VIII.7.10 Pompeii. Shop and rooms. Linked to VIII.7.9.

Excavated 1795, 1874, 1906 and 2005 to 2010.

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The Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (PARP:PS) has been excavating VIII.7.1 to 15 since 2005.

For more detail see their annual research reports at http://www.fastionline.org/micro_view.php?itemkey=fst_cd&fst_cd=AIAC_356.

 

VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Entrance on Via Stabiana. Looking west.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of door threshold showing door socket.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance, looking west.

 

VIII.7.10 Pompeii, on right with VIII.7.9 on left. September 2005.

 

VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across shop towards rear.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north across shop towards doorway, on right, linked to VIII.7.11

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Rear room of shop, looking towards rear and north-west corner.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Corridor looking west towards rear room, possibly a dormitory?

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east from corridor and rear dormitory room, towards shop entrance on Via Stabiana, and Vicolo del Conciapelle, opposite.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Rear room possibly a dormitory, looking towards north-west corner.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south towards doorway to triclinium.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across triclinium.

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Corridor looking west towards rear (blocked by low wall)

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010.

Corridor looking east towards road (low wall block in foreground).

This would seem to have been taken from the kitchen, but presumably was not blocked in antiquity ?

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VIII.7.10 Pompeii. September 2010. Site of kitchen, described by Eschebach as having hearth, well and lararium.

See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p. 389)

According to Boyce, in the wall of the kitchen there was a niche and beside it was a lararium painting.

It represented a sacrificial scene with the Genius and the tibicen, one on each side of an altar.

On either side of them was a Lar.

In the lower zone was a single serpent beside and altar.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.78, no.377)

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.12, no.24, “badly preserved”).

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