VI.9.6 Pompeii. Casa dei Dioscuri or House of Castor & Pollux.

Rear entrance at VI.9.9. Excavated 1826, 1828 and 1837.

Linked to VI.9.7 and VI.9.8.

Atrium

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Large peristyle       Pseudoperistyle and east side

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 8.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, mosaic floor.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. November 2023.

Room 8, looking east along north wall from doorway. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted panel from the west end of the north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii.  Room 8, drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli of panel showing Arion on a dolphin playing the lyre, from west end of north wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 1041.

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This panel can also be seen in Museo Borbonico X, tav.VII, by La Volpe. (Helbig 1377).

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 8, border with griffins and painted scene with three figures, from the upper west end of the north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.310. Room 8, detail from north wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted figures and naval scene, from the upper centre of the north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.260. Room 8, detail of painted figure from north wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 8, painted figure and naval scene, from the upper north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.247. Room 8, detail of painted figure and painted panel of naval scene beneath.

For description of naval scene, see Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, III, 1989, p.135, fig 1.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 8, painted figures and architectural painting, from the centre of the north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.312. Room 8, detail of architectural painted decoration from north wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted winged figure, from the dado of the north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 8, wall painting of Nymphs bathing or taking the newly born Adonis, from the north wall.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1390: p.317).

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.251. Room 8, wall painting from the north wall, of Nymphs bathing or taking the newly born Adonis.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Pre 1836. 

Room 8, drawing by Gell of wall painting from the north wall, of Nymphs bathing or taking the newly born Adonis.

Gell wrote –

“This represents Achilles bathed in the Styx and has every appearance of having been taken from something of a superior cast.

It is always agreeable to possess an ancient painting of subjects recorded in history or poetry.”

See Gell, W and Gandy, J., 1880. Pompeii, its destruction and re-discovery. New York: Worthington.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted figure.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 8, detail of painted figure.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, remains of painted decoration from east end of upper north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, painted panel with two figures, one with a shield, from the east end of the north wall,

described by Warscher as “Thetis with the armour of Achilles”.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Drawing attributed to Giuseppe Marsigli, of Thetis with the armour of Achilles, from the east end of the north wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 354.

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The same subject, by La Volpe, can be seen in Museo Borbonico X, tav.VII. (Helbig 1321)

Atrium:    1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8        9       10      Plan  

Large peristyle        Pseudoperistyle and east side