IX.1.20 Pompeii. House of M. Epidius Rufus or House of Diadumeni.

Linked to IX.1.30. Excavated 1858 and 1866. Bombed in 1943, restored by 1946.

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IX.1.20 Pompeii. Entrance and podium on Via dell’Abbondanza, looking west.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. September 2004. Entrance and podium.

For graffiti found on the wall between IX.1.19 and IX.1.20, see IX.1.19

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. House capitals being stored in Temple of Mercury.

Old undated photograph courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.

The lower capital is from the entrance of IX.1.20.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Capital with motifs of Dionysus, from the entrance. Now in storage in VII.7.29.

See Gallo, A., 2006, in Polis. Studi interdisciplinari sul mondo antico, Volume 2.  Roma: L’Erma. (p. 181, fig.16)

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Capital with motifs of Dionysus, from the entrance. Now in storage in VII.7.29.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Podium looking east along Via dell’ Abbondanza.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. W.332. Looking east along podium towards entrance doorway on Via dell’Abbondanza.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

See http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/230932

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Podium looking west along Via dell’ Abbondanza.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, small lobby on east side of the fauces.

A small door allowed entry when the house door was closed and which made an alcove when it was opened.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Marble sill at entrance.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, atrium. Tufa columns, impluvium, rim and basin floor.

Atrium with 16 Doric columns around impluvium.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. c.1943-6. Room 2, atrium. Bomb damage.

According to Garcia y Garcia, this house was one of the most savagely damaged during one of the allied air raids in September 1943.

The great Corinthian atrium, hit in its centre in the middle of the impluvium, was completely annihilated, with the destruction of the impluvium and the cutting down of the sixteen tufa Doric columns.

The bombing also caused the demolition of the façade wall towards the Via dell’Abbondanza, including the fauces and the neighbouring rooms.

With the immediate restoration and by saving every little snippet, the columns were reconstructed, but it was only possible to restore a fraction of the facade.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.149-50)

Photo courtesy of British School at Rome Digital Collections.

See http://www.bsrdigitalcollections.it/details.aspx?ID=5609&ST=SS

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. Atrium from entrance. 

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. W.333. Looking north across atrium.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. With kind permission of DAI Rome, whose copyright it remains.

See http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/231564

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Atrium and rooms 5 and 6 on east side.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2004. Room 2, atrium and rooms on west side.

 

IX.1.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 2, atrium.

Looking south-east across impluvium towards doorway to room 3, centre right.

 

 

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