VI.5.2 Pompeii. Shop. Linked to VI.5.1, VI.5.3, VI.5.22.

Excavated 1843. Bombed 1943.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance doorway. 

VI.5.2 Pompeii, in centre. December 2018. Looking east towards doorways, with VI.5.1, on left. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. May 2011. Entrance doorways. The doorway to VI.5.2 is on the right.

VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. Painting made by Giuseppe Marsigli, 10th September 1835 showing the torture of Psyche.

According to Helbig, this painting had been destroyed, (see Helbig 854) but now in Oxford Ashmolean Museum.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 134.

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VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. Painting made by Giuseppe Marsigli, in pencil/crayon/chalk with watercolours, showing Phaedra, Hippolytus and the nurse.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 135.

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This painting was also listed as destroyed by Helbig, See Helbig 1246, but is now in the British Museum.

See Carratelli, G. P., 2003. Pompei: La documentazione nell'Opera di disegnatori e pittori dei secoli XVIII e XIX. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 227-8 no. 124.

The British Museum web site describes a painting which corresponds in its description but is without a photo as yet. BM Registration number 1857,0415.4.

Sir William Temple, British minister in Naples, bequeathed a major collection to the Museum in 1856 of which it was a part.

VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. Pen and ink drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, 1835, of the above painting showing Phaedra, Hippolytus and the nurse.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 136.

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VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. Pen and ink drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, 1835, of the painting showing sacrifice of Iphigenia.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 137.

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Helbig describes the painting as:

“In the middle stands Iphigenia, laurel-wreathed, in green chiton with a purple margin, with her left hand raised to the mouth, it seems resigned in her fate, in front of her the bearded, laurel wreathed Calchas in red chiton with blue lining, in act of starting the sacrifice, cutting off a lock of the maiden’s hair with the sword.
Behind Iphigenia sits Agamemnon on a chair, bent forward, sunk in deep sorrow, beardless, wrapped in a cloak drawn over the back of the head, in the left hand a spear, supporting the head with the right hand. Next to him is a temple-like building, on which stands a winged statue with flying chlamys.”

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1305.

VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. Painting made by Giuseppe Marsigli in pencil/crayon/chalk with watercolours, showing sacrifice of Iphigenia.

This painting is shown reversed from that on the ICCD site and shown as it is in Disegnatori which has the note “montata a rovescio” (mounted backward) and with the writing “sul rovescio del foglio” (on the reverse of the sheet).

ADS 137 and ADS 138 are both dated 1935 and described as a house recently uncovered “propriamente nel secondo Vicolo entrando dalla parte dei Sepolcri”. They would therefore indicate the same house and the same painting.

See Carratelli, G. P., 2003. Pompei: La documentazione nell'Opera di disegnatori e pittori dei secoli XVIII e XIX. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, p. 227 no. 126.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 138.

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The original painting is also now in the Naples Archaeological Museum.

VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii.

Two drawings by Zahn, July 1835, of the paintings showing Phaedra, Hippolytus and the nurse and the sacrifice of Iphigenia.

Three paintings (two above and one below) were discovered in a room of a small house very close to the city wall, in the vicolo which was to the left of the House of Pansa, between the House of Sallust and the House of Modesto which leads to this city wall. According to Zahn they were in the Royal Museum at Naples.

See Zahn, W., 1842. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, Taf. 61.

Helbig refers to Zahn’s drawing in his description of the Iphigenia painting (Helbig 1305).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

VI.5.1 and VI.5.2 Pompeii. July 1835. Drawing by Zahn of the torment of Psyche.

According to Zahn, all three of these paintings were found on the walls of the same room, with a black background.

See Zahn, W., 1842-44. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: II. Berlin: Reimer, taf. 62.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south in shop-room, with entrance doorway, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. May 2011. Hearth in south-east corner.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Hearth in south-east corner.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south to hearth.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains in south-west corner, opposite hearth.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. December 2007. North-west corner of room, with remains of steps to upper floor at doorway VI.5.1, looking north.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Doorway looking east, past various rooms towards garden of VI.5.3.

VI.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east.

According to Fiorelli, this shop had a hearth at the rear, together with a passage to the garden of the neighbouring house.

It also had various rooms for the dwelling, or for the use of its industry. 

Whatever that was, it cannot now be known with certainty, being as this structure was entirely destroyed.

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.53)

VI.5.2 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east through to garden of VI.5.3. 

Looking south-east from Tower XII across VI.5.2 and 3, Pompeii. December 2007.