V.4.c Pompeii. House of M. Samellius Modestus or Casa degli Ori

1902-5 Excavation plan

V.4.c Pompeii. 1902 plan. House of M. Samellius Modestus or Casa degli Ori.

Key:

A: = Entrance fauces or andron (corridor)

B: = Tuscanic Atrium

C: = Anteroom

D: = Triclinium

E: = Ala

F: = Cubiculum or storeroom with traces of shelves

G: = Tablinum

H: = Cubiculum

I: = Cubiculum

J: = Andron (corridor)

K: = Small Garden with pluteus (low wall) and an ambulatory to north and west

L: = Triclinium with a travertine threshold

M: = Kitchen or rustic room

a: = Marble table with marble supports in the form of a leopard in atrium B

b: = Terracotta puteal over the mouth of the cistern in atrium B

c: = Site of wooden stairs in south west corner of atrium B

d: = Cistern mouth in garden K

e: = Arched niche in east wall of garden K

f: = Wooden closet in triclinium L

The room numbers and descriptions are those referred to on the pompeiiinpictures pages for V.4.c and are those used in the 1902-5 excavation plan and report.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichita, 1905, p. 129, fig.1.

This plan is to help you accurately locate the rooms shown in the photographs of this house. 

Please be aware that the room numbers shown may differ from any other plans or records both published and unpublished.