V.2.15 Pompeii. Casa di Orione. Casa con mosaico groma. Casa dell’agrimensore?

House of Orion. House with groma mosaic. House of the surveyor?

Room Plan

V.2 Pompeii. Casa di Orione or House of Orion. Parco Archeologico di Pompei plan following the new excavations in 2018.

The rooms uncovered in 2018 are numbered A1-A20 based on the plan published by the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

Rooms A9, A20 and A1 are part of a separate house.

The room numbers are those referred to on the pompeiiinpictures pages for V.2 Casa di Orione.

Photo © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

This plan is to help you accurately locate the rooms shown in the photographs of this large house and find the exciting new discoveries.

Please be aware that the room numbers shown may differ from any other plans or records both published and unpublished.

V.2.Pompeii. Casa di Orione. October 2019. Revised plan showing mosaics and gromatic representations in the tablinum A7 and fauces A4.

The rooms in the lower left-hand corner, excavated in the 19th century, were previously believed to be part of V.2.15 the Casa di Giove.

See Osanna M., Magli G., Ferro L. October 2019. Gromatics illustrations from newly discovered pavements in Pompeii. Cornell University, fig. 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13145v1

Plan showing relationship between V.2.15 Casa di Giove and Casa di Orione.

Rooms 11a to 11e were identified by Mau in 1895 as belonging to V.2.15 the Casa di Giove.

Following the recent excavations they are now considered part of the Casa di Orione.

Rooms A1, A20 and A9 are part of a separate house adjacent to the Casa di Orione.