I.10.7 Pompeii. Casa del Fabbro or House of the Smith or House of the Craftsman

or Domus and officina of M. Volusius Iuvencus and the Equitia.

Excavated 1914, 1927 and 1933.

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I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking east across the north portico of the garden area.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking south across the garden from the north portico.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking south-east across the garden from the north portico.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, looking south-east across the garden.

According to Jashemski –

“In the centre of the garden was the imprint left by a wooden triclinium, which Elia incorrectly called a stibadium, and a cavity left by one of the supports of the pergola”.

Jashemski sources –

Elia, NSc, (1934), p.291-2, 308 and fig.7 (plan) on p.277;

Mustilli, Botteghe di scultori in Pompeiana, p.218-9;

Soprano, p. 307, no.32;

Della Corte, Case, p.300.

According to Soprano –

Ubicazione: giardino.

Bibliog. “Not.Scavi”, 1934, p.291.

Nel giardino si rinvennero le impronte di un triclinio ligneo. Fu anche rinvenuto il vuoto di uno dei pali che sostenevano il pergolato.

See Soprano, P. (1950). I triclini all’aperto di Pompei. (In Pompeiana, raccolta di studi per il secondo centenario degli scavi di Pompei. Napoli, Gaetano Macchiaroli, Editore, P. 307, no.32).

I.10.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, south wall of garden area.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south wall.

According to Jashemski, a marble statuette of Hercules was found on a shelf here.

The shelf was 1.30m above the floor level. The statue was 0.43m high and its Pompeii inventory number was 20367.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.49)

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1978. Room 10, marble statuette of Hercules. 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.10.7 Pompeii. 1959.

Room 10, marble statuette of Hercules found on shelf on south 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.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from the garden to the north portico and room 9.

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1959. Lunchtime with Wilhelmina Jashemski. 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.10.7 Pompeii. 1959. Looking south across north portico to garden area. 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.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north portico. The puteal of the cistern at the east end.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 9 in the north wall of the portico.

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1959. Doorway to room 9, and east wall of the north portico, with “finds”. 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.10.7 Pompeii. 1934. Example of objects found.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, (p.306, fig. 22).

For full details of objects found:

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, (p.292 to p.308).

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, looking north in triclinium.

According to Peters, the central pictures on the northern and eastern walls have almost completely disappeared.

The subject of the one in the centre of the northern wall was “Paris and Hermes on Mount Ida”.

See Peters, W.J.T. (1963): Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings. The Netherlands, Van Gorcum & Comp. (p.90)

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1934. Room 9, painting from north wall showing Paris and Hermes on Mount Ida.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, p.289.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, west wall of triclinium.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, remains of the wall painting of the Daedalus and Icarus, from west wall of triclinium.

According to Peters, in 1963 this was becoming slightly indistinct and cracked.

See Peters, W.J.T. (1963): Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings. The Netherlands, Van Gorcum & Comp., (p.90-1 & fig.76).

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1934. Room 9, painting from west wall of Daedalus and Icarus.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, p. 291, fig. 12.

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Old undated photograph of detail from Daedalus and Icarus from west wall, shortly after excavation.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, east wall of triclinium.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, east wall of triclinium.

Remains of wall painting of a sacred landscape cut through by the lararium niche.

According to Peters, the sacred landscape from this wall was decayed beyond recognition (p.90).

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, east wall of triclinium. Lararium niche set in third style decoration.

Two crested and bearded brown serpents with yellow underbellies are creeping to the left between red flowers and green plants.

On the right is an altar.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (L15: p.256)

According to Boyce, this shallow rectangular niche was set into (but not in the centre of) a fine panel of wall decoration, which it disfigured.

According to the footnote by Boyce, Elia had said in Not. Scavi, that these panels were painted shortly after the earthquake of 63 AD.

Both serpents coil from the left towards an altar, as in the other lararium described in the kitchen.

In the background were green plants with red flowers.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, 287.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.29, no.57)

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, north-west corner of triclinium, with remains of skeletons.

According to Civale, “in the triclinium two people had sought refuge: an adult who was discovered on the floor, his arms clutching the edge of a dining couch, and a second, younger victim his arms folded under the head and legs stretched out on the floor.

On the ground between the adult’s feet, lay a little cloth bag containing a small hoard of 26 silver coins, amounting to just 104 sesterces.

In the triclinium, another little heap of 48 coins was found, perhaps also the savings of one of the victims.”

See Guzzo, P.G. ed. (2003): Tales from an eruption – (Civale, A: The House of the Craftsman). Milan, Electa; (p.140-41)

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1934. Room 9, looking towards north-west corner of triclinium, with remains of skeletons.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, p. 286, fig. 10.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, floor in triclinium.

I.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, tablinum, looking north to atrium.

1.10.7 Pompeii, June 2019.

Heavy gold chain with figure-of-eight links, snake head fastening and pendant featuring a statuette of Isis Fortuna, holding a rudder and cornucopia.

This was one of the jewels found in the atrium and in the tablinum.

On display in Palestra exhibition of jewellery entitled “Vanity, storie di gioielli dalle Cicladi a Pompei”, from 10^th May 2019 to 5^th August 2019.

SAP inventory number 5413. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

See Guzzo, P.G. ed. (2003): Tales from an eruption – (Civale, A: The House of the Craftsman). Milan, Electa; (p.140-42)

I.10.7 Pompeii. 1959. Looking north from portico, across tablinum to atrium and entrance doorway. 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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