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

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V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west side of peristyle in north-west corner. Painting 5 – Animal painting showing a boar being attacked by two dogs. One dog was attacking him from the front, the other leaping onto him from behind. In the background, another dog was attacking a deer. See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.349, number 5.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west side of peristyle in north-west corner.

Painting 5 – Animal painting showing a boar being attacked by two dogs.

One dog was attacking him from the front, the other leaping onto him from behind. In the background, another dog was attacking a deer.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.349, number 5.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7. Peristyle. Painting 5.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7. Peristyle. Painting 5. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7. Peristyle. Painting 5. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7. Peristyle. Paintings 4 and 5 in north west corner.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, paintings 4 and 5 in north-west corner of the peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2012. Room 7, looking south-east across peristyle area, from rear of west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west side puteal, at beginning of wall at south end of peristyle.d.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west side puteal, at beginning of west wall to south end of peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1957. Room 7, Looking south along west side, with puteal. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1957. Room 7, Looking south along west side, with puteal. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, painting on west side of peristyle –
Painting 6 - Animal painting showing to the right, a bear standing on his rear legs eating the fruits from a tree. Then to the right, near a bridge, a statue of Priapus near to which was a round altar. On the left, a deer being pursued by a dog. See Not. Scavi, 1899, p.349, number 4.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, painting on west side of peristyle –

Painting 6 - Animal painting showing to the right, a bear standing on his rear legs eating the fruits from a tree.

Then to the right, near a bridge, a statue of Priapus near to which was a round altar.

On the left, a deer being pursued by a dog.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.349, number 4.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7. Peristyle. Painting 6.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 6.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 6. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 6. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle, detail of Painting 6. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle, detail of Painting 6. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 6, detail of bear eating fruit from tree.
Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 6, detail of bear eating fruit from tree.

Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, peristyle. Animal paintings - west side of peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, animal paintings - west side of peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 7 - animal painting of boar being attacked by four dogs, on west side of peristyle. See Not. Scavi, 1899, p.349, number 3.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 7 - animal painting of boar being attacked by four dogs, on west side of peristyle.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.349, number 3.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 7 - animal painting of boar being attacked by four dogs, on west side of peristyle.

Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle.

Painting 7 – detail from animal painting of boar being attacked by four dogs, on west side of peristyle. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, peristyle - Painting 7.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle – detail from Painting 7. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle – detail from Painting 7. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 7.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 8 - animal painting showing lion with two dogs, from south end of west side of peristyle. One dog is attacking the lion from the front, the other biting its tail from behind.
In the background, a deer being pursued by a dog. See Not. Scavi, 1899, p.349, number 2.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, peristyle.

Painting 8 - animal painting showing lion with two dogs, from south end of west side of peristyle.

One dog is attacking the lion from the front, the other biting its tail from behind.

In the background, a deer being pursued by a dog.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.349, number 2.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 8.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 8. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Painting 8. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south corner of west side of peristyle.
The painting showed a boar being attacked by a dog. In the background a deer to the left, and a deer to the right, both fleeing. Also to the right, a bear on his rear legs being attacked by two dogs. In the background, another deer fleeing. See Not. Scavi, 1899, p.348, number 1.

V.5.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south corner of west side of peristyle.

The painting showed a boar being attacked by a dog. In the background a deer to the left, and a deer to the right, both fleeing.

Also to the right, a bear on his rear legs being attacked by two dogs. In the background, another deer fleeing.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1899, p.348, number 1.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 7, peristyle. South corner of west side of peristyle.

V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. South corner of west side of peristyle. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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V.5.3 Pompeii. 1968. Room 7, peristyle. Detail from south corner of west side of peristyle.

Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

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V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2012. Room 7, peristyle. Looking north-west along south corner of west side of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

V.5.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking across the south-east corner with the peristyle at rear, taken from above the Via di Nola.

V.5.a Pompeii. May 2005. Looking in to V.5.3. Un-numbered rear entrance from Vicolo dei Gladiatori, (it is unnumbered on the Eschebach plans). According to Van der Poel, it was numbered as V.5.a. This posticum, together with the stables were destroyed when it was bombed in 1943. See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.80).

V.5.a Pompeii. May 2005. Looking in to V.5.3.

Un-numbered rear entrance from Vicolo dei Gladiatori, (it is unnumbered on the Eschebach plans).

According to Van der Poel, it was numbered as V.5.a.

This posticum, together with the stables were destroyed when it was bombed in 1943.

See Van der Poel, H. B., 1986. Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, Part IIIA. Austin: University of Texas. (p.80).

V.5.a Pompeii. May 2017. Looking south-east from Vicolo dei Gladiatori towards peristyle area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

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