VII.11.14 Pompeii. Hospitium Christianorum. Garden entrance.

Excavated 1862. Linked to VII.11.11. (Vico del Lupanare 28)

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We entered at VII.11.14 and continued through to photograph VII.11.11 also.

The photographs for both are included here on these pages and a combined plan covers both VII.11.11 and VII.11.14.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden area “B”, south-west corner, and entrance to garden “C”

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, north-east corner.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, north wall with remains of painted decoration.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, north wall, with remains of two of the three garden rooms.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, third small garden room in north-west corner.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, west wall.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, south-west corner.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, south wall.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, south-east corner.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, west wall.

According to Boyce, above a rectangular podium a projecting arch was built against the back wall, thus forming a niche.

The front part of the upper surface of the podium served as an altar for sacrifices, on the front side of the podium was a step.

On the rear wall of the niche are painted Jupiter and the Genius, with a blazing cylindrical altar between them.

To the right and left on the wall outside the niche were the poorly preserved figures of the Lares.

The side walls and the vaulted ceiling of the niche were decorated with leafy boughs.

The exterior of the structure was coated with stucco painted in several different colours.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.69, no.310 with Pl.14,1)

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, lararium and altar on west wall.

On either side were the painted Lares, smaller than the figures in the niche. Now vanished.

According to Boyce, Helbig placed the Lares on the projecting walls of the arch.

Fiorelli put them on the wall of the room outside the niche.

Their figures have entirely disappeared but the side walls of the niche, decorated with foliage, show that they could not have been painted there.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (67)

See Fiorelli, Scavi, p.26, p.108, No.41

See Fiorelli, Descr., 280.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.110, where the Lares are described as “Nymphs”.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009.

Garden “C”, Lararium painting of Genius and Jupiter.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L.89, T :42.4)

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, painting of Genius on lararium.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, detail of Genius on lararium.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, detail of Genius on lararium.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, painting of Jupiter on lararium.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, detail of Jupiter on lararium.

 

VII.11.14 Pompeii. March 2009. Garden “C”, detail of altar on lararium.

Jupiter and the Genius both hold a patera in their hand.

 

 

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