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

or Domus L. Albucius Celsus.

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V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Room 1, west side of atrium, looking north from west ala 8. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

West ala 8, looking south-west. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Room 1, south-west corner of atrium with doorway to west ala 8. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, ala on west side of atrium.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Room 8, looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Room 8, north wall with painted candelabra. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Room 8, north wall with painted candelabra. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Room 8, detail from centre of middle panel on north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, painted plaster on north wall of ala on west side of atrium. 

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Room 8, south-west corner of west ala. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Room 8, south wall with doorway into room 9. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Room 8, south wall with doorway into room 9. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, ala. Painted plaster on south wall at the side of doorway to room 9.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 1, looking south-west across the impluvium to west wall of atrium, on right.

The doorway to corridor 10 is on the left with doorway to room 9 in south wall of ala 8, behind column.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Doorway into room 9, from south wall of room 8. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 9, looking south.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, east wall.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, east wall, painting of pygmies with two ibis, at north end.

The red zoccolo was hardly preserved, but would have had panels with plants in compartments, then a yellow frieze.

Above this was a predella with a white background painted with pygmies, which went all around the walls of the room.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, remains of wall painting on east wall. Painting of Hercules and Hesione with the young Priam.

See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wande Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter, (p.77).

V.2.i Pompeii. 1893. Room 9, remains of wall painting on east wall.

Sketch of painting of Hercules and Hesione with the young Priam.

See Mau, A., 1893. Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume VIII, (p. 42ff).

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, looking towards south wall, and south-west corner.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Room 9, looking through doorway towards south-west corner.

Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, wall painting of pygmies in predella of south end of west wall in south-west corner.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, remaining corner of a wall painting on west wall.

According to Mau, on the west wall only the lower corner was conserved.

He recognised that near to the right margin was the foot of a large chair.

To the left of this chair, possibly a sceptre and below, an eagle.

He thought, without doubt, this would have been Giove.

See Mau, A., 1893. Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume VIII. (p.46)

Sogliano thought, in NdS, that the remaining fragment of this painting on the west wall would have represented the child Hercules strangling the serpents in the presence of Zeus.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1896, (p.427).

V.2.i Pompeii. 1898. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani, showing west wall of (our) Room 9, described as “Ambiente 2” on photo.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.6255-1910.

(Note: in our photo of the south end of west wall, there is no central dog and the two figures on the left seem to have helmets and shields).

V.2.i, Pompeii. Painting by Geremia Discanno, 1893, of centre and north end of west wall of room 9.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 115.

Photo © ICCD. http://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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V.2.i Pompeii. May 2005. Room 9, wall painting of pygmies on west wall at north end.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 9, detail of wall painting of pygmies with ibis on west wall at north end.

V.2.i Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Drawing of south end of impluvium, looking through tablinum to peristyle.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 500.

V.2.i Pompeii. c.1892. Looking south from atrium across tablinum, room 7, into peristyle. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, looking south from atrium across tablinum onto peristyle. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, tablinum, looking south into peristyle.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Tablinum 7 on south side of atrium, looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

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.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, looking towards east wall of tablinum from atrium.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023. Looking towards east wall of tablinum. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, looking north along east wall, from north portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. October 2023. Tablinum 7, detail of painted panel on east wall at north end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Tablinum 7, painted panels in predella on east wall at north end. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, painted panel in predella on east wall at north end, with black background. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, detail of painted panel in predella on east wall at north end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, detail of painted panel in predella on east wall, under yellow central panel. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, detail from east wall on south side of central yellow panel. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. 1898. Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani, showing detail of painted decoration on zoccolo of walls in tablinum.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.6251-1910.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Room 1, looking north across atrium with compluvium, from room 7, tablinum. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. March 2023.

Room 1, looking north across atrium with compluvium, from room 7, tablinum. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, looking north across atrium with compluvium, from room 7, tablinum.

V.2.i Pompeii. October 2023. Tablinum 7, looking across tablinum from atrium towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Tablinum 7, with waterspout on display against west wall. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, waterspout on display against west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Tablinum 7, looking south along west wall from atrium. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, looking along west wall from north portico. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023. Tablinum 7, detail of painted zoccolo on lower west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, detail from predella at south end of west wall below red side panel. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Tablinum 7, looking south along zoccolo on lower west wall. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, detail from zoccolo with black panel on lower south end of west wall.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, detail from zoccolo with yellow panel on lower south end of west wall.

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii.  October 2023.

Tablinum 7, detail of painted zoccolo on red central panel of lower west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023. Tablinum 7, detail from north end of zoccolo on lower west wall. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

V.2.i Pompeii. December 2023.

Looking north-east across atrium from south-west corner near west ala 8. Photo courtesy of Miriam Colomer.

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