I.11.15 Pompeii. Casa del piano
superiore or Casa del primo piano.
Linked to 1.11.9. Excavated 1952-55 and 1957.
Part 4 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Plan
I.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007.
Room 10, garden area, looking north towards doorways of rooms 19 and 20 on lower level.
I.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, garden level room on east side of garden.
I.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 19, amphora in garden level room on east side of garden.
I.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, garden level room on east side of garden.
I.11.15 Pompeii. April 2012. Room 10, looking towards north side of garden area. Photo courtesy of Marina Fuxa.
I.11.15 Pompeii. 1959. Room 10, looking towards north side of 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.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, garden area, looking at the east side showing upper and lower floors.
I.11.15 Pompeii. May 2016. Description card. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.11.15, Pompeii. May 2016.
Fragment of Nilotic scene which decorated the parapet of the upper floor balcony, found 1952-53. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
The display card states that both fragments were once part of a single large fresco.
According to Grete Stefani,
the painting (SAP 56310a) is very interesting and has only recently been made
known to scholars.
Detached from a wall of
Pompeii in an unspecified period, it was preserved, without any indication of
its provenance, in the Pompeii Excavations' Restoration Workshop and, despite
the efforts made, it had so far not been able to trace the original location of
the painting.
New data presented here, on
the other hand, may help to clarify, in addition to the provenance, some
iconographic aspects.
In fact, the photographic
documentation of 1953 relating to the painting is preserved at the Photographic
Archive of the Superintendence when it was still on site on the external side
of the opus craticium wall that delimited the balcony on the upper floor of the
house of Pompeii I 11, 15 (Photo SAP A 1522, Fig. 4); the painting also
included a portion with hippos, now restored as a panel in its own right and
whose relevance had been lost and a contiguous portion, now lost.
See Stefani, G.
2010. Luoghi e Personificazioni di luoghi nelle Pitture dell'area Vesuviana:
AIPMA 2010, p. 258, fig. 4.
Our thanks to Domenico Esposito for his help in verifying the provenance of these fragments.
I.11.15 Pompeii. May 2016, photographed on display in the Antiquarium. SAP 56310d.
Fragment of III Style, showing two hippos with open jaws.
The display card, above, states that both fragments were once part of a single large fresco from the parapet of the balcony.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
I.11.15 Pompeii. January 2023.
Room 10, looking east across garden area. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.
I.11.15 Pompeii. January 2023.
Room 10, looking north-east across garden area. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.
I.11.15 Pompeii. 1959.
Room 10, garden area, looking at the east side showing upper and lower floors. 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.11.15 Pompeii. April 2012. Room 10, looking towards east side of garden area. Photo courtesy of Marina Fuxa.
I.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, tank or trough in garden area.
I.11.15 Pompeii. 1959. Room 10, looking towards east side of 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.11.15 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, garden area, looking at the east side showing upper and lower floors.
I.11.15 Pompeii. Medical instruments. SAP 11286a-e.
Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.