VI.10.11 Pompeii. Casa del Naviglio o di zefiro e flora or House of Tintirius or Casa delle Baccanti.

Linked to VI.10.8 and VI.10.9.

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VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, south wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Room 15, south wall of triclinium. Wall painting of the wedding of Zephyr and Chloris.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9202.

Picture courtesy of Stefano Bolognini (Wikimedia Commons).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. W.164. Room 15, south wall of triclinium, site of painting of the wedding of Zephyr and Chloris.

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

VI.10.11 Pompeii. 1828. Room 15, drawing of painting and south wall of triclinium. 

See Zahn, W., 1828. Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herkulanum und Stabiae: I. Berlin: Reimer. (Tav. 13)

VI.10.11 Pompeii. 1828. Room 15, detail of painting by Zahn from centre of south wall of triclinium. 

See Zahn W. Neu entdeckte Wandgemälde in Pompeji gezeichnet von W. Zahn [ca. 1828], taf. XXXVIII.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. 1828. Room 15, drawing of painting of Zephyrus and Chloris, from centre of south wall of triclinium. 

See Roux, H., 1839. Herculanem et Pompei recueil général des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaïques : Tome 2. Paris : Didot. (Pl. 75).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Triclinium 15, painting of Maenad from east end of south wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inventory number 9298. Found 13th November 1826.

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.

See Fiorelli G., 1862. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 2: 1819 - 1860, Naples, p. 179-181

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p.136).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. 1835. Room 15, drawing of painting of Maenad in flight from east end of south wall of triclinium. 

See Real Museo Borbonico 1835, Volume 11, Tav. IV.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Flying maenad.

Photograph by M. Amodio, no. 3060, Danseuse, from an album dated April 1878. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer. 

According to Curtius – she was from a black painted wall. 

See Curtius, L., 1972. Die Wandmalerei Pompejis. New York: Hildesheim. (p.410, photo no.224).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. 1835. Room 15, drawing of painting of Maenad in flight from west end of south wall of triclinium. 

See Real Museo Borbonico 1835, Volume 11, Ta. IV.

VI.10.11 Pompeii.

Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli painted 10th November 1826 from the south wall of the oecus.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 374c.

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This painting of a Maenad was not detached and is now faded and lost.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 15, remains of painted plaster at west end of south wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, south-west corner of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, west wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, west wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, remains of wall painting on upper west wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, remains of architectural painting on upper west wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, remains of central wall painting on west wall of triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. W.163.

Room 15, remains of wall painting from centre of west wall showing Hercules, a woman and a youth.

See Real Museo Borbonico, Vol. IV, 1827, tav.32.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (1147)

The panel above the wall painting showed the painting that was found on the predella of the south wall, under the central painting of the wedding of Zephyr and Chloris.

This showed a hunt, with ferocious beasts, and a cupid, and was on a black background.

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

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, black and white mosaic floor in triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, triclinium, looking north across portico, to garden area.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, doorway to room 16, in west wall of triclinium. 

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