I.9.3 Pompeii. Casa di Successus.
Linked to I.9.4. Excavated 1913 and 1952.
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I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9 with doorway to room 7 in north-west corner.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, looking north to garden area.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, looking south from top of stairs through doorway of room 9.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, east wall from south end of garden area.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, north portico from south end of garden area.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 10, on east side of tablinum.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 10, north wall with site of painting of Successus, and hole made by ancient searchers, now filled in on the right.
I.9.3 Pompeii. January 2024.
Room 10, painting of the boy Adonis/Successus(?), from centre of north wall. PAP inventory number 41661.
Photo courtesy of
Johannes Eber.
Room 10, centre of
north wall, Adonis as a child, fresco, 1st century AD. (Adone bambino. Affresco, I sec. d.C.)
On display in exhibition “L’altra Pompei, vite
comuni all’ombra del Vesuvio”.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
On display in exhibition “L’altra Pompei, vite comuni all’ombra del Vesuvio”.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration on north wall.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration of plants on north wall.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration of plants on north wall.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking towards the east wall.
According to PPM, on the left can be seen a hole made by the ancient searchers on the north wall.
The middle zone of the east wall was yellow, with a central aedicula which contained a painting of Adone ferito (now faded).
The upper area was also yellow with a painting of Venus Pompeiana in the centre aedicula.
In the side panels of the upper area, were hanging buckets separated by architectural views, garlands, borders with “carpet” pattern, and dolphins in the corners, and holes made by the support beams for the vaulted ceiling.
I.9.3 Pompeii. 1957. Room 10. Upper part of the east wall.
The upper area was also yellow with a painting of Venus Pompeiana in the centre aedicula.
In the side panels of the upper area, were hanging buckets separated by architectural views, garlands, borders with “carpet” pattern, and dolphins in the corners, and holes made by the support beams for the vaulted ceiling.
Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.9.3 Pompeii. 1959. Room 10. East wall. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.9.3 Pompeii. 1959. Room 10, central painting of Adone Ferito, from east wall. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration on east wall.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration of a “hanging bucket” on east wall.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration on east wall.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, remains of painted decoration on south wall, with an illegible central painting, on the right.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, painted decoration from upper area of south wall.
According to PPM, this was a bacchic figure.
I.9.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south-west corner.