VI.10.7 Pompeii. Casa dell’ Ancora or House of the Black Anchor.
Excavated 1826 and 1829. Rear entrance at VI.10.16.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 2, cubiculum, on south side of entrance doorway.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, marble door sill.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, north wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, west wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, centre of south wall.
A wall painting of Poseidon (or Neptune) extending his hand to Amymone was found in the centre of the south wall. Now vanished.
Also found was a painting of Pan and a nymph on the west wall.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (174 and 564).
According to PPM –
The central panel was red and the side panels were yellow. The zoccolo was painted black.
See Carratelli,
G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e
Mosaici 4 (IV). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.1057)
VI.10.7 Pompeii. Room 2, south wall. Drawing by Marsigli of painting of Amymone and Poseidon (Neptune).
See Reale Museo Borbonico, VI, 1830, taf.
18.
See Helbig, W.,
1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (174)
See Roux, H.,
1839. Herculanem et Pompei recueil général
des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaïques : Tome 2. Paris : Didot. (Pl. 62).
VI.10.7 Pompeii. Pre-1846.
Reproduction painting by H. Roux of Amymone and Poseidon (Neptune) from south wall of room on south side of entrance doorway.
See Raoul-Rochette M., 1846. Choix
de Peintures de Pompei. Paris : L’Imprimerie Royale, (Pl.2) and description
(p.17-25, and p.58.)
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 2, floor.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 3, cubiculum. Looking west.
According to Helbig, a wall painting of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus was found on the north wall, in this room.
Also found were two painted Bacchantes.
See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1220 and 495)
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, marble door sill.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, painted plaster in south-east corner.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, south wall.
According to Bragantini, the walls in this room were painted with a black dado.
The middle zone was red, divided into panels.
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.233, cubiculo 9)
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, west wall.
See Zahn, W., 1852. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: III. Berlin: Reimer. (tav.49).
VI.10.7 Pompeii. 1862 painting. Room 3, the central panel has a painting of two female bacchantes.
One sits on a stone seat, with a tympanum in one hand and a pointed amphora in the other.
One is standing and is holding a painting, which she is showing to the other.
See Helbig, W.,
1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (495).
See Niccolini F, 1862. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Secondo. Napoli,
VI.10.7 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, 1829, of central painting of two figures from wall of cubiculum,
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 369.
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VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 3, floor in north-west corner. The original floor was of cocciopesto with scattered large white tesserae.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 3, painted plaster in north-east corner.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, mosaic in north-west corner of atrium, between room 3 and room 4.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 4.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, marble sill in doorway.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, north wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, west wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 4, south wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 5, on north side of atrium.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. September 2019. Room 5, flooring, and remaining
plaster on east wall, of room on north side of atrium.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, east wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 5, west wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, marble door sills of room 6 and room 7 from atrium, and stucco pilaster of tablinum.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 6.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, marble door sill showing grooves for doors or shutters.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, north wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall.
According to Bragantini, the west wall would have had a black dado, and perhaps a white middle zone?
See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.232, cubiculum 6)
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, west wall.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, south-west corner.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 6, south-east corner.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, large lava stone covering black and white mosaic floor remains, outside room 6 in atrium.
VI.10.7 Pompeii. March 2009.
Room 1, large lava stone used as a base for the arca, covering black and white mosaic floor remains, outside room 6 in atrium.
See Eschebach, L., 1993. Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Köln: Böhlau. (p.194).