VI.8.3 Pompeii. Casa del Poeta
Tragico or House of the Tragic Poet.
Excavated 1824 to 1825. Linked to VI.8.5.
Part 4 Part 3
Part 1
Part 2 VI.8.3 and VI.8.5 Room Plan
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022. Looking across peristyle
garden from south portico. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking across peristyle garden from south-east corner, near kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022.
Room 13, looking through doorway into kitchen area. Photo
courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. 2015/2016. Room 13, kitchen.
On the left, the imprint of the line of the stairs to the
upper floor can be seen in the plaster.
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, kitchen. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022.
Room 13, looking towards hearth in kitchen. Photo courtesy of
Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2005. Room 13, kitchen.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022. Room 13, hearth in kitchen. Photo
courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, hearth in kitchen. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022.
Room 13, looking west towards latrine, on left, near doorway to
peristyle.
Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 13, latrine in kitchen area. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022.
Room 13, looking west through doorway from kitchen towards
peristyle.
Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010. Doorway to room 14. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010. Room 14, south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010. Room 14, south wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. c.1828. Room 14, painted wall.
See Raoul Rochette et
Bouchet J., 1828. Choix d'Edifices Inédits : Maison du Poète Tragique.
Paris, pl 12. (Chambre 21).
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010. Room 14, south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010. Room 14, west wall. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
The walls of this room would have had a panelled black zoccolo with compartments with vignettes (now illegible).
The middle zone of the west wall would have had a yellow central panel separated by red side panels.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010. Room 5, corridor to atrium. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii.
December 2023.
Room 5, corridor, looking south to atrium. Photo courtesy of
Miriam Colomer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010.
Room 5, corridor, looking south to atrium. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 5, corridor, looking south to atrium. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. July 2010.
Room 5, west wall of corridor, looking south towards atrium. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015.
Looking south towards across impluvium in atrium towards entrance corridor to VI.8.5. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii.
December 2023. Looking south across atrium from tablinum. Photo courtesy of
Miriam Colomer.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. April 2022.
Looking south across atrium from tablinum. Photo
courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Looking south across atrium from tablinum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. March 2014. Looking south across atrium
from tablinum.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2005. Atrium and impluvium with floor of tablinum in foreground.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. May 2015. Room 6, tablinum with mosaic floor, linking VI.8.3 to VI.8.5. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. March 2014.
Room 6, tablinum with mosaic floor, linking VI.8.3 to VI.8.5.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, tablinum with mosaic floor, linking VI.8.3 to VI.8.5.
In the centre of the mosaic floor would have been the emblema, below (now in Naples Museum).
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. September 2024. Room 6, tablinum with mosaic floor, linking VI.8.3 to VI.8.5.
In the centre of the mosaic floor would have been the mosaic emblema.
Now in Naples
Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9986. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
According to Mau this is an emblema of an actor making preparations for the stage and was found in the floor of the tablinum.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. September 2024. Detail of mosaic masks. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. September 2024. Detail of mosaic from emblema in tablinum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. September 2024.
Detail from mosaic of a youth helping another actor put on his costume. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. September 2024. Detail from mosaic emblema in tablinum. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. Pre-1843. Drawing by Abbate of mosaic emblema in centre of tablinum floor.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9986.
See Raccolta de più interessante Dipinture e di più belle Musaici rinvenuti negli Scavi di Ercolano, di Pompei, e di Stabia. 1843. Napoli, p. 221/260.
The watercolours below have also been
included in VI.8.5
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. 10th September
(18)76.
Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani, preliminary study
of painted wall-decoration in the 'House of the Tragic Poet' at Pompeii.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory
number 2034-1900.
(Note: Although this painting is described as
from this house, we have been unable to locate a likely area.
According to the cross-section below, the front
of the house (VI.8.5) seemed to have red zoccolos, the rear section (VI.8.3)
appeared to have black ones).
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii.c.1828.
Top - Cross section from entrance fauces, on left, towards
lararium against the north wall, on right.
Bottom – Cross section across the north wall.
See Raoul Rochette et
Bouchet J., 1828. Choix d'Edifices Inédits : Maison du Poète Tragique.
Paris, pl 2.
VI.8.3/5 Pompeii. 10th September 1876.
Watercolour by Luigi Bazzani, preliminary study of painted
wall-decoration in the 'House of the Tragic Poet' at Pompeii.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum. Inventory number 2034-1900.
(Note: Although this painting is described as from this house, we
have been unable to locate a likely area.
It may have been from “our” rooms 10, 8, or Ala 4.
According to the cross-section above, the front of the house
(VI.8.5) seemed to have red zoccolos, the rear section (VI.8.3) appeared to
have black ones).
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