III .2.1 Pompeii. Casa di Trebius Valens or House of Aulus Trebius
Valens.
Excavated 1913 and 1915.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north along east portico to doorway of room 14.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. East portico, marble base of column.
When excavated this was found upside down against the wall of the east ambulatory.
The base, reportedly for an honorary statue, is inscribed “TR MIL IIII DUOVIR QUATER”.
See Della Corte, M., 1965. Case ed Abitanti di Pompei. Napoli: Fausto Fiorentino. (p.346).
III.2.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. East portico, upside down base of column.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1919.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium? Looking north.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium? East wall.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium? South wall with door to portico.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium? North-west corner.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 14, triclinium? West wall between the two windows overlooking the peristyle.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, triclinium? South-west corner.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. North-east corner of east portico, next to doorway to room 14.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. South portico, looking west to doorway to side entrance (unexcavated side road).
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, exedra/triclinium. Looking south from portico.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, north-east corner of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, east wall of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, exedra/triclinium. Detail of north end of east wall.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, east wall of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, south end of east wall of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, south wall of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. c.1915.
Room 15, looking towards south-west corner in exedra/triclinium.
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1915, (p.421,
fig. 3).
III.2.1 Pompeii. c.1915. Extract from NdS, referring to Room 15, exedra/triclinium.
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1915, (p.420).
(The exedra in question, with a rectangular plan and a signinum floor, has a noble decoration of the III Style on the walls (fig.3), it has a decoration consisting of a black plinth divided into panels by simple stripes; in a frieze with a white background with rare architectural perspectives animated by garlands, hanging masks, eagles and griffins with outstretched wings; and in a sober and elegant middle area. This consists, for each wall, of 3 large panels (green in the middle (note our pictures – yellow? in the middle), red in the side panels) surrounded by black bands adorned with yellow friezes, and separated from each other by slender white columns with metallic friezes. In the centre of the middle panels are groups of objects and competitive vases; in the centre of the side panels, pheasants and flying swans.
At the top of the middle area there is a band on which are represented many panels with a black background (4 for each wall), groups of doves pecking, or ducks floating in a pond, (fig. 4, and see fig. 3 on the right): and animals hunting, such as a panther reaching and mauling a deer, a dog about to throw itself onto a rabbit (fig, 3 on the left).
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, west wall of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. c.1915. Room 15, detail from upper west wall of exedra/triclinium, at south end.
See Notizie degli Scavi di
Antichità, 1915, (p.420).
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, exedra/triclinium. Detail of painting on south end of west wall
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, exedra/triclinium. Remains of detail of painting on north end of west wall
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, north-west corner of exedra/triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north across portico, to side entrance doorway and doorway to room 16
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Side entrance doorway, into unexcavated side road, from portico.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 16, from portico.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, cubiculum. Looking north.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Bronze statuette of Venus wringing her hair, found in 1916 in the south-west corner of room 16.
It was found with other items, including bronze statuettes of Hercules and Mercury.
SAP inventory number 2275.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, exedra on west side of peristyle.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north-west from exedra to remains of rooms 18 and 19.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from exedra to remains of rooms 18 and 19, small corridor and wall of summer triclinium.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Niche or recess in west wall of room 18.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway from small corridor to room 18.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from small corridor into area of room 19.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 19, north-west corner.
III.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of plaster on west wall of small corridor, between room 17 and room 18.