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. January 2023.

Room 3, atrium, looking south-west towards entrance corridor/doorway, from north side of impluvium. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, looking north-east across atrium, to rooms on the north side.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.804. Room 3, north side of atrium, looking east to doorways to rooms 13, 12 and 11.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 14.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.818. Doorway to room 14.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.817.

Room 3, remains of painted decoration on west side of doorway to room 14, on north-west side of atrium.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, looking through doorway to north-east corner.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.821. Room 14, remains of painted decoration at east end of north wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Room 14, from the centre of the north wall.

Painting of Selene wrapped in her dark cloak descending towards Endymion.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9240.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (960).

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli, 22nd July 1828, of Selene and Endymion from centre of north wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 332.

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VI.9.6 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, 1830, of Selene and Endymion.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 331.

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VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, north wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.820. Room 14, remains of painted decoration at west end of north wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, west wall.

The central wall painting, now very faded, was of Narcissus.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1364)

See Real Museo Borbonico, I, 1824, Tav. 4.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.819. Room 14, west wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli, 21st July 1828, of painting of Narcissus in centre of west wall of oecus.

This painting was left in situ and is now faded and disappeared.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 337.

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VI.9.6 Pompeii. 1824. Room 14, west wall. Drawing of the central wall painting of Narcissus (Helbig 1364)

Real Museo Borbonico, I, table 4.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.302. Room 14, remains of painted decoration on south side of window in west wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, south wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.825. Room 14, remains of wall decorations from south wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, east wall.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.823. Room 14, east wall.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.822. Room 14, north-east corner.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.824. Room 14, detail of painted decoration on zoccolo in north-east corner.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, floor.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, on west side of atrium.

Vl.9.6 Pompeii. W.0301. Room 15, looking west.

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

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, on west side of atrium.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, on west side of atrium.

VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorways to rooms 16 and 15, on west side of atrium.

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

Large peristyle       Pseudoperistyle and east side