I.3.27 Pompeii. Pistrinum. Excavated 1869?

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I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. ID number plate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west to entrance doorway.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north to entrance doorway.

I.3.27 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

A part of the street facade wall on the north side of the entrance doorway.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.74), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.27 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher.

Supporting arch, a part of the street facade wall on the south side of the entrance doorway.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.72), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south to entrance doorway.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance, looking west.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking west from entrance.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west across bakery room, from entrance. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010.  Doorway to room in north-east corner of bakery room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Small room on north side of entrance.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards north wall, and north-east corner with recess. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of plaster on north wall of small room, and recess in north-east corner.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of small room with window onto Vicolo del Citarista.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards entrance doorway of bakery. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east across bakery room, from western end.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east across bakery room of pistrinum towards entrance doorway into Vicolo del Citarista.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of pistrinum or bakery room.

According to Fiorelli, when excavated the remains of a painted lararium were found somewhere in this area.

Fiorelli said only the two serpents approaching the prepared altar remained visible.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 40)

Boyce said, on one wall was a fragmentary lararium painting, of which a single Lar, and the serpents confronted at an altar with offerings, were visible at the time of excavation.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 24)

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking east to circular feature (base of millstone) at east end of north wall of bakery room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north to circular feature (base of millstone) in centre of north wall of bakery room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking towards remains of circular feature (base of millstone) at west end of north wall of bakery room.

Originally there would have been four millstones. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. South side of pistrinum, looking towards south wall of bakery room, and south-east corner.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of pistrinum or bakery room, on the east side of room on the east side of the oven.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south to doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards doorway in south wall of bakery room.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room on the east side of the oven.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. North-east corner of room on the east side of the oven.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south towards grindstone in room on the east side of the oven.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking north with detail of grindstone in room on south side of bakery room, on east side of oven. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking towards east wall and south-east corner of room on south side of bakery room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking towards south wall, note small side room in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.27 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south in room on the east side of the oven.

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