VI.7.6 Pompeii. Casa di Ercole. Linked to VI.7.4 and VI.7.5.

Excavated 1835. Restored 1976.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, north wall of atrium, with doorway to room 10, triclinium.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. W.1283.

Painted decoration on west side of doorway to room 10, triclinium, looking north.

Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south wall of triclinium, with leaning west side. Looking south.

The walls of this triclinium would have been painted with a high zoccolo painted in black panels separated by compartments.

The middle zone of the walls would have had red and yellow panels separated by architectural details in IVth Style.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Room 10, west end of south wall of triclinium.

The outline shape of a Muse has been recognised in the plaster on a red painted panel, and this has been recognised as Thalia with a feminine mask in her right hand. Helbig wrongly described a masculine mask in her right hand.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 883.

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici: Vol. IV. Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.379, no.13 and p.381 no.14)

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 169.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, west end of south wall of triclinium.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, west wall and south-west corner of triclinium, with remains of a window onto garden area.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, west wall of triclinium, with remains of a window onto garden area.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north end of west wall of triclinium.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, north wall of triclinium.

According to Schefold in the centre of the north wall was a painting of Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus, now vanished.

He gives the Helbig reference as 104.

See Schefold, K., 1957. Die Wande Pompejis. Berlin: De Gruyter. (p.99)

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Room 10, north wall of triclinium.

Pen and ink drawing of painting in centre of north wall by Giuseppe Abbate (1842).

This painting would have shown Zeus, Dionysius and Aphrodite, but it has now faded and disappeared.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 166.

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Kuivalainen describes -

A composition of three larger frontal figures, whose head were damaged when found.

Kuivalainen comments –

This wall painting illustrates a rare combination of Venus, Jupiter and Bacchus, all with their characteristic companions or attributes.

Bacchus is the only one with bare feet. The remaining paintings of this triclinium do not provide any insight into this painting.

See Kuivalainen, I., 2021. The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 140. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, (F25, p.178).

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east end of north wall of triclinium, with remains of painted plaster.

VI.7.6 Pompeii.

Room 10, pen and ink drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, showing the Muse Clio, or Calliope, (Helbig 862).

Due to the deterioration of the painted plaster it is not possible to find the actual location of this painted panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 167.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii.

Room 10, pen and ink drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, showing the Muse Melpomene (Helbig 873).

Due to the deterioration of the painted plaster it is not possible to find the actual location of this painted panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 170.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii.

Room 10, pen and ink drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, showing the Muse Urania (Helbig 892).

Due to the deterioration of the painted plaster it is not possible to find the actual location of this painted panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 168.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii.

Room 10, pen and ink drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, showing the Muse Erato (Helbig 867).

Due to the deterioration of the painted plaster it is not possible to find the actual location of this painted panel.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 171.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east wall of triclinium with remains of a wall painting of Hercules, and Muse with zither.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1148)

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.148): Hercules and Omphale.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. W.1288. Room 10, east wall of triclinium with remains of a wall painting of Hercules, on left.

According to Fiorelli, various Muses with their attributes were painted on the walls of the room.

According to Bragantini, on the east wall at the south end, was a painting of a Muse with a zither.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.148)

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east wall of triclinium. Remains of wall painting of Hercules and Iole.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Pre-1827 drawing of wall paintings, according to RMB found in the same room.

Drawing of a young woman holding onto the neck of a bull, (top).

According to RMB, this painting was found in the centre of the wall opposite the lower drawing.

It was thought to be an interpretation of Jupiter kidnapping Europa, (Europa on the bull) but in this painting it was recognised as a Bacchante celebrating with the Dionysian bull.

Drawing of wall painting of Hercules and Iole, (lower).

According to RMB, this painting came from a room of a small house behind the Crypt of the Building of Eumachia.

It shows Hercules crowned with oak sitting on a lion’s skin, holding his club, with Iole.

See Real Museo Borbonico: Vol. III, 1827, Tav. XIX.

(Note, the description of the house as being from a house behind the Crypt of Eumachia’s building, would seem to locate it as from VII.9.60/63.

That location also provided a drawing of a painting of Europa on the bull, which seems very similar. However, in that room is no mention of Hercules and Iole.

In this house, VI.7.6, there is mention of a painting of Hercules and Iole on the east wall of the triclinium, but no mention of Europa or a Bacchante.)

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Room 10, east wall of triclinium. Drawing by Roux of wall painting of Hercules and Iole.

See Roux, A. et Barre, L., 1839. Herculaneum et Pompéi : recueil général des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaïques Etc. (Part 2, Plate 64)

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Room 10, east wall of triclinium.

Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate (1841-1842) showing Hercules and Omphale. (Helbig 1148).

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 165.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 10, east wall of triclinium, with remains of painted wall plaster, a Muse with zither.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. Room 10, east wall of triclinium.

Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, 1841, showing the Muse, Terpsichore, with zither. (Helbig 870)

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 172.

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VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, south wall and south-east corner of triclinium, with doorway into atrium.

VI.7.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 10, east end of south wall of triclinium.

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