I.3.1 Pompeii. Sweet pastry bakery? Excavated 1872.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of small room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. March 2009. East rear wall.

I.3.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east towards oven and east rear wall.

I.3.1 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking east to oven in north-east corner.
See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3. (no.2), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.1 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking east to oven in north-east corner.

See Warscher T., 1935. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3. (no.2), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards east wall and oven internal north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards east wall and oven internal in north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards north wall and internals of oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north-east across oven, with details of floor of oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north-east across oven, with detail of floor of oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across oven, showing close up of oven door from inside oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across oven, showing close up of oven doorway from inside oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across bakery room towards Via Stabiana from oven room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west across north side of bakery room towards Via Stabiana from oven room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east into oven room, and doorway to rear room, on right. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east into oven room, and with the doorway to a rear room, on right. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west through doorway towards bakery room and Via Stabiana, from rear room on south side of oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west through doorway towards bakery room and Via Stabiana, from rear room on south side of oven.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of rear room, with entrance doorway on right.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. West wall of rear room, with entrance doorway on right. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of rear room with windows overlooking small unnamed vicolo. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

South wall of rear room with windows overlooking small unnamed vicolo. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Details of lower part of rear room, showing column parts.
Looking south. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Detail of lower part of rear room, showing column parts. Looking south. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. South-east corner and east wall of rear room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from bakery sales room onto via Stabiana.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from bakery sales room onto Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

Photo taken in the late 1800’s, showing insula I.3 after excavation.
I.3.1 is on the right hand side. Courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries,
Fox Collection.

Photo taken in the late 1800s, showing insula I.3 in Pompeii, after excavation. I.3.1 is on the right-hand side.

Courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.

I.3.3/2/1 Pompeii, on left. September 2005. Unnamed vicolo looking east, taken from Little Theatre and I.2.15/14/13 on right.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east along unnamed vicolo, from Via Stabiana.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east along unnamed vicolo, from Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.1 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate at corner of intersection of unnamed vicolo and Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

In Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.3, (the copy at DAIR), Warscher included a description of the insula.

This description is included at the end in all parts of I.3 on the website.

“L’isola 3 della Regio I apparteneva ai quartieri piuttosto poveri, ad’esenzione della casa no. 3 tutto le case sono di dimensioni non grandi.

La casa no. 3 presenta un interesse dal punto di vista della costruzione: il peristilio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello dell’atrio:

questa particolarità si riscontra solamente in questa casa.

Noi abbiamo un esempio inverso nella casa dell’Ancora nera ove l’atrio si trova ad un livello più alto di quello del peristilio.

Si sente bene nell’isola in questione la vicinanza dell’anfiteatro da una parte e delle caserme dei gladiatori dall’altra.

Non c’è dubbio che le case nos 23, 25 siano state abitato da gladiatori.

(translation: “Insula 3 of Region I belonged to a rather poor neighbourhood, with the exception of house No. 3 all the houses were not large in size.

The house at no. 3 had a special interest from the point of view of construction: the peristyle sits at a level higher than that of the atrium: this particularity was found only in this house. We have a contrary example in the House of the Black Anchor where the atrium was located at a higher level than that of the peristyle.

The nearness of the amphitheatre on one side and the gladiators' barracks on the other suited well the inhabitants of the insula in question.

There was no doubt that the houses numbered 23, 25 had been inhabited by gladiators.”).

Part 1