VI.5.3 Pompeii. Casa di Nettuno or House of Neptune.

Linked to VI.5.1, VI.5.2 and VI.5.22. Excavated 1843.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking west to room 4, cubiculum from room 3, north ala. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 4, south wall of cubiculum. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail from model in Naples Archaeological Museum. Looking south towards atrium.

According to Breton, the painting that gave its name to the house was found on the main wall of the atrium.

It was of Neptune armed with a trident. In other panels were paintings of swans, peacocks.

On the lower left would be our room 5 the triclinium with window, then our room 3 the north ala, room 4 the cubiculum, and other cubiculum room 2.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. 1956? Main wall of atrium.

According to Breton, the painting that gave its name to the house was found on the main wall of the atrium.

It was of Neptune armed with a trident. In other panels were paintings of swans, peacocks

DAIR 56.3250. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See https://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/916502

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east from room 3 north ala, into room 5 triclinium with window.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, north wall of triclinium with window onto garden. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 5, south-east corner of triclinium. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. c.1930. Room 5, looking across central emblema of flooring in triclinium, towards south-east corner.

See Blake, M., (1930). The pavements of the Roman Buildings of the Republic and Early Empire. Rome, MAAR, 8, (p.102,110,114, & Pl. 30, tav.3).

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east into room 5 from north-east corner of atrium. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south-east across room 6, tablinum. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south across atrium at table near impluvium.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Marble top table and impluvium in atrium. Looking west across atrium towards entrance corridor.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 6, north and east walls of tablinum. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, looking east along corridor on south side of tablinum. 

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.54)

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, looking east towards latrine against east wall, at end of corridor in kitchen area.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 7, steps in kitchen area. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway to room 8, on north side of kitchen area.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, with niche. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, niche in east wall.

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