V.4.a Pompeii. Casa di Marco
Lucrezio Frontone or House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto.
V.4.11 Pompeii. Rear entrance.
Excavated 1899.
Quick outline
This page has been created to give an appreciation of the main rooms and areas of the beautiful House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto.
Detail
If you are interested to see the house in more detail, the rooms are shown in greater detail in these subsequent parts.
Detailed photos House Garden Rear entrance
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Looking east to entrance doorway.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2012.
Looking east into atrium ‘b’, from entrance corridor ‘a’, towards tablinum ‘h’. Photo courtesy of Marina Fuxa.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking west along entrance corridor/fauces ‘a’ towards entrance doorway, from decorative threshold of atrium ‘b’.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘b’, looking towards north wall of atrium.
On the atrium walls can be seen a number of small paintings of dogs, deer and a snail.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Atrium room ‘b’, looking east across marble impluvium with twist patterned mosaic edge and marble table.
One of the table legs has a different pattern than the other three.
The atrium floor has a pattern made with different coloured marble pieces.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018.
Room ‘b’, looking towards east wall of atrium, with corridor ‘k’, on left, tablinum ‘h’, in centre, and room ‘i’, on right.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March
2023. Looking towards south-east corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Johannes
Eber.
V.4.a Pompeii. January 2023. Room ‘b’, looking south-east across impluvium in atrium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘b’, south wall of atrium with doorways to rooms ‘g’ and ‘f’, in centre.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018.
Room ‘b’, west side of atrium, with room ‘d’, on left, entrance corridor, room ‘c’, and staircase ‘e’, on right.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018.
Room ‘c’, looking west from doorway threshold across mosaic floor.
On the wall are several small red panels with scenes.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘f’, looking towards east wall.
On the wall is a painting of Orestes killing Neoptolemus at the altar before the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘g’, looking towards east wall of cubiculum.
On the wall is a painting of the Toilet of Venus or the Toilette of Aphrodite and paintings of birds and a garden scene.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘g’, looking towards west wall of cubiculum.
On the wall is a painting of Theseus and Ariadne at the entrance of the Labyrinth.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘h’, looking towards north wall of tablinum, with doorway to corridor ‘k’, on left.
In the centre of the wall is a painting of the wedding of Mars and Venus. Above it is a panel with a painting of fishes.
On either side are small panels with paintings of villas.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘h’, looking towards south wall of tablinum.
In the centre is a wall painting of the festival procession of Bacchus and Ariadne riding on a chariot drawn by two oxen.
On either side are paintings of maritime villa scenes. At the base of the wall are painted garden scenes.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. July 2010. Room ‘i’, west wall of cubiculum, with doorway to atrium.
On the walls are portrait medallions, one of a young girl and one of a boy with the attributes of Mercury (winged helmet and caduceus).
A large painting is of Pero suckling her father Micone and has a Latin inscription in white letters in the top left corner.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018.
Room ‘l’ (L), looking towards south portico, with doorways to rooms ‘v’, on left, ‘u’, ‘t’ and ‘s’, on right.
In the centre of the floor of the exedra ‘t’ is the remains of a panel that contained a geometric pattern of marble tiles.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
V.4.a Pompeii. May 2015. Room ‘s’, looking south through doorway into summer triclinium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
There are paintings of Dionysus (Bacchus) accompanied by Silenus playing the lyre, Pyramus and Thisbe, and a third faded unidentified painting.
There are also several paintings of birds and plants.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018.
Room ‘s’, looking out from summer triclinium, north wall with doorway to portico and garden area.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘l’ (L), looking north-east across garden area.
On the wall is a hunt scene with life size animals including a bear, deer and a stag, lions, and a wild boar.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘l’ (L), looking towards north wall of garden area.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
V.4.a Pompeii. March 2018. Room ‘l’ (L), looking towards east wall, and south-east corner, on right.
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Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR
V.4.11/V.4.a
Pompeii. March 2018.
Looking east to rear entrance doorway from south-east corner of garden area, with doorway to room ‘v’, on right.
Foto Annette
Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Looking west from entrance doorway into garden “l” with rooms “v” left and “x” right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.