V.1.26 Pompeii. Casa di L.
Cecilio Giocondo or House of Lucius Caecilius Jucundus.
Domus L. Caecili Iucundi. Excavated 1844 and 1875.
For extra detailed information see Swedish Pompeii Project web site
Room “s”, looking towards doorway to room on east side of peristyle garden.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “s”, west wall with window onto peristyle. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
“West wall in 2012. Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “s”, north wall with doorway. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
“North wall in 2012. Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “s”, north wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “s”, east wall. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
“East wall in 2012. Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “s”, east wall.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “s”, south-east corner, and doorway in south wall to room “r”.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “s”, south wall. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
“South wall in 2012. Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “s”, doorway in south wall leading to exedra “r”.
V.1.26 Pompeii. Pre 2008. Room “s”, south wall. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
“South wall before 2008, when the room was roofed.”
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. October 2023.
Room L, looking east across peristyle towards room “r”, in centre. Photo
courtesy of Johannes Eber.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 1959.
Room L, looking east across peristyle towards window to room “s”, room “r”, and window to room “t”. 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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V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, looking south across east side of peristyle.
The large exedra “r” has a column on either side of the entrance.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “s”, west wall with window.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “r”, exedra with a column on either side of entrance.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “r”, marble table in exedra.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012? - post 2008 when room “s” was roofed.
Room “r”, 21, north wall with doorway into room “s”. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
Photo courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26
Pompeii. October 2023. Room “r”, looking towards east wall with niche. Photo
courtesy of Johannes Eber.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “r”, east wall with niche in exedra.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “r”, rectangular niche in east wall of exedra.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “r”, east wall under niche.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “r”, south wall with doorway to room “t”. Photo by Hans Thorwid.
Photo courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room “r”, looking south through doorway to room “t” in south-east corner of peristyle.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “t”, north wall with doorway into room “r”.
“Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo by Hans Thorwid.
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. Room “t”, north wall. Painting of Hermaphrodite with Silenus playing a drum.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 111213.
V.1.26 Pompeii. Room “t”, north wall. Drawing by G. Discanno of painting of Hermaphrodite and Silenus.
DAIR 83.21. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
Original painting now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 111213.
See
Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei:
Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 616 and 618, no. 89.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “t”, east wall.
“Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo by Hans Thorwid.
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. Room “t”, east wall painting of Narcissus.
According to Niccolini –
Tav. XXVI. Another painting was found facing that already
described (Tav. XXIV) in the triclinium in the house in Reg. V. Insula 1. It shows Narcissus ……..
See Niccolini F,
1862. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei:
Volume Secondo. Napoli, Tav. XXVI.
See Mau, Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), 1876, p.230, no.34.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture
murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. No. 589, room in the extreme south of the east side of
the peristyle. Quite wasted away.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “t”, south wall.
“Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo by Hans Thorwid.
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “t”, east wall, on left, south-east corner, and south wall.
According to Mau –
No. 33 (page 229), painting of Hermaphrodite and Silenus on north wall (wall with entrance doorway).
No. 34 (page 230), left (east) wall, painting of Narcissus.
No. 35 (page 230), in the middle of the facing (south) wall, Mars and Venus.
See Mau in Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1876,
(p. 229-230).
According to Niccolini –
“On the east side of the peristyle, that is facing towards the entrance, is situated an exedra between two cubicula, preceded by a small vestibule.
The cubiculum on the right was decorated with paintings of Mars and Venus, of Narcissus, and of Bacchus and Silenus.
In this peristyle, at the height of the floor above, the most important epigraphic discovery of its time, took place between the 3rd and 5th July 1875, the finding of the wax tablets”.
See Niccolini, F., 1890. Le Case ed i
Monumenti, Vol. 3. Napoli, (La Casa del Banchiere L. Cecilio Giocondo,
(p.3)).
See Niccolini, F., 1862. Le Case ed i Monumenti, Vol. 2. Napoli, (Descrizione Generale, Tav. XXIV, and Tav. XXVI below).
![V.1.26 Pompeii. Room "t", south wall painting of Mars and Venus.
According to Niccolini –
this was the painting from the south wall, which was found 10th July 1873, facing Tav. XXVI [Narcissus] in a triclinium.
According to Niccolini –
“This painting shows Venus contentedly embracing Mars, which suggests that he is in the act of leaving her as Cupid upright in the air, offers him his helmet.
The action was seen at the foot of a cliff, where was also seen a dog, a symbol of loyalty.”
See Niccolini, F. Le Case ed i Monumenti di Pompei. 1862. Book 2. Napoli, Descrizione Generale, Tav. XXIV.](5%2001%2026%20p9_files/image042.jpg)
V.1.26
Pompeii. Room “t”, south
wall painting of Mars and Venus.
According
to Niccolini –
this
was the painting from the south wall, which was found 10th July 1873, facing
Tav. XXVI [Narcissus] in a triclinium.
According
to Niccolini –
“This
painting shows Venus contentedly embracing Mars, which suggests that he is in
the act of leaving her as Cupid upright in the air, offers him his helmet. The
action was seen at the foot of a cliff, where was also seen a dog, a symbol of
loyalty.”
See Niccolini, F. Le Case ed i Monumenti di Pompei. 1862. Book 2.
Napoli, Descrizione Generale, Tav. XXIV.
According to Mau –
from the middle of the rear wall, height 0.43, length 0.42; Mars and Venus (with two Cupids but no dog) –
Description of Mars, with helmet and Venus, then ………
“Behind the described group you can see a large quadrangular base – on the right stands a Cupid, the right leg crossed above the left, the right elbow resting on the shield of Mars, while the same hand holds the spear, the right hand on his hip. Another Cupid stands in the foreground on the left of Venus, presenting her with an open box.”
See Mau in Bullettino
dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1876, (p.230,
no.35).
The same description, as above by Mau, is given by Sogliano.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (No.138, from room south-east of peristyle).
According to PPM –
V.1.23/26, room t, south wall. Mars with helmet on, sitting next to Venus, with a Cupid on either side, the one on the left with an open box for Venus, the one on the right holding a spear. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 111214
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 618, no.91.
(These 3 descriptions would appear to be identical, but do not agree with the description of the painting by Niccolini above.)
V.1.23/26, Room “t”, south wall.
Mars with helmet on, sitting next to Venus, with a Cupid on either side.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 111214.
See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 618, no.91.
There was another painting of Mars and Venus, from the Fourth room on the north side of the peristyle.
According to Sogliano –
“This painting showed Mars and Venus sitting next to each other.
Venus on the left, raises her right arm above her head so that her hand is almost above her left shoulder, and holds a kind of green ribbon between her fingers. Of Mars only the head seen with a helmet was preserved, and the right hand that passing behind the back of Aphrodite was in the act of removing the peacock robe from the parts still covered of the goddess.
See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: Giannini. (no.133).
The same description by Mau of the painting of Mars and Venus “in the cubiculum whose doorway was the 4th on the north side of the peristyle”, but no mention of a painting of Narcissus in this room.
See Mau, Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), 1876, (p.229, no.27).
V.1.26 Pompeii. 2012. Room “t”, west wall with window overlooking peristyle.
“Restored parts of the wall photographed and merge with the lower part and floor line of earlier photos of 2005-07.”
Photo by Hans Thorwid.
Photo and words courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room “t”, west wall with window overlooking peristyle/garden.
V.1.26 Pompeii. 1972.
Room L, peristyle garden, looking towards south-east corner with window to room
“t”.
The south wall
of the garden would have contained a painted hunt scene in the arched centre
panel, and a garden scene on either side.
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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V.1.26
Pompeii. 2012? Room L, south wall of peristyle garden. Photo
by Hans Thorwid.
Photo courtesy of The Swedish Pompeii Project.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, garden peristyle looking west.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, south wall of garden peristyle, which used to be decorated with a large animal painting in the centre.
Nothing now survives, other than a description by Mau.
See Mau, Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza
Archeologica (DAIR), 1876, p.231-232.
A garden painting was on either side.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, peristyle garden looking west through tablinum to the atrium.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, looking north-west across peristyle garden.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, looking west along north side of garden wall, under north portico.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, marble basin on north side of peristyle, looking north-west.
V.1.26 Pompeii. March 2009. Room L, marble basin.