VI.4.3 Pompeii. Shop entrance of caupona.
Linked to VI.4.4. Excavated 1807. Bombed in 1943.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking
south-west to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking towards south wall with doorway
linking to VI.4.4, from entrance doorway on Via Consolare. Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2004. Looking west from entrance, across counter and towards linking doorway to VI.4.4.
According to Boyce, in the west wall of the room with the counter were the ruins of a niche.
Its walls were coated with white stucco and decorated with coloured spots.
Its floor was a projecting tile.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p. 45, no. 150).
According to Garcia y Garcia due to the bombing, the niche to the west of the thermopolium has sadly disappeared.
Also lost was the recess, perhaps for a bed in the south-east of the small rear room.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 75).
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south-east
across counter towards entrance doorway, on left, and linking doorway to
VI.4.4, on right. Photo
courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. May 2003.
Looking south-east across counter towards entrance doorway, on left, and linking doorway to VI.4.4, on right. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Niche in south wall near
entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of niche in south
wall near entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. October 2020. Looking
across counter to rear room. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.4.3 Pompeii. December 2004. Three-sided marble counter.