IX.3.5 Pompeii. House of M. Lucretius or Casa delle Suonatrici. Part 1.

Linked to IX.3.24. Excavated 1846 and 1851. (Strada Stabiana 33)

 

We started by photographing IX.3.5 and continued through to IX.3.24.  We have combined the pictures for both houses on the pages for IX.3.5.

 

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IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. September 2004. Room 1, looking east along the entrance fauces.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 1, north wall of fauces.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of fauces.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of fauces, remains of wall painting of Ceres.

Found in July 1846, PAH II, 453.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, small room on north side of entrance fauces.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, west end of room.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 2, stairs to upper floor, and room looking east towards atrium.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 1, south wall of entrance fauces.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south side of entrance fauces.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 1, south side of entrance fauces, remains of wall painting of female musicians. 

This painting led to the house first being called the Casa delle Suonatrici, when it was found in July 1846.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. Old watercolour copy of the wall painting of the female musicians.

 

IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 3, atrium, looking east through tablinum to raised garden area.

 

 

 

 

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