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Pompeii. Villa dei Misteri or Villa of Mysteries. Part 5.
Kitchen courtyard (61) with lararium, altar, hearth and oven.
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Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010.
Corridor leading to kitchen area, on north side of room 42. Looking east.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii. May 2006.
Corridor leading to room 62, from kitchen area, looking west.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010. Room 61, kitchen courtyard.
North side with lararium and altar.
Looking east.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Room 61, lararium.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Room 61, niche in north wall, with remains of stucco
pediment above.
According to Boyce,
the small altar embedded in the floor of the niche, was decorated with an image
of a gorgon and two heads of bulls.
Two sculptured heads,
a terracotta one of a goddess and another of tufa representing Hercules, were
found inside the niche.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.97)
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010. Room 61, north wall of kitchen courtyard near
lararium.
According to Boyce in
1937, the last layer of plaster had already fallen revealing an earlier layer
beneath it, decorated with a figure painting in red and yellow.
Maiuri concluded that
this was a fragment of the pre-Roman art of the house shrine.
When excavated, the
paintings were very poorly preserved, and had almost disappeared by 1937.
The following
description was written by De Petra in Not.Scav, 1910, 141:
“Below and to the
right of the niche is represented a procession made up of two horsemen, a crowd
of people and a tibicen who approaches the altar in the centre, coming from the
left. To the right of the same altar
are a Camillus and a second figure.
A still more ancient layer of plaster shows on the right of the niche a strange
figure like a Lar pouring from a rhyton of curious shape into a patera (?) held
in the other hand; on each side of him are garlands”.
See Boyce G. K., 1937.
Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.97)
See Maiuri, Villa dei Misteri, 80, and fig. 32.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006.
Room
61, remains of painted plaster on north wall of kitchen lararium.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Masonry altar.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010.
Room
61, lararium in north wall of kitchen courtyard.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010. Room 61, looking south, along length of hearth and oven.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010. Room 61, west wall with hearth and oven, and remains
of niche.
According to NdS, another niche lararium was above the podium of the
hearth and oven.
The stucco had fallen
and brought to light a part of an ancient painted lararium, for all its
simplicity, not without interest.
At the side were the
remains of a painted helmeted Minerva, and of another divinity, perhaps Vulcan.
See Notizie di Scavi,
1910, p.141-2.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Room 61, hearth.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Room 61, oven and hearth, looking north.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010. Room 61, oven near south wall.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Room 61.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2006. Room 61, upper floor in north-east corner.
Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii.
May 2010. Kitchen courtyard, room 61.
East wall with
doorways to rooms 36 and 37 and corridor 38.
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