VII.2.45 Pompeii. Casa dell’ Orso Ferito or House of the Bear.

Linked to VII.2.44. Excavated 1865 and 1868.

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VII.2.45 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance.

 

VII.2.45 Entrance, vestibule and detail of doorway. Old undated photograph.

Courtesy of Society of Antiquaries. Fox Collection.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. May 2006. Vestibule.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. December 2007. Mosaic floor of vestibule.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. December 2007. Mosaic of bear with inscription HAVE.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. 1875 lithograph. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. September 2005. Vestibule. East wall.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. September 2005. Vestibule. West wall.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. July 2011. Looking north across atrium.

Photo courtesy of Deborah Sims.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. July 2011. Mosaic floor and impluvium in atrium.

Photo courtesy of Deborah Sims.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. September 2005.

Atrium with mosaic floor and impluvium.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. September 2005. West side of atrium.

 

VI.2.45 Pompeii. W.11.  Patterned mosaic floor on west side of atrium.

According to Bragantini, this area is described as a wide threshold with “pelta”, or crescent-shaped shields, in front of the west wall.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.87, atrio ‘b’)

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

See http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/230912

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. September 2005. Doorway to first room on west side of atrium.

This is a narrow room with a further room on its south side with two high windows out on to the street.

According to Fiorelli, in the atrium of VII.2.45 on the left towards the doorway leading into VII.2.44, was the graffito, CIL IV 1679:

According to Della Corte, the graffito was found on the pilaster to the left of the room joining with the atrium of Colepio: 

Calos (H)edone.  Valeat qui legerit.  (H)edone dicit: Assibus (singulis) hic bibitur; dupundium si dederis, meliora bibes; qua(rtum) (assem) si dederis, vina Falerna bibes.    [CIL IV 1679]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p. 180)

 

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

 

Invicte castre(n)se

habeas propiteos

deos tu(c)<a=O>stresit

e et qui leges

calos (H)edone

valeat qui legerit

(H)edone dicit

assibus hic

bibitur dipundium

si dederis meliora

bibes quatt<u=O>s

si dederis vina(m)

Falerna(m) bib(es)     [CIL IV 1679]

 

According to the translation found in Pompeii, the history, life and art of the buried city, edited by Panetta, M. R, (page 231), this graffiti was found at the entrance to Hedone’s tavern:

Hedone says “You can get a drink here for only one coin.  You can drink better wine for two coins.  You can drink Falernian for four coins”. [CIL IV 1679]

 

According to Cooley, the graffito was found in the bar at VII.2.44, and the translation:

Hedone says, “You can drink here for one as, if you give two, you will drink better; if you give four, you will drink Falernian.”  [CIL IV 1679]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii : A Sourcebook. London : Routledge. (p.162, H12).

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. May 2010. The two windows are in VII.2.45.

They are in the room on the south side of the first room on the west side of the atrium..

To the right is VII.2.44 with a rear doorway into the atrium of VII.2.45.

 

VII.2.45 Pompeii. September 2005. Doorway to second room on west side of atrium.

 

 

 

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