IX.9.10 Pompeii. Rear entrance to garden of IX.9.6. Vineyard?

Excavated 1887.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Vicolo looking north to Via di Nola.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Vicolo looking north, with Vesuvius in the background.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance doorway.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway to garden area, looking west.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south-east.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Sacellum, or former kitchen. Looking east.

Room with three niches and an altar with a masonry bench along the north wall and the north-east corner..

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p.91, no. 459, PL 41, 1)

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall with niche, and in front of it a masonry altar.

The niche was surrounded by a rectangular panel of white stucco marked of by red and black stripes. 

Above the niche was a painted double garland suspended from painted nails.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium niche on east wall.

The shelf at the back of the niche contained a statuette of a female figure holding a patera umbilicata in her right hand.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (459, Pl 41,1)

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Masonry altar.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall, with two arched niches.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. 

North wall, 2 arched niches, and below them, a masonry bench built along the north wall and part of the east wall.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Arched niche, at east end of north wall.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Arched niche, at west end of north wall.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Masonry bench built along the north wall and part of the east wall.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north towards entrances of IX.9.6 and 7

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north.

 

IX.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west to entrance.