VI.1.25 Pompeii. Casa del Salve
or House of Ione.
Rear entrance of VI.1.7. First excavated 1770.
Linked to VI.1.6,
VI.1.8, VI.1.24 and VI.1.26.
VI.1.25 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.
VI.1.25 Pompeii. Looking south across the cork model at Naples Museum.
VI.1.25/7 Pompeii. 1875 lithograph titled Casa delle Vestali. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
The lower mosaic is probably from the rear entrance at the House of Salve, part of the House of the Vestals.
The upper mosaic, although the card is entitled “Casa delle Vestali” may have come -
“as from room 3 of VI.17.9/10” (which is on the opposite side of the roadway from VI.1.7.)
See Poirot, P. A., 1826. Carnets de dessins de Pierre-Achille Poirot.
Tome 2 : Pompeia, pl. 73.
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VI.1.25
Pompeii. The central sketch is a watercolour drawing of a part of a mosaic in
the atrium of the House of Salve.
The
upper sketch appears to be a garland from the Pantheon (VII.9.7) which it said
had a black background.
See Lesueur, Jean-Baptiste Ciceron. Voyage
en Italie de Jean-Baptiste Ciceron Lesueur (1794-1883), pl. 46.
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VI.1.7/25, Pompeii.
pre-1808. Floor mosaic, numbered 41 in Gli Ornati.
According to Gli
Ornati 1838: –
No.41. Bello era il
pavimento riportato sotto questo numero.
Nel mezzo sembra
espresso un seno di mare con pesci guizzanti e mostri marini, chiuso dalle mura
di una Città turrita ai quattro angoli, e con quattro porte dischiuse in mezzo de'
quattro lati.
Alla parte esterna di
uno di questi leggesi in caratteri cubitali il
cordiale motto SALVE, motto che ha dato nome all’abitazione del Salve tanto
rinomata in Pompei, per essersi in quella il pavimento rinvenuto. Incisione del
Cesarano.
And in Gli ornati
delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell'antica Pompei incisi in rame: pt.2,
1808.
(Translation: “No.41. The floor, reported under this number, was
beautiful.
A sea scene seemed to be expressed in the middle, with darting fish and sea
monsters, closed by the walls of a turreted city at the four corners, and with four
doors opening in the middle of the four sides.
On the outside of one of these, the cordial motto SALVE could be read in
capital letters, the motto that gave its name to the House of Salve, so
renowned in Pompeii, in which the floor was found. Engraving by Cesarano.”)
According to Gardelli and Ariano –
“It is important to note, however, that it
is incorrectly reported in the 1838 edition of Gli Ornati that the SALVE
mosaic represented in the volume is
the one found in 1785 in the so-called Casa
del Salve (or Casa delle Vestali) in Pompeii, as the one shown is from Villa
Arianna, Stabia.”
“Once the large recomposed mosaic floor was
moved to the Real Museo in Naples, it was dismantled into many fragments that
were placed in
different rooms: the SALVE threshold was
inserted into the floor of room 46 on the ground floor of the building that
houses the current MANN,
maintaining its acquired trapezoidal shape;
the floor with the marine thiasos from Pompeii
was set in room 132 with a figure of a furnacator,
also
from the property of Julia Felix; and finally, the geometric patterned frame that
distinguished the first composition was subdivided into several parts
and inserted into another floor made up of
mosaics of different origins in room 140 of the current MANN.”
See Gardelli, P., and Ariano, C. Two lesser-known mosaic floors from the 18th Century excavations of Villa Arianna at Stabia. (p.139-142).
(Note:
This mosaic has also been entered into II.4.6, Pompeii).
![VI.1.25 Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832 sketch by Gell.
The lower sketch would appear to show a floor in the House of Salve, or with Salve on the floor.
The upper sketch is from VIII.3.8, the floor mosaic in the atrium.
See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl. 43.
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VI.1.25
Pompeii. Between 1819 and 1832 sketch by Gell.
The
lower sketch would appear to show a floor in the House of Salve, or with Salve
on the floor.
The
upper sketch is from VIII.3.8, the floor mosaic in the atrium.
See Gell, W. Pompeii unpublished [Dessins de
l'édition de 1832 donnant le résultat des fouilles post 1819 (?)] vol II, pl.
43.
Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de
l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet, Identifiant numérique Num
MS180 (2).
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VI.1.25/7
Pompeii. Sketch of mosaic floor
decoration. A mosaic showing a dolphin was also seen in the threshold of room
10.
See Debret F. (1777-1850), Piranesi F. (1758-1810), LaBrouste H.
(1801-1875). Voyage en Italie-De
Naples à Paestum, pl. 111.
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Outside wall between VI.1.25 and VI.1.26 in Vicolo di Narciso, Pompeii. September 2005.