii, looking north. May 2005.

 

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vico dei Vettii, December 2005.

Fountain outside VI.16.28 on Vicolo dei Vettii, December 2005.

 

Vicolo dei Vettii looking south from near fountain at VI.16.28. December 2007.

Vicolo dei Vettii looking south from near fountain at VI.16.28. December 2007.

 

 

 

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