IX.6.g Pompeii. House of C. Cornelius Clu……

Excavated 1878. Bombed in 1943. East side not fully excavated.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking north.

According to Della Corte, this was an old and spacious dwelling, renovated in the last years of Pompeii.

Its wall decorations from earlier times had been saved, but it was conspicuous for the severity and regularity of its architecture of the Samnite period.

A signet/seal was found in the house giving part of the name of the proprietor – C. Cor(nelius) Clu…… (S.30, CIL X 8058,23)

See Della Corte, M., 1965.  Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.194)

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north along entrance corridor to site of atrium, tablinum and peristyle.

On the east (right side), the house was never excavated.

On the east (right) of the entrance fauces, can be seen the doorway into a small room containing steps to upper floor.

According to Hobson, this small room possibly could also have been a latrine.

See Hobson, B. 2009. Pompeii, Latrines and Down Pipes. Oxford, Hadrian Books, (p.515 plan)

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking south in small room on east of entrance corridor, latrine?

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking south across top of small room, from room in south-east corner of atrium.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north across site of atrium, tablinum and peristyle.

According to Garcia y Garcia, this house was bombed during the same raid on 16th September 1943 that also destroyed IX.6.4.

The bomb destroyed the columns of the peristyle, together with the four rooms on the west of it.

This included the perimeter wall that divided it from IX.6.4.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.153)

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. Doorway to cubiculum on west side of atrium.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005.

Doorway to second cubiculum on west side of atrium.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking south-east across atrium, from doorway of oecus on west side of tablinum.

Looking towards doorway to room in south-east corner of atrium.

According to Schefold, a painted medallion of the head of Aphrodite and Ares? was found in this oecus.

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (p.137, Taf 180,1)

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005.

Looking north at remains of north-west corner of tablinum.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. Remains of yellow painted plaster from north-west corner of tablinum.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south across triclinium, in south-west corner of peristyle.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005.

West wall of triclinium, with small window to light-yard of IX.6.d.

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. North-west corner of peristyle, looking across remains of IX.6.4.

According to Boyce, in a small room in the north-west corner of the peristyle, in the middle of the west wall was an arched niche.

This was adorned with an aedicula façade of half-columns on each side supporting a cornice.

The cornice ran around the curve of the arch instead of a pediment.

The lower half of each column was red, the upper half white

This inside walls of the niche were decorated with many small irregular blotches of red on a white background.

Bull. Inst., 1881, 23.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.87, no.435 and Pl.3, 6)

 

According to Jashemski, the peristyle garden at the rear of the tablinum was enclosed by a portico on the south, east, north and most of the west sides.

The portico was supported by 12 columns, and 2 engaged columns, painted red below and white above. 

In the north wall of the peristyle near the north-east corner was a large rectangular niche.

The garden is completely destroyed today.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.239)

According to Boyce, the walls of the niche were coated with white stucco and in its floor were two square depressions, as if for statue bases.

He thought the niche was unusually large for an ordinary lararium.

Bull. Inst., 1881, 22

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p.87, no.434)

 

IX.6.g Pompeii. May 2005. West side of IX.6.g.

Site of two rooms and staircase (in the lower part of photo), looking west towards remains of IX.6.4.

South wall of garden area of IX.6.4, approximately where the figure is standing.

To the rear of the remaining wall on the left, and left of centre, would have been the site of north-east corner of IX.6.3