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VII .10.5 Pompeii.
House. Linked to VII .10.8 and VII .10.13.
Excavated 1863? (Vico d’Eumachia 11).
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The long fauces stretched eastward, to the detriment of
the atrium.
The moving and renewing of the impluvium also required the
creation of a new emptying system, which meant breaking and relaying the
previous atrium and fauces flooring. This resulted in the patches, seen above,
in the fauces flooring.
Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, 22: l”Insula VII, 10
di Pompei , by Angelo Amoroso. (p.80)
According to Amoroso, the original impluvium was removed
and a new smaller impluvium was inserted, during the last few years of the life
of the insula.
Some of the blocks of tufa of Nocera which had formed the
collection tank of the impluvium, were transferred to the inside of a trench in
the flooring and in filling a ditch. The new impluvium was reformed with reused
material.
Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, 22: l”Insula VII, 10
di Pompei , by Angelo Amoroso. (p.80)
The zoccolo or dado of the atrium walls would have been
painted black/violet, preserved towards the north-east side and the east wall.
Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, 22: l”Insula VII, 10
di Pompei , by Angelo Amoroso. (p.42)
According to Bragantini et al, on the west side of the
south wall, the zoccolo of the wall was seen to be violet.
In the middle zone was a white central panel (perhaps with
a painting?), the side panels were red.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.182)
According to Amoroso, in the surface of the floor of this
room and preserved in situ is the only shaped tufa of Nocera block, belonging to
the previous impluvium. (p.80)
Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, 22: l”Insula VII, 10
di Pompei , by Angelo Amoroso. (p.80)
According to Bragantini et al, the flooring in this room
was cocciopesto with scattered chippings of black and white tesserae.
The plastered walls had a high protruding zoccolo of
cocciopesto, the middle zone was still rough plaster.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.182)
Looking north along passageway leading to kitchen, latrine
and storeroom and rear doorway at
On the left, doorway looking through into doorway of
cubiculum, on north side of peristyle.
On the right side of the pilaster, one of the two
entrances from the atrium to the peristyle.
According to Jashemski, at the rear of the atrium was the
peristyle garden, excavated in 1863.
It was enclosed on the north, west and south by a portico
supported by seven columns.
The columns were red at the bottom, white and fluted
above.
There was a pillar flanked by two half-columns at the
north-west corner.
There was a gutter around the edges of the garden.
See Jashemski, W. F.,
1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II:
Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.191)
According to Bragantini et al, on the east and west walls
of this cubiculum, the painted black zoccolo and white middle zone could be
seen.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1986. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 3. Rome: ICCD. (p.183)
