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.
Large Peristyle
Pseudoperistyle and east side Atrium
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.289. Detail from wall decoration on west wall of peristyle 6.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.220. Drawing of wall painting from the west wall of the peristyle 6.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Copy of wall painting with silver cups and pigeon/dove from the west wall of the peristyle 6.
DAIR 83.96. Photo
© Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, wall painting of jug from west wall of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, wall painting of a sitting girl in green chiton and red mantel.
From the south end of the west wall of the peristyle.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1886: p.438).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.234. Room 6, drawing of wall painting of a sitting girl in green chiton and red mantel.
From the south end of the west wall of the peristyle.
See Real Museo Borbonico XII, taf 19.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
Painting attributed to Giuseppe Marsigli, of sitting girl in peristyle found 26th April 1828 but without a head.
Room 6, drawing of wall painting of a sitting girl in green chiton and red mantel.
From the south end of the west wall of the peristyle.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 357.
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VI.9.6 Pompeii. Drawing of sitting girl (found without her head), preliminary drawing for the above painting.
On the left is a drawing of a pig with tied feet (Helbig 1612 also from the peristyle, see photo below by Warscher of pig with two brooms).
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 358.
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VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall of peristyle.
Room 6, looking west towards south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Johannes Eber.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, south end of west wall of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, wall painting of animal larder scene showing a pig and two brooms?
From south end of west wall of peristyle.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1612: p.401).
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.234. Drawing of pig and two brooms, from west wall of peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. Room 6, looking across to south-west pilaster and corner of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.999.
Room 6, looking south towards pilaster in south-west corner, and south wall of peristyle.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. W.1033. Looking north-east at pilaster in south-west corner of peristyle.
One of the paintings of the slaughter of the Niobids would have been seen on the reverse side of this pilaster.
Photo by Tatiana
Warscher. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, looking north at south side of large pilaster in south-west corner of peristyle.
VI.9.6 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, looking across to south-west corner of peristyle.
Pseudoperistyle and east side Atrium