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.
Pseudoperistyle and east side
VI.9.6
Pompeii. December 2023. Room 17, looking south across garden area, from
west portico. Photo courtesy of
Miriam Colomer
VI.9.6 Pompeii. November
2023. Room 17, looking south-east across garden
area, from west portico. Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella.
Room 17, newly planted beautiful garden area, looking south-east from west portico. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.917. Room 17, looking towards north-east corner of pseudo-peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 17, looking towards north-east corner of pseudo-peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 831.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.908. Room 17, looking towards north-east corner.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 17, looking towards north-east corner.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 828.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.914. Room 17, west portico, fragment of tufa architrave.
Photo by Tatiana Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.904. Room 17, north-east corner.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, north wall of garden area.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.899. Room 17, north wall of pseudo-peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Pre-1937-39. Room 17, east end of north wall of pseudo-peristyle.
Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 829.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.903.
Room 17, looking towards north-east corner along channel for rainwater drainage in pseudo-peristyle, along base of north wall.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.897. Room 17, remains of wall decoration from north wall of pseudo-peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.901.
Room 17, looking towards north-west corner of west portico, the doorway to room 20, and the north wall of the pseudo-peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.894. Room 17, looking north towards north-west corner of pseudo-peristyle.
The painting below, but now faded and disappeared, would have been seen on the left side of the doorway to room 20.
The doorway to room 20, is in the centre, and doorway leading to kitchen area towards the right.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli, 15th August 1828, from wall of pseudo-peristyle/garden, showing Io and Argo.
Paintings in the garden were all left in situ and have now faded and disappeared.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 349.
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VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.295. Room 18, kitchen.
The doorway leading out is on the right, into a small vestibule reached from the north-west side of the pseudo-peristyle.
On the right, the doorway into room 19 can also be seen leading east from the small vestibule.
The doorway to the latrine can be seen on the left.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, stairs to upper floor against the south wall in kitchen and latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.315.
Room 18, doorway from kitchen, on left, west wall of kitchen with niche, on right.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, west wall with small arched niche, in kitchen and latrine.
According to Boyce,
a fragmentary painting of Fortuna holding a rudder upon a globe, and below her, the two serpents and an altar, was reported to have been found in the kitchen. No trace of the painting exists now.
See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.50, 177B).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, south-west corner of kitchen and latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, looking towards north-west corner and hearth in kitchen.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W940. Room 18, hearth in kitchen.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, looking west to hearth in kitchen.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.941. Room 18, hearth in kitchen.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north-east corner of kitchen and latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.942. Doorway to latrine in room 18.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 18, looking east towards east wall of kitchen and latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, large latrine near east wall of kitchen and latrine.
According to Hobson, this latrine is just over one metre wide and would have had more than one seat.
This would allow for “private” socialisation.
See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.80)
He also stated that this latrine possibly would have seated two or three persons.
It had a high decorated dado, painted red, with yellow panels but without motifs.
In the area above the dado, a garland of flowers is visible. The floor is a mixture of herringbone and oval tiling.
See Hobson, B., 2009. Latrinae et foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London; Duckworth. (p.86 and fig.110)
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, large latrine on east wall of kitchen and latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, windows on east wall above latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north wall of kitchen and latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, floor of latrine.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. July 2008. Room 18, floor of latrine. Photo courtesy of Barry Hobson.