I.3.29 Pompeii. Site of street shrine. December 2006.
Fiorelli stated that at the end of this side of the insula, painted on the external wall was a divinità tutelare of the road, a serpent coiling around the trunk of a tree. Under this, in small letters, one used to be able to read INNVLVS ROGAT.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001, La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (P.41)
I.2 Pompeii, on left. September 2005. Unnamed vicolo, looking west. Side corner of I.3.29, with site of street shrine on right.
I.3.29 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.
South-east corner of insula, site of street shrine. The remains of the painted serpent can be seen.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.79), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.3.29 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.
Looking north towards entrance doorways to I.3.29, on left, and I.3.28, on right.
The site of the street shrine can be seen on the left exterior wall.
See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.77), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains.