VIII.3.4 Pompeii. Casa di Ercole ed Auge or House of the Popidii.

Linked to VIII.3.6. Excavated 1816 and 1838. (Strada del Abbondanza 4).

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VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance.

According to Della Corte, these walls had many recommendations mentioning the Popidi found on them at the front of the entrance. One of them being –

Helvium  Sabinum

aed(ilem

Popidi(us)  rog(at)      [CIL IV 705]

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.227)

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south from the entrance corridor.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking south from fauces. 

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Floor decoration on east side of fauces.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, staircase to upper floor, and small room.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorways to rooms 1, 2 and 3 on east side of atrium.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, east wall of cubiculum, with painted plaster.

This room contained the wall painting of Dionysus & Silene,

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. 395b.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore, p.123.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, ala, looking east.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway in south wall of ala, to room 4, triclinium

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. 

East wall of room 4, triclinium, and doorway to corridor leading to VIII.3.6

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, tablinum, looking south to garden area.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. 

Room 6, ala, in foreground, and doorway to small room or cupboard, at rear.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 7, oecus.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west wall of oecus. 

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 8, cubiculum.

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, west wall of cubiculum. 

 

VIII.3.4 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 9, tetrastyle atrium. Looking south-east across site of impluvium.

 

 

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