I.3.8 Pompeii. Two houses both entered via a common angiportus.

I.3.8a Pompeii. Unnamed house. Excavated 1868.    

I.3.8b Pompeii. House of Vulcanus. Excavated 1869.

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I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north through doorway into west portico of peristyle.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north along walkway behind arches on west side.

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south along walkway behind arches on west side of peristyle.

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south along walkway behind arches on west side of peristyle.

I.3.8b Pompeii. December 2006. Arches on west side of peristyle.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west from centre of peristyle garden towards west portico, showing access to garden between the two brick columns under the central arch.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1931 photograph, looking towards the west portico. 

This negative belonged to the Institute Germanico, 1931, 2839.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.18a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

DAIR 31.2839. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher, looking towards west portico.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.17), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south-west from centre of peristyle garden towards south portico.

On the left can be seen the large window from the garden, looking into the exedra. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from centre of peristyle garden towards south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking across peristyle towards south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across peristyle garden. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

According to Boyce, somewhere along the east wall of the peristyle was a niche.

In the niche, a terracotta statuette of Minerva was found.

She was wearing a helmet and holding a shield on her left arm and holding a patera in her right hand.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.24, no.22)

Giornale degli Scavi, N.S. I, 1869, p. 301.

Boyce gave a note 1 on page 24, to this entry. It read –

In a room opening off the east side of the peristyle a bronze statuette of Fortuna was found.

She was holding a cornucopia against her left shoulder.

Giornale degli Scavi, N.S. I, 1869, p. 305.

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Taken from the centre of the peristyle, looking east along the north portico towards the corner column in the north-east corner, and the column on the east portico.

Above the top of the parapet you can see the rooms located in the eastern part of the house.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.22), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards north-east corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39.

Taken from the centre of the peristyle, looking towards the second and third columns of the north portico. 

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive.  Warsher collection no. 1497.

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Taken from the centre of the peristyle, looking towards the second and third columns of the north portico. 

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.21), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards north-west corner of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking towards north-west corner and north wall of peristyle. 

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.18), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.8b Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Looking towards west portico and north-west corner of peristyle.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.17a), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of Doric capital from column. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of southern arch. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of central arch. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.8b Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of northern arch. 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.”).

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