V.5.3 Pompeii. Casa dei Gladiatori or House of the Gladiators.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, large triclinium in north-west corner of peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking west towards rooms 13 and 14.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, west wall of triclinium.

V.5.3 Pompeii but shown as V.5.2 on photo. Pre-1937-39.

Room 13, looking west towards north-west corner.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1805.

V.5.3 Pompeii, c.1930. Room 13, triclinium, looking west across flooring.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.48, & Pl.9, tav.4).

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, north-west corner of triclinium.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall of triclinium.

V.5.3 Pompeii. Decorated wall from the triclinium. See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.355 fig. 15.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, south wall of triclinium, with doorway in south-west corner to room 14.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, doorway into room 14, cubiculum.

V.5.3 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 13, looking south across doorway threshold from triclinium into cubiculum.

DAIR 41.663. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E.  1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, (taf. 25,3.)

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, west wall.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, upper west wall

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, south wall

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, south-east corner.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, looking east towards east wall.

V.5.3 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 14, looking across flooring towards east wall of cubiculum.

Black and white mosaic with polychrome tesserae, the central emblema consists of a rose inserted into a star, delimited by four polychrome diamonds set into a square, within a black border with braid design.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.76,118 & Pl.42, tav.2)

V.5.3 Pompeii. Room 14, north-east corner showing painted wall decoration upon excavation.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.356 fig. 16.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, zoccolo on north wall.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, north wall with painted plants, and corridor to room 13.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 13, looking east across triclinium, towards peristyle area.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, looking east across north side of peristyle.

This area was badly hit by the bombing on the night of 16th September 1943, two bombs fell on the northern section of the peristyle.

Four columns and three plutei of the north portico were destroyed.

Also destroyed were the perimeter wall towards the north, and the stables accessible from Vicolo dei Gladiatori in the north-west.

See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.63-65).

V.5.3 Pompeii. c.1930’s? Looking west across peristyle.

The area of the north portico and rooms in north-west, on the right, were destroyed by the bombing of September 1943.

Photograph by Brunner & Co., Como, numbered 24-116.

Photo courtesy of Espen B. Andersson.

V.5.3 Pompeii but shown as V.5.2 on photo. Pre-1937-39. Looking north-west across north side of peristyle.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1806.

V.5.3 Pompeii but shown as V.5.2 on photo. Pre-1937-39. Looking north on west side of peristyle.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1804.

V.5.3 Pompeii. September 2004. Room 7, north-east side of peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. September 2004. Room 7, north-east corner of peristyle.

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