V.4.2 Pompeii. Shop at front of house and bakery.

Linked to V.4.1.  Excavated 1841, 1890 and 1901.

V.4.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance on Via di Nola, looking north.

According to Boyce, a terracotta statuette of Minerva was found in this shop.

She was wearing a helmet, shield and aegis and holding a patera in her right hand.

The figure showed traces of its original colouring.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1889, 133,

See Bullettino dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (DAIR), xvi, 1901, 312.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.108, no.3).

V.4.2 Pompeii. June 2012. Looking north to shop area. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.4.2 Pompeii. June 2012. Looking west to doorway linking to V.4.1. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

V.4.2 Pompeii. October 2023.

Looking towards east wall from entrance doorway, and side doorway into V.4.3. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway in east wall from V.4.2 to entrance corridor of V.4.3.