I.5.2 Pompeii. Officina coriariorum of M. Vesonius Primus. Tannery.
Excavated 1874.
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I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north along east portico towards doorway to two rooms leading to industrial area.
The ruined podium of the lararium can be seen on the west, left side, of the doorway. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north along east portico.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway into two rooms at north end of eastern portico looking north.
The remains of the solid podium, part of the lararium, can be seen in the lower left. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking north into room with window overlooking Vicolo del Conciapelle, and steps to a back industrial room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking north towards window overlooking Vicolo del Conciapelle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 548.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south from room with window, into room with steps and towards doorway to eastern portico. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Steps leading east towards an industrial back room with fifteen round vats. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. December 2023. Descriptive notice-board. Photo courtesy
of Miriam Colomer.
I.5.2 Pompeii. Drawing of “industrial area in north-east corner of insula”.
Warscher described this as being a reproduction from Mau, Pompeji, no.246, p.416.
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no.27), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
From Bull. Inst, 1875, p.20-22, she described,
Dal vano che
verso S da sull’estremità orientale del portico settentrionale, verso E per 3
scalini si entra in un compreso, la cui forma meglio che da una descrizione si
conoscera dai disegni aggiunti.
Sta desso
compreso sui cantone NE dell’isola, e la forma della parte settentrionale di
esso da luogho alla congniettura, che forse gia un atrio, di cui piu tardi si
chiudessero le fauces, ricostruendosi nello stesso tempo il muro di strada. Non
compresi le camere orientale, il vano in discorso e profondo 8.80, largo nella
parte orientale 9.85, in quella occidentale 9.25.
Quasi nel mezzo,
ma piu verso SE sta un pilastro quadrangolare, grosso 0.80 + 0.64; dei 4
quadrangoli inuguali, formati da due linea paralelli ai muri ed incrociantesi
nell’angolo NE del pilastro; quello verso NE, il piu grande, e stato lasciato
libero, mentre i tre rimanenti sono occupati dall’apparechio da descriversi
adesso.
Quella parte del
suolo cioe, che sul nostro disegno non e sgraffiata, e innalzata e coperta di
opus signinum, e circo scritta, ove non arriva fino al muro, da un basso rialzo
di materiale, che chiude anche la porta della camera NE, alto dalla parte esterna
0.23 a 0.27, da quella interna 0.14 a 0.18.
E siccome la
parte inchiusa cosi ha quasi uno stesso livello per tutto, mentre fuori il
suolo s’abbassa verso S, cosi verso S la differenza fra l’altessa esterna ed
interna del rialzo e piu grande.
Nella parte
adunque circo scritta in questo modo si trovano le seguenti affondature, la cui
disposizione si vede sul disegno
1: 15 vasche
grandi e rotunde, di forma poco regolare; qualche volta elittica, larghe da
1.25 + 1.60 a 1.50 + 1.60, profonde 1.40 a 1.50.
In mezzo al fondo
di ciascuna vi e un’affondatura poco profonda, tonda ma non regolare, e nel
lato di caiscuna due buchi che servivano per salire fuori.
Senza dubbio
siffatte vasche erano destinate per ammorbidirvi le pelli.
2: Tre vasche di
forma bislungha (m. 0.59 + 2.42; 0.52 + 2.70; 0.46 + 3.0).
Il lato quarto e
fatto in modo che nella parte inferiore le vasche sono piu lunghe che in qualla
superiore.
In esse si vede
il materiale nudo, ma si potra supporre che in qualche modo fosse o dovesse
essere rivestito.
3: Sette vasi
d’argilla incastrati nell’suolo e frapposti la maggior parte fra due vasche
rotonde ed una bislunga.
Il loro diametro
massimo e di m. 0.45, la profondita 0.40.
4: Fra ciascuno
di siffatti vasi e la vasca bislunga vi e un foro verticale, aperto verso la
vasca, profondo come questa medesima, e d’una forma quasi vi dovesse essere
incastrato un tubo di mattone, che pero non si trova in nessuno.
Nei vasi si trovo
una massa la cui analisi chimica forse dara ancora dei risultati: probabilmente
essa doveva servire per ammorbidire le pelli.
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no. 27), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.5.2 Pompeii.
October 2017. Looking south across industrial room, towards south-west
corner.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south across industrial room, towards south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking south-east towards south wall of industrial room. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. December 2023. Looking south-east towards round
vats in industrial room. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.
I.5.2 Pompeii. August 2023. Looking south-east towards south wall
of industrial room. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. 200 Detail of remains of round vats.
Looking towards south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
According to Mau, these vats were lined with cocciopesto or crushed potsherds, and had two openings, one to add the tanning agent and the other to drain it.
The vats were about 5 feet in diameter and from four to five and a half feet deep.
See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey, F. W., Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 397).
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east towards south wall of industrial room.
I.5.2 Pompeii. August 2023. Looking south-east towards south wall
of industrial room. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south-east towards the south wall of the industrial area.
I.5.2 Pompeii.
October 2017. Looking towards pilaster in south-east corner
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.5.2 Pompeii.
October 2017. Looking towards south-east corner.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across industrial room, towards east wall and south-east corner.
Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC
Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking east across industrial room, towards north-east corner and east wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. December 2023. Looking east across industrial room.
Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.
I.5.2 Pompeii.
October 2017. Looking north-east across industrial room, from south side.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. North-east corner of industrial room.
I.5.2 Pompeii. 1936, taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking towards north-east corner of industrial room.
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no.30), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.5.2 Pompeii. May 1886. Looking north-east across the industrial area.
Photograph courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, Fox Collection.
I.5.2 Pompeii. According to Warscher, this is “disegno del pittore Svirjdinsky”. Looking towards north end of industrial area.
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no.29), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.5.2 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards north-west side of industrial area.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 275.
I.5.2 Pompeii. 1936, taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking towards north-west side of industrial area.
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no.28), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.5.2 Pompeii. August 2023.
Looking west from industrial back room with fifteen vats
towards doorway and steps down. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking west from industrial back room with fifteen vats towards doorway and steps down.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Looking north from industrial area towards 3 doorways. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Three doorways on north side of industrial area.
I.5.2 Pompeii. August 2023. Looking north
from industrial area towards doorway on west side. Photo courtesy of Maribel Velasco.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway into room on west side of north wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii.
October 2017. Round window in north wall, looking onto Vicolo del
Conciapelle.
Foto
Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Round window in north wall, looking onto Vicolo del Conciapelle. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Round window in north wall.
I.5.2 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Looking towards north wall of room with round window.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 547.
I.5.2 Pompeii. 1936, taken by Tatiana Warscher. Looking towards north wall of room with round window.
Warscher described this window as being from room “O”.
See Herbig, R., 1929. Fensterstudien an antiken Wohnbauten in Italien. Rom. Mitteil. (p.292, no.46)
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no.22), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Detail of structure against the north wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010.
Looking south through doorway from room on west side of north end, towards industrial room.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2010. Doorway in centre of north wall of industrial room.
Note large square block of cipollino marble.
The doorway on the right, leads to a room possibly used as a dormitory. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
I.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005.
Looking east in room on north-east corner of industrial area, possibly used as a dormitory.
The window overlooks the Vicolo del Citarista.
I.5.2 Pompeii. 1936, taken by Tatiana Warscher.
Looking towards east wall with window overlooking the Vicolo del Citarista, in room in north-east corner of industrial area.
Warscher described this window as being from room “S”, the last (window) in photo no.21) (- l’ultima (finestra) sulla fotografia no.21)
See Warscher T., 1936. Codex Topographicus Pompeianus: Regio I.1, I.5. (no.22b), Rome: DAIR, whose copyright it remains.
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