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. Doorway to room 20, on south side of entrance corridor. 

According to Helbig, paintings found in this room were Theseus & Ariadne (1212),

Apollo & Artemis (200), Floating girls (1903, 17, 33, 49)

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1212, 200, etc)

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, west wall with remains of wall painting and niche. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, detail of faded painting from west wall showing Apollo & Artemis.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (200).

VI.5.3 Pompeii. 12th March 2014. Room 20, painting from west wall showing Apollo & Artemis.

Thieves had chipped off a 20cm-wide section of fresco, the part depicting the goddess Artemis.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. 1844. Room 20, copy by G. Abbate of painting from west wall showing Apollo & Artemis.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 141.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, niche in west wall. 

According to Boyce, in the room opening off the south-west corner of the atrium, in the west wall opposite the entrance door, is an arched niche.

This is set high up in the wall.

Its interior walls were painted with green plants on a white background. 

The niche is made to stand out from the decoration of the walls of the room, for it is set across the line which divides the lower panels, which are alternating red and yellow, from the upper register, which is white.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14, p. 46, no.152.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 20, detail of painted plaster in niche on west wall, with white background and green painted plants. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii.  December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster on south wall. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii.  December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster on east wall. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 20, detail of painted plaster from north wall. 

VI.5.3 Pompeii. 1879. Painting by Sydney Vacher, from “House near the Herculaneum Gate”.

He described this as “A cornice, Pompeii.

This has been frequently published but always has been spoilt. This is an attempt to give the hawk masks full view.”

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.4428-1910.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. c.1877.

Paintings from cornices in the house - the lower one, as seen above and below in Room 20.

The top two decorations surround the brown and yellow compartments of the walls of the atrium. 

See Steeger V., 1877. Le più belle pareti di Pompei. Torino: Loescher. Fasc. II, Tav. VII.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. Painting by Geremia Discanno of part of north wall of cubiculum, room 20.

See Presuhn E., 1878. Les Decorations Murales de Pompei, Weigel, Leipzig, Tav. unnumbered.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. Painting by Vittorio Steeger of part of north wall of cubiculum, room 20.

See Steeger V., 1877. Le più belle pareti di Pompei. Torino: Loescher. Fasc. II, Tav.VI.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. Room 20.

Drawing by Antonio Ala, 1844, of IV Style decorated north wall, with central painting showing Arianna and Theseus.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 143.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. Room 20.

Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1844, of painting of Arianna giving the thread to Theseus, painting now faded and more or less disappeared.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 142.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, of two vignettes of cupids, now disappeared.

According to the description by Avellino (BAN 1844), it is probable that these two vignettes come (respectively) from Rooms 20 and 1

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 155.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1844, floating figure, see no.1917 as described by Helbig.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 144.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1844, floating figure with lyre, see no. 1933 as described by Helbig.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 145.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1844, floating female figure, see no. 1903 as described by Helbig.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 146.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1844, floating female figure, not listed by Helbig, but attributed to this room by Avellino’s description (BAN 1844).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 147.

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VI..5.3 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1844, floating female figure with a child in arms, see no.1949 as described by Helbig.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 148.

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VI.5.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Decorative floor in Room 20.

VI.5.3 Pompeii. c.1930.

Room 20, the flooring shows the coloured marble tiles interrupting the decoration of white tesserae.

DAIR 41.762. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See Pernice, E.  1938. Pavimente und Figürliche Mosaiken: Die Hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji, Band VI. Berlin: de Gruyter, (taf. 47,2).

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