VI.2.4 Pompeii.
Casa di Sallustio or House of Sallust or Domus A. Cossius Libanus.
Quick Outline
This page has been created to give an appreciation of the main rooms and areas of the interesting House of Sallust.
Detail
If you are then interested to see the house in more detail, the rooms are shown in greater detail in the subsequent parts.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, on right. April 2019.
Looking north on Via Consolare, between VI.17.26/5, on left and VI.2.2, on
right.
The House of Sallust doorways can be seen on
the right, numbered VI.2.3/4/5. Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, in centre. January 2017. Looking east to entrance doorways, with VI.2.5, on left, and VI.2.3, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Layout of house as shown in cork model in Naples Museum.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. April 2019.
Looking east across atrium and impluvium from entrance corridor. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking east across impluvium in atrium towards tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west from rear of atrium across impluvium towards entrance, centre.
The doorway to VI.2.3 is on the left of it, and to VI.2.5 is on the right of it. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking east along north side of atrium from near VI.2.5.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking east along south side of atrium from near VI.2.3.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, December 2017. Looking towards rooms on north side of atrium.
The doorway on the left leads to the anteroom of the winter triclinium. Next to it are two cubicula, and then the north ala.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking north-east across atrium towards the north ala and tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017.
Looking towards west side of north ala, with capital at top of pilaster.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Capital on west side of north ala.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Upper west wall and north-west corner in north ala.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking towards north wall of rear room behind north ala.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Upper east wall of ala, with site of lararium, on right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. East wall of ala/atrium with site of lararium painting.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, January 2017. Looking towards north wall of tablinum, from atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper north wall of tablinum, with doorway to oecus at east end.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, January 2017. Looking towards east wall of tablinum, with view onto portico and garden area.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, December 2017.
Looking towards south wall of tablinum from atrium, with doorway on right leading to portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, December 2017.
Looking east towards corridor on south side of tablinum in south ala, leading to garden area.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Plaque on east wall of south ala. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to Anne Laidlaw, the plaque, perhaps erected by Olga Elia, commemorates the temporary repairs made in 1943-44 under the auspices of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Historic Monuments in War Areas (also called the (second) Roberts Commission).
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking through doorway in east wall of south ala.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, December 2017.
Looking across atrium towards south ala, with doorway to garden area, on left.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii.
December 2017. Looking north along portico of garden area.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
It should be noted that the house roof, the portico
behind the main house and the south garden apartments are nearly all modern
reconstructions.
These were made in 1970-71, following many years of
abandonment and ruin.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006.
Danni
di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p.66-74).
See Laidlaw, A., 1985. The First Style in Pompeii: painting and architecture. Rome.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking north along west side of portico, with window into tablinum, and doorway to oecus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking south along portico, with doorway to oecus and window to tablinum, centre and right.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking south along garden portico towards kitchen room. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017.
Looking east across summer triclinium at north end of portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May 2010.
Looking north to summer triclinium with painted north wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking south across garden, from garden summer triclinium. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017.
Looking north-west towards oecus of north side of tablinum, from portico.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. South wall of oecus, with doorway into tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking west into oecus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. North wall of oecus.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking west from portico towards area on north side of oecus, near summer triclinium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking west from summer triclinium, along north side of house. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii, December 2017. Returning from the portico area through doorway, on left, into the south side of the atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010.
Looking across atrium, from north ala to south ala, and room with doorway through to garden apartments, on right.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking south-east across small garden area on south side.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. Between
1823 and 1828, plan drawn by F. Duban, showing garden area.
The kitchen area is to
the west, on the left, the large triclinium is to the west, on the right.
The two diaeta/cubicula
and the painting of Diana and Actaeon would have been at the top, and the
doorway from the house is in the north wall, on the lower side.
See Duban F. Album de dessins d'architecture
effectués par Félix Duban pendant son pensionnat à la Villa Medicis, entre 1823
et 1828:
Tome 2, Pompéi, pl. 35.
INHA Identifiant numérique NUM PC 40425 (2)
https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/7157 « Licence Ouverte
/ Open Licence »
Etalab
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010.
Doorway into triclinium/exedra, on left, and doorway to small corridor, linking main house with garden apartments, in centre.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south-west across small garden. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010. South-west corner of garden apartment. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking south into doorway to diaeta.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking towards south wall of diaeta.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking towards upper south wall, south-west corner and west wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019.
Painting of Ares and Aphrodite/Mars and Venus, from south wall of cubiculum in the south-west corner of small garden.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Central panel of south wall with faded remains of fresco of Paris and Elena.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. West wall.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking towards lower north-west corner and flooring.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking south across flooring of opus sectile.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
According to Laidlaw –
“This room (Diaeta 34)
was badly damaged by the bomb; when the debris was cleared at the end of the
war, the left (East) and entrance (North) walls were partly rebuilt, and the
room reroofed. The pavement in opus sectile, which the blast had shattered, was
restored approximately in the pattern of the original, with the missing parts
filled in with cement or stray pieces found in the debris.”
See Laidlaw, A., and
Stella M. S., 2014. The House of Sallust in Pompeii (VI.2.4): JRA 98. Portsmouth Rhode Island.
(p.111).
See
Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei:
Pitture e Mosaici. IV.
Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.
136-7, figs 84a, and 84b.)
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May
2006. Looking west along south side of small garden.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May
2006. South wall of small garden with large painting of Acteon and Diana.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. May
2006. Wall painting of Acteon on south wall of small garden.
On the right is a nymph
in guise of a statue holding a fountain bowl in her hand.
See
Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p.70, T:121).
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June
2010. Looking south-east across the garden apartment towards cubiculum. Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June
2010. Doorway to cubiculum in south-east corner of garden apartment. Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
It should be noted that,
apart from the west side, the house was entirely destroyed by the bombing
during the night of 14/15th September 1943.
According to Laidlaw,
the roof, the south apartment, and the portico behind the main house block are
almost completely modern reconstructions made in 1970-71.
See
Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p. 66-74)
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking towards window in west wall of cubiculum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. March 2019. Looking south across floor mosaic in cubiculum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. December 2017. Looking east across small garden area on south side.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010.
Looking east along portico towards kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.2.31 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking west towards small garden across the kitchen area.
VI.2.4 Pompeii. June 2010.
Looking north along garden portico, from near remains of kitchen, on left. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.