V.2.1 Pompeii. Casa della Regina Margherita or House of Queen Margherita.

Back entrance at V.2.a.

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V.2.1 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north to garden area, with doorway to room 15, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.1 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking north to west side of garden area.

V.2.1 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north to garden area. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.1 Pompeii. September 2021. Detail from garden area, looking north. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Garden area.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1037

V.2.1 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking north to east side of garden area, and doorway to room 15, on right.

V.2.1 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 14, garden area.

V.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, looking towards east wall through window in north wall overlooking garden area.

According to BdI, this room had a beautiful floor of white mosaic with a black stripe all around it and was decorated on the threshold.

Room “r”, the largest room in the house, painted in the last style.  

Above a black zoccolo/dado followed the large yellow compartments, minus those that formed the centres of the walls: the latter on the long walls were blue, on the short walls were red-cinnabar.

They are divided between them by the usual architectural perspectives with a white background.

The upper part was divided from the middle part by a stucco cornice with imprinted ornaments and colored white, red and turquoise.

The upper part contained the usual fantastic architecture with garlands, peacocks and some human figures.

The whole thing makes an effect not very pleasing for the large masses of colors too bright and contrasting with each other.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1885, p.163-164. (room “r”).

V.2.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, east wall.

V.2.1 Pompeii. C.1886. Room 15, painting by D’Amelio showing east wall.

See D’Amelio P., 1886. Dipinti Murali di Pompei. Naples: Richter. Pl. XVI.

V.2.1 Pompeii. 1959.

Room 15, painted panel from north end of east wall. 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.2.1 Pompeii. 1888.

Room 15, painting by Max Littmann of east wall, on north side of central painting.

Photo © Architekturmuseum der TU München; Bilddatei-Nr. tum930876. CC-BY-NC-ND

V.2.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, east wall. Wall painting of Narcissus between nymphs and cupids.

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern : Francke. (p.124)

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD.  (p. 56).

See Catalogue, 1989. Italienische Reise: Pompejanische Bilder in den deutschen archäologischen Sammlungen. Napoli: Bibliopolis. (p. 333-4 Fig 107).

See Mau in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1885, (p. 164-165)

V.2.1 Pompeii. Room 15, painting by G. Discanno of Narcissus between nymphs and cupids from east wall.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1885, p. 175 (room no “r”).

DAIR 83.42. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

V.2.1 Pompeii. 1959.

Room 15, painted panel from south end of east wall. 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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According to PPM –

On the east wall of triclinium “r”, at the south end, showing a glimpse through a window, from the top of which hangs an oscillum with garlands, and which was closed at the bottom by a brick masonry, shows a building with Ionic columns, perhaps a temple in front of which was a tree on which a bird flies.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 794, no. 33.

V.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, triclinium, looking south. On this wall was a painting of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD.  (p. 57).

V.2.1 Pompeii.

Room 15, (or Triclinium “r”) design by G. Discanno showing the remains of the fragment of the central painting of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus on the south (or rear) wall.

According to Mau in BdI -

Preserved in the lower part was the blonde head of the sleeping Ariadne, turned to the spectators on her left arm.

In the upper part, two local divinities can be seen.

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1885, p. 157, p. 165 no.13

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. III. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 796, no. 37.

DAIR 83.39. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

Kuivalainen describes –

“In the right corner, the head of a sleeping figure reclining towards the right, depicted almost frontally. Behind her are two male heads, the bearded one with a jar, both wearing wreaths with tendril-like attachments.”

Kuivalainen comments –

“Probably a young Bacchus with his thiasus, advancing towards a sleeping Ariadne.”

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.152, E15).

V.2.1 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, west wall and doorway to tablinum.

V.2.1 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, west wall. This wall had a painting of the Rage of Lycurgus.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p. 57).

Above the damaged central painting, Kuivalainen describes –

“a standing youth on a white background in an elaborate architectural setting. In his right hand he possibly holds a cantharus, from which he pours wine onto a now damaged panther at his feet. On his left arm, and possibly around his loins, he wears a reddish cloak, and carries a thyrsus with a bunch and a ribbon at the top in the same arm.”

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.110-11, C7).

V.2.1 Pompeii.

Room 15, (or Triclinium “r”) design by G. Discanno of fragment of painting on the west wall of the Rage of Lycurgus.

See Mau in Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), 1885, p. 157, p. 165 no.14.

DAIR 83.40. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

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