VI.7.20 Pompeii. Casa
dell’Argenteria or Casa dei Vasi d’Argento.
Excavated 1830s and 1976. Linked to VI.7.21 and VI.7.22.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. W.1224. Looking across impluvium in atrium towards south-east corner.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorways to rooms in south-east corner of atrium. Looking east.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorways to rooms in south-east corner of atrium, and on south side.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Doorways to rooms on south side of atrium.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south into cubiculum in centre of south side of atrium.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. Found on 17th Feb 1830. Left wall of atrium (2).
Wall painting of Apollo with halo and corona.
He is wearing a cloak and holds a globe and a whip.
See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.143).
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8819.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking towards south-west corner of atrium, with doorways to rooms on south side, on left.
In the centre is the narrow doorway to the large oecus with wide doorway overlooking the peristyle.
On the right is the tablinum overlooking the peristyle.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. October 2022.
Doorway to oecus in south-west corner of atrium. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. Silver found on 23rd March 1835 in a room on the left (south) of the Tuscan atrium.
2 Canthari, cups with high handles, decorated with Centaurs and Amorini (rear). Inventory numbers 25376 (left) and 25377 (right).
2 Scyphi, deep oval cups with two handles, with ivy leaves decorations with traces of gilding (front right and left). Inventory numbers 25378 (left) and 25379 (right).
An olpe, a round mouthed oil flask or jug, with female head (front centre). Inventory number 25372.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.
See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio
sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno
di Napoli. Naples: Nicola
Longobardi. (p.150).
See Guzzo, P. (A cura di), 2006. Argenti a Pompei. Milano, Electa. (pages 114-122), figs. 106-109.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. Pre January 1851.
Drawing
by Zahn of silverware, top row on either end, two silver vases/canthari from
Pompeii, decorated with cupids and centaurs.
These
were found at Pompeii on 23rd March 1835 and were discovered with 40 others in
a wooden chest in a house in Via Mercurio, facing the house of Castor and
Pollux. The central vase with centaurs was from Herculaneum.
The
row in the centre shows details of the two from Pompeii. The lower row shows
details of the one from Herculaneum.
Now
in Naples Museum.
See Zahn, W., 1852-59. Die schönsten Ornamente
und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III.
Berlin: Reimer, Taf.28.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. 1971.
Silver cup with horizontal and ring handles, decorated with a pattern of ivy leaves. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 25377.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking east from north portico of peristyle. Photo courtesy of
Aude Durand.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006.
Looking east from peristyle, along corridor from peristyle of VI.7.20 to atrium of VI.7.21.
On the right would be the small exedra with medallions.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east in room in north-east corner of peristyle.
On the left is the east wall of the small oecus.
The doorway in the wall on the left leads to the corridor linking with VI.7.22
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Corridor leading north to VI.7.22.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006.
Looking west along north portico of peristyle towards doorway to triclinium, on left, and west wall and doorway to small oecus.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. W1235.
Small oecus with doorway from north portico of peristyle, showing remains of wall decoration on east wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north across triclinium from north portico of peristyle.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2018.
Looking south from doorway of triclinium towards north portico of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-east from north portico of peristyle. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north along corridor to kitchen and latrine.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2018.
Latrine at end of corridor. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.
VI.7.20/21/22 Pompeii. July 2008. Looking north in latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VI.7.20/21/22 Pompeii. July 2008.
Looking north in latrine, after cleaning. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.
VI.7.20 Pompeii. December 2006. Latrine at end of corridor.