III.4.b Pompeii. House of Pinarius Cerialis and Cassia
or Casa dell’orefice or Casa di
Ifigenia.
Excavated 1916 to 1917 and 1926.
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 1 Plan
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, anteroom/exedra. Looking north.
The doorway to cubiculum/oecus 3 is on the left, the doorway to triclinium 5 is on the right.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, west wall of anteroom/exedra, with the doorway to room 3.
III.4.b Pompeii. 1968.
Room 4, west wall of anteroom/exedra. 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.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, west wall of anteroom/exedra with painting of cupid with horn.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, upper west wall of anteroom/exedra.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, detail from upper west wall of anteroom/exedra.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, detail from west wall of anteroom/exedra.
III.4.b Pompeii. 1968.
Room 4, detail from west wall of anteroom/exedra. 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.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, north wall of anteroom/exedra.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 4, north wall, west end, of anteroom/exedra with painting of floating cupid on yellow side panel.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 4, north wall of anteroom/exedra with painting of floating cupid in middle of central red panel.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 4, north wall, east end, of anteroom/exedra with painting of floating cupid on yellow side panel.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, upper north wall of anteroom/exedra.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 4, upper north wall of anteroom/exedra. Painting of crowned figure with thyrsus and drinking horn.
According to Kuivalainen –
“The pictorial programme as a whole and the posture of the youth support the identification as Bacchus, depicted half naked.”
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.94-95, B1).
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall of anteroom/exedra, with doorway to room 5.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, upper east wall, north end, of anteroom/exedra.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 4, upper east wall, north end, of anteroom/exedra. Painting of winged figure wearing a crown and holding a spear.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall, north end, of anteroom/exedra. Architectural painting.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall, north end, of anteroom/exedra. Floating cupid.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, east wall of anteroom/exedra. Floating cupid.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, upper east wall of anteroom/exedra, above doorway to room 5.
III.4.b Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, detail from east wall of anteroom/exedra, above door