VI.9.10 Pompeii. Rear entrance of VI.9.3-5 Casa del Centauro.

Wine cellar and kitchen under the garden of VI.9.5.

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VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Passage/corridor to 3 underground rooms looking north.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Passage/corridor to underground rooms, looking north towards first room.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. First underground room at north end of corridor, looking north east from doorway.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. First underground room, looking east.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009.

Doorway to second underground room, looking west from corridor. The doorway to third room can be seen in the room on the left.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009.

Second underground room, looking towards south-west corner, with doorway to third underground room, on left.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Second Underground room, looking towards west wall and north-west corner.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Second Underground room, looking towards north-east corner and east wall.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking south from second room through doorway into third underground room.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Third underground room, looking south.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Third underground room, looking towards east wall and south-east corner.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Third underground room, looking towards west wall.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Feature in south-west corner of third underground room.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009.

Looking east from second underground room, through doorway into corridor/passageway.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Passageway/corridor from three underground rooms, looking south.

The doorway into the kitchen can be seen on the left.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking towards east towards entrance at top of corridor/ramp.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Entrance corridor/ramp, looking east to Vicolo del Fauno.

The lararium

The lararium pictures below will allow you to make a detailed inspection of the painting which does not seem to be pictured in the usual lararium source books.

It was on the north wall of the subterranean kitchen above a small rectangular altar.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Lararium painting on north wall above altar, in underground kitchen.

Giacobello mentioned a lararium painting identified by Boyce but with no description or picture.

It was on the north wall of the subterranean kitchen above a small rectangular altar.

Neither has a picture. Fröhlich does not mention it at all. Overbeck identified its location.

See Giacobello, F., 2008. Larari Pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Milano: LED Edizioni. (54: p175).

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 50, 175).

See Overbeck J., 1884. Pompeji in seinen Gebäuden, Alterthümen und Kunstwerken. Leipzig: Engelmann. (p. 333).

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Detail of Lararium painting from north wall above altar in underground kitchen.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009.

Detail of figure on lararium painting from north wall above altar, in underground kitchen.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Underground kitchen.

Second figure on lararium painting from north wall above altar.

VI.9.10 Pompeii. March 2009. Underground kitchen.

Detail of second figure on lararium painting from north wall above altar.

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