I.10.8 Pompeii. Casa di Minucius
or Domus and textrina of Minucius Fuscus and Minucius Epaphra.
Excavated 1929 and 1934.
Part 4 Part 1 Part 2
Part 3 Plan
I.10.8 Pompeii. December 2018.
South side of
atrium, with doorways to room 6 on left, room 7 the corridor, and room 8, on
right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. South side of atrium, with doorways to room 6, room 7 the corridor, and room 8.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to corridor 7 to rear, and room 8 on west side of atrium.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, looking south.
NdS describes this room as trapezoidal with a high zoccolo of red brick-plaster, and the upper part of the wall being white.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità,
1934, p.314
I.10.8
Pompeii. April 2017.
Room
8, looking south through doorway towards west wall with remains of high
zoccolo.
Photo
courtesy of Adrian Hielscher.
I.10.8 Pompeii. December 2018. Doorway to corridor 7. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 7, the corridor to rear.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, corridor to rear and kitchen.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, kitchen with remains of hearth in north-west corner.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, looking north to remains of hearth.
I.10.8 Pompeii. 1934. Room 9, looking north to kitchen area
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934,
p. 315, fig. 27.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 10 in east wall of kitchen area.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east wall of triclinium.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north wall of triclinium.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, west wall of triclinium.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Small room (exedra?) on north side of rear garden, room 11.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009.
Small room on north side of rear garden, room 11, north wall, with remains of vaulted ceiling and upper window.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, looking west across garden area.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, west wall of garden.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, south wall of garden.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, east wall with niche, in garden area.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, arched niche lararium in east wall of garden area.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, arched niche.
According to Boyce and Giacobello, in the east wall of the garden was an arched niche with a very thick projecting floor.
The side walls were yellow, and the rear wall was white, and upon it was a painting.
Of this painting only, a green tree was visible to Boyce in 1937.
On the white surface of the wall to the left of the niche, a Lar was painted in blue garments. He held as situla in his lowered right hand but his left was not preserved.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934, p.
316.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.29, no.58)
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.257)
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, north side of niche, painted yellow.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, top of niche, painted yellow.
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, looking north-west across garden area to room 9 (left) and room 10 (right).
I.10.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 11, looking north across garden area to doorway to small room (exedra?), on right and room 10 on left.
Numerous objects were found in this house.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1934,
p. 317-320.
See Allison P. M., 2006. The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii Volume III: The Finds, a Contextual Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 214-230.
See Online Companion details and photographs of finds from I.10.8.