VII.3.23 Pompeii. Shop with dwelling house.

Linked to VII.3.22. Excavated 1843. (Strada Stabiana 16).

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Via Stabiana.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. March 2009. Wall south of VII.3.22, with terracotta and tufa plaque.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. March 2009. Terracotta and tufa plaque.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. March 2009. Terracotta and tufa plaque.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. December 2006. South side of entrance.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. December 2006. Travertine and masonry sales counter.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. December 2006.

West wall of shop, with rear room and entrance to small atrium.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall of rear room of shop.

                            

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010. South wall of rear room of shop, with window onto Vicolo del Panettiere.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. December 2006. North wall of shop and doorway to small atrium.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010. 

Looking west from the small atrium towards the garden, on the left, and rear corridor to kitchen, on the right.

According to Liselotte Eschebach the small atrium had a sacellum and garden.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.269)

According to Boyce, on the wall of one of the rear rooms of VII.3.22/23, was a painting of two serpents confronted at an altar.

In the background were plants and among them, at the time, was visible the tail of a third serpent, but the rest of the body had disappeared. 

Below the painting was the graffito: LARES

                                                                    PROPI

                                                                    tiOS         [CIL IV 844]

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.65)

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010. Rear of house in the north-west corner.

On the left was the site of the kitchen, on the right was a small open yard, or light-well.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010. Rear of the house in the south-west corner.

On the left was the triclinium, with a window to the garden area, on the right.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010.

South-west corner of the triclinium, with the window in the south wall overlooking the Vicolo del Panettiere.

 

VII.3.23 Pompeii. May 2010. Garden area.

 

VII.2 Pompeii. September 2004. Vicolo del Panettiere looking west .Side wall of VII.3.23.

 

VII.2 Pompeii. December 2005. Vicolo del Panettiere looking west. Side wall of VII.3.23.