I.3.4 Pompeii. Shop. Excavated 1860.

I.3.4 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.4 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking east across Via Stabiana towards entrance doorways, I.3.4, centre left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.3.4 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across Via Stabiana towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to CTP, the street entrance was walled up as of April 1982.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.6)

I.3.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Shop.

According to Warscher, quoting Fiorelli, she wrote –

I.3.4 “Bottega annessa alla casa precedente, dalla quale si passava per una porta che ha nel fondo”.

(translation: Shop annexed to the previous house, to which one went through a door that it had at the rear”.)

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3:  Rome, DAIR. 

I.3.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking towards the north-east corner of the shop.

I.3.4 Pompeii. December 2007. East wall of shop, with doorway at rear of shop connecting to atrium of I.3.3.

I.3.4 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking towards the eastern wall and doorway into I.3.3, from the entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.4 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of doorway into the atrium of I.3.3. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.4 Pompeii. September 2010.

South wall and south-west corner of the shop, looking west onto Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.4 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall and stone base of staircase in south-west corner at front of shop.

I.3.4 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west onto Via Stabiana, from rear of shop. 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.”).