VI.5.5 Pompeii. Casa
del Granduca Michele di Russia or Casa dei Vasi di vetro or House of the Glass
Vases.
Linked to VI.5.6, VI.5.21. Excavated 1837, 1844, 2005 to 2006, 2009 to 2010.
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VI.5.5 Pompeii.
September 2005. Entrance doorway.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Exterior wall to north of entrance.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway looking east.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance corridor, looking east to peristyle.
Since 2005, this house has been re-examined, and limited excavations have taken place below the 79AD level.
See http://www.fastionline.org/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_141&curcol=main_column .
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east across atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December
2007. Impluvium in atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking north-east
across atrium towards doorway to peristyle, from south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007.
Looking north-east across atrium, from south-west corner. There are no rooms on the north side of the atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south into ala on the south-east side of the atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway into cubiculum in the centre of south side of atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Cubiculum on the south-west side of the atrium.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Staircase on the west side of the atrium, next to entrance fauces.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. East wall of atrium with niche, looking towards peristyle.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking
towards east wall in atrium with niche, and doorway to peristyle, on left.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2018. Detail of niche in east wall
of atrium. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Niche in west wall of atrium.
According to Boyce, in a large room opening off the east side of the peristyle was “un larario”
He gave the reference Ann. Inst., x, 1838, 186.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.46, no.153)
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking east across peristyle, from atrium. There is no tablinum in this house.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south-east across peristyle, from west portico. See also VI.5.21.
According to Fiorelli, the garden area was enclosed by a portico on the west, north and east sides.
In the middle of the garden was a pergola supported by four small slender columns painted with leaves and scales.
According to Jashemski, on the south wall was a painted garden scene, divided into three panels by the half-columns.
Near this wall were three masonry pedestals, on which three statuettes were found on March 31st 1837.
The statuettes were described in PAH as showing –
Hercules (0.60m high without base) with a gnarled club, a lion skin and with the three apples of the Hesperides;
A Bacchus with a cup in one hand, a thyrsus in part missing, in the other hand, and a panther at his feet (0.71m high without the base);
A third, perhaps Flora, partly broken (0.77, high, without the base, if complete).
Schulz described one of the statuettes as Silenus (Bacchus?), identical to the one found in the House of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He says that all the statuettes were given to the Grand Duke Mikhail.
See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.125-6).
See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 334 (March 31, 1837).
See Fiorelli, G.,
1875. Descrizione di Pompei. Napoli, p.98.
See Schulz, in Annali dell’Instituto di corrispondenza
archeologica (DAIR), (1838), p.185-186, 191.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south-east from west portico towards south wall of peristyle.
Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of peristyle with half-columns.
VI.5.5 Pompeii but shown as VI.15.1 on photo. VI.15.1 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39.
South wall of peristyle with half-columns.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 427.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. South wall of peristyle with half columns.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. December 2007. Detail of stucco, and painted decoration below, from south wall of peristyle.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking south in peristyle.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. September 2005. Remains of painting from peristyle.
Painted base of one of the four slender columns which supported a small pergola in the middle of the garden.
The bases of the thin columns were painted as to show leaves and scales divided-in-half, as described by Schultz.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 019.
VI.5.5 Pompeii. pre-1937-39.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1694.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 667.
VI.5.5 Pompeii but numbered as VI.5.3 on the photo. Pre-1937-39.
Remains of one of the stucco decorated capitals from columns in peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 807.
VI.5.5 Pompeii but numbered as VI.5.3 on photo. Pre-1937-39.
Remains of one of the capitals decorated with a stucco cornice on column in peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 807a.