V.2.i Pompeii. Casa delle Nozze d’Argento or House of the Silver Wedding

or Domus L. Albucius Celsus.

Excavated between 1891 and 1908. Restored and reopened July 2023.

Quick Outline

This page has been created to give an appreciation of the main rooms and areas of the Casa delle Nozze d’Argento, one of the most splendid private houses in the city.

Detail

If you are then interested to see the house in more detail, the rooms are shown in greater detail in the subsequent parts.

Detailed photos    

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 1, atrium and impluvium looking south towards tablinum and peristyle. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 1, looking north-west across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Room 1, atrium, looking north-east towards entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 1, atrium.

Looking north-east across impluvium with compluvium above. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 1, atrium, looking south-east across south end of impluvium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 4, north-west corner and north wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Room 1, south-east corner of atrium, looking towards room 5, east ala. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 5, looking towards lower south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. October 2023. Tablinum 7 on south side of atrium, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 7, looking towards east wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 12, garden area, looking south towards baths area with latrine on left. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Peristyle, looking south-east from north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Doorway to room 18, bedroom or small dining room, on right. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 18, south wall of bedroom or small dining room. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Room 19, looking south from portico. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 19, looking north across peristyle from exedra. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. South portico of peristyle, with doorway to room 20, on left. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 20, looking south from doorway. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Peristyle 23, looking east along south portico, from room 20. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 21, Corinthian oecus, looking east from portico. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 21, Corinthian oecus, looking west along north wall. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 21, Corinthian oecus, north and east walls. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 21, Corinthian oecus, north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 21, Corinthian oecus, looking west onto south portico. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Room 23, Rhodian peristyle. Looking west in north-west corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. 1898.

Room 23, peristyle, watercolour by Luigi Bazzani of black painted panels from walls of peristyle.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.6252-1910.

Vicolo dei Balconi, north end on the left in 2018, is running south alongside the green area of the garden 25 of V.2.i.

In the foreground is the newly excavated Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento and in front is V.7 under excavation.

Photograph © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

V.2.i Pompeii. August 2023. Room 25, looking north across triclinium, in centre, and pool, on right. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. July 2023. Room 25, looking north-east across large garden area to east of house with triclinium and pool.

At the end of the construction site, by the "Cura del Verde" area it was possible to regenerate the three large green areas with the formation of three aesthetic and utilitarian gardens based on archaeological data and finds and on an interpretation of the proportions of the spaces of the domus as well as on the internal perspective visual axes.

A conclusione del cantiere, da parte dell’Area “Cura del Verde” è stato possibile rigenerare le tre ampie aree verdi con la formazione di tre giardini estetici ed utilitaristici basati sui dati e reperti archeologici e su un’interpretazione delle proporzioni degli spazi della domus oltre che sugli assi visuali prospettici interni.

See PAP: La casa delle Nozze d'Argento – Riapre 16 luglio 2023 a conclusione dei restauri

Photograph © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

V.2.i Pompeii. July 2023.

Room 25, large garden area to east of house with triclinium and fountain pool, looking north-west.

Photograph © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.