VI.9.4 Pompeii. Casa del Centauro or Casa di A. Vettius Caprasius Felix.

Secondary entrance, with stairs to upper floor. Linked to VI.9.5. (Strada di Mercurio 13).

VI.9.3      VI.9.5      VI.9.10      VI.9.11      VI.9.12      VI.9.3-5 and VI.9.10-12 Plan

VI.9.4 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance doorway, looking east.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. October 2014. Looking north along front facade from VI.9.4, on right, towards VI.9.3.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. W672. Entrance doorway.

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

VI.9.4 and VI.9.5 Pompeii. W 664. Façade and entrance doorways on Via Mercurio.

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

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking south on Via di Mercurio, towards doorway to VI.9.4.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east from entrance into room 15. 

According to Fiorelli, this was a room with a staircase to the upper floor and a separate entrance doorway to the Via di Mercurio.

He also said that at some time a servant name Paris wrote his graffito for posterity –

Paris hic

fuit

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p.65)

Paris was here   (CIL IV 1305)

See Berry, J., 2007. The Complete Pompeii. London: Thames & Hudson. (p.103)

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, looking towards north wall from entrance. 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. October 2022.

Room 15, looking towards south-east corner, and doorway in south wall into fauces 14 and atrium 16 of VI.9.5.  

Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007.

Room 15, looking towards south wall and doorway into fauces 14 and atrium 16 of VI.9.5, from entrance doorway. 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. July 2017. Room 15, looking east across flooring with doorway to VI.9.5 entrance fauces, on right.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. October 2022. Room 15, detail of flooring in south-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. July 2017. Room 15, detail of flooring.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Floor in room 15, looking east. 

VI.9.4 Pompeii. June 2012. Base of north wall, and downpipes. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. July 2008. Downpipe in north-west corner, near entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007.

Remains of a terracotta down-pipe from the upper floor rooms in north-west corner of room 15 below.

VI.9.4 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 15, base of north wall. 

VI.9.3      VI.9.5      VI.9.10      VI.9.11      VI.9.12      VI.9.3-5 and VI.9.10-12 Plan