III .2.1 Pompeii. Casa di
Trebius Valens or House of Aulus Trebius Valens.
Excavated 1913 and 1915.
III.2.1 Pompeii. May 2024.
Doorway to room 7 on east side of atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009.
Doorway to room 7, from room 6, looking east along south wall towards south-east corner.
The south wall must have been affected by the 1943 bombing.
III.2.1 Pompeii. c. June/July 1915. Detail from south wall of room 7, oecus.
(Described by Della Corte in NdS, as “salone d”).
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1915, (p.338,
fig.2).
III.2.1 Pompeii. c. June/July 1915. Description of “Salone d”, room 7.
In salone (d), in an earlier time, there was access
through a doorway at the right end of the east wall in the atrium; then having
walled-up this doorway, one entered the room through the small room (b) (our
room 6), through an open doorway in the east wall of the latter.
This room, rectangular in shape, was covered by a large
vault, traces of which are preserved, and lit by a square window at the top of
the south wall.
The floor is made of crushed limestone like that of the small room (b). The walls bear
an elegant decoration of 3rd Style on an entirely black background,
which is the same on the opposite walls (fig.2 above). In the centre of each
wall is the usual canopy formed by very thin white columns with Ionic capitals,
supporting a light flat entablature. The upper part of the canopies invades the
frieze; and on it rest light architectures, just as they likewise adorn the
field of the frieze. On the sides of the canopies, on the short walls, a panel on
each side; on the two long walls, divided by a sort of tall and slender yellow
candelabrum, invading the frieze. In the area under the canopies, and in the
centre of each panel, a “fantastic” flying animal, or a deer, a panther, a
parrot, a swan, an eagle, etc.
The plinth/zoccolo is divided into panels of different
shapes and sizes, limited by thin coloured bands, and in correspondence with
the divisions of the main area of wall.
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1915, (p.337).
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south wall of oecus in south-east corner.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south wall of oecus. Detail from lower panel at east end.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south-east corner of oecus.
III.2.1 Pompeii. May 2024.
Room 7, detail from south end of east wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, east wall of oecus.
III.2.1 Pompeii. May 2024.
Room 7, detail from lower east wall of oecus. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.2.1 Pompeii. May 2024.
Room 7, detail from north end of east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, north end of east wall of oecus.
III.2.1 Pompeii. 1968.
Room 7, oecus, detail from north end of 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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III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, north wall of oecus.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, north wall of oecus. Detail from upper wall at west end.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, north wall of oecus. Detail from upper wall at east end.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west wall of oecus.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west wall of oecus. Detail from upper wall at north end.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 8, cubiculum.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, east wall of cubiculum.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north wall of cubiculum.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, south-west corner of cubiculum.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north-west corner of cubiculum.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, doorway and circular window in west wall of cubiculum.