V.4.3 Pompeii. House. Casa di un
Flamine.
Excavated 1842 and 1899.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to triclinium on east side of atrium, with small room or cupboard. Looking east.
According to Boyce, items were found among the ruins of two cupboards in the room to the east of the atrium.
Together with a hoard of 130 silver and 54 bronze coins, also found were three bronze statuettes of the household gods.
The Genius, and two Lares each holding cornucopia and patera and standing solidly on two feet.
A marble statuette of Venus Anadyomene and a small marble altar may also have belonged to the shrine.
He quoted Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899,
(206).
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus
of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome:
MAAR 14. (p.40, no.118, note 1).
See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (p.240)
According to Sogliano, these were found in the room that opens on the east side of the atrium on 9th May 1899.
They are listed
in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità,
1899, pp. 203-208.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall of triclinium, and doorway to cupboard or small room.
According to Sogliano, each wall of this room was painted with a white background. All walls had a central painting.
On the south wall was a painting of Ariadne being found in Naxos by Dionysus, see below.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to cupboard or small room, in south wall of triclinium.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking south into cupboard or small room.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall and south-east corner of triclinium.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of wall painting of Ariadne and Dionysus, in centre of south wall of triclinium.
V.4.3 Pompeii. 1899. Triclinium. Painting of Ariadne and Dionysus.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899,
(p. 342).
Kuivalainen describes –
“A composition of three figures (in the damaged condition of the painting) on a blue background.
In the foreground, a sleeping female figure reclines to the left; she wears a yellow cloak, which covers only her legs. On the left is (the head of) a youth wearing a vine wreath on his head. On the right there is a satyr with a pine wreath uncovering the sleeping woman.”
Kuivalainen comments –
“Bacchus discovers sleeping Ariadne, who is already dressed in a yellow robe suitable for brides. He is probably alone, except for the satyr on the other side of the picture. The vine-leaves, if not the korymboi, on his wreath are quite well grown.”
See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (p.142, E2).
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Detail of wall painting on south wall of triclinium.
V.4.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Detail of wall painting of Ariadne and Dionysus.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Remains of painted decoration on south wall.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. South wall in south-east corner. Remains of painted medallion.
According to Sogliano, the medallions on the south wall, (diam. 0.36m), showed a griffin on a white background.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899,
(p.311-2)
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Floor in south-east corner of triclinium.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of triclinium.
According to Sogliano, on this wall was a painting of Narcissus with a small female figure on his left under a cliff.
When found this painting was badly preserved.
In the side panels were medallions, diam.0.36m.
Those on the east wall were on a red background, and each contained a cupid with various attributes.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899,
(p.311-2)
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of triclinium.
According to Sogliano, rather than a painting of Europa on the bull, he thought he recognised a Nereid on a sea-bull, but this had nearly faded.
In the side panels would have been medallions, those on the north and south walls showed a griffin on a white background.
See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899,
(p.311-2)
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. North wall of atrium, and corridor to rear.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. West wall of andron or corridor to rear.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. East wall of andron or corridor to rear.
V.4.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Site of staircase to upper floor, on west side of corridor to rear.
Looking north to doorway at end of corridor towards south portico and garden area.