I.3.29 Pompeii. House of Innulus. Excavated 1869.

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I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 1, south wall of atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, south wall of atrium. 

I.3.29 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, atrium, showing east wall and doorway to room 6, triclinium.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east towards room 6, directly south of fauces. The fauces can be seen on the left of the photo.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, triclinium, looking south-east.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. South wall of room 6, the triclinium on south side of fauces. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Room 6, looking towards remains of doorway in west wall, and south-west corner.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south towards south wall and south-west end of fauces. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south to south wall and south-east end of fauces. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking west from fauces, into room 1, the atrium. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking east from room 1 the atrium, towards fauces and doorway onto Vicolo del Citarista.

The doorways to room 2 on the north side and room 6 on the south side are visible. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north along Vicolo del Citarista. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

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. 

I.3.29 Pompeii. 1935 photograph taken by Tatiana Warscher. Exterior street facade wall between I.3.29 and I.3.28, on the right.

See Warscher, T, 1935: Codex Topographicus Pompejanus, Regio I, 3: (no.76), Rome, DAIR, whose copyright it remains. 

I.3.29 Pompeii. Site of street altar. December 2006. 

Fiorelli stated that at the end of this side of the insula, painted on the external wall was a divinita tutelare of the road, a big serpent with black crest coiling around the trunk of a tree.  Under the head of the serpent, written in small black letters, one used to be able to read INNVLVS ROGAT.

Now no longer visible.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001, La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875).  Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.41)

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (F2 on p. 306)

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (p.1, no.5, on a white background, partly destroyed).

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, on left. December 2006.       Vicolo del Citarista, looking north.            I.10.11, on right.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010.

Looking west along unnamed vicolo, from corner of insula with Vicolo del Citarista. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

I.2 Pompeii, on left. September 2005.   Unnamed vicolo, looking west.       Side corner of I.3.29, on right.

I.2.17 Pompeii, on left. December 2006.      Unnamed vicolo, looking west.                     I.3.29, on right.

I.3.29 Pompeii. September 2010. Corner of insula and exterior of property.

Looking towards ID plate on south-east corner of insula I.3. 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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