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 17, doorway to room 16 in south-west corner of portico of garden area.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, looking at south wall of oecus/triclinium. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, painted plaster on west wall of oecus/triclinium.

The dado was unpainted being in preparation for a marble facing.

The central panel of the middle zone was yellow with a central painting showing a Maenad and Satyr in flight.

The central wall painting has been removed and is now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

The side panels were also yellow and contained medallions, now faded, separated by architecture on a white background.

On the upper wall, there are the remains of a painted aedicula with figures of Satyr and Dionysus.

See Bragantini, de Vos, Badoni, 1983. Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei, Parte 2. Rome: ICCD. (p.236, oecus 22)

VI.10.11 Pompeii.

Room 16, west wall of oecus/triclinium. Floating Bacchic group, or Maenad and Satyr.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 9299.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (528).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Room 16, west wall of oecus/triclinium. Floating Bacchic group, or Maenad and Satyr.

Painting by Giuseppe Marsigli made 30th April 1827,

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 373b.

Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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The original painting was then detached and is now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9299.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. 1828.

Room 16, drawing by Zahn from west wall of oecus/triclinium. Floating Bacchic group, or Maenad and Satyr.

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

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Copy of wall painting of satyr and maenad, oecus/triclinium.

DAIR 83.32. Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.

See https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/3564448

The painting has Casa del Naviglio written on the bottom left.

The Satyr holds a pedum and a bucket, the Maenad does not hold anything in her left hand.

The drawings below show the Satyr holding a bucket, but no pedum – the Maenad is holding a stick/baton.

The DAIR however identifies the above painting as being from V.1.18. The above is also shown there.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Room 16, oecus/triclinium. Floating Bacchic group.

See Helbig, W., 1868. Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Campaniens. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. (518).

See Real Museo Borbonico Vol. IX, 1833, Pl. 23.

VI.10.11 Pompeii.

Room 16, drawing by Zahn from oecus/triclinium. Floating Bacchic group from oecus/triclinium.

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

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 16, remains of wall painting with figures of Satyr and Dionysus, from west wall of oecus/triclinium. 

See Schefold, K., 1962. Vergessenes Pompeji. Bern: Francke. (Photo 94,2)

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, wall painting with figures of Satyr and Dionysus, from west wall of oecus/triclinium. 

See Sogliano, A., 1879. Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79. Napoli: (p.38, no.154)

VI.10.11 Pompeii. Room 16, west wall of oecus/triclinium.

Drawing of wall painting with figures of Satyr holding Dionysus. 

See Reinach S., 1922. Répertoire de peintures grecques et romaines. Paris Leroux. (97,4).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, east wall of oecus/triclinium, showing doorway to room 15.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, remains of plaster on east wall of oecus/triclinium.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, corridor on south side of oecus/triclinium, leading to VI.10.9.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, north wall of oecus/triclinium, with doorway to garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, north-west corner of oecus/triclinium. 

According to Costantino, this room was a triclinium and would have had a floor of opus sectile containing slabs of marble which would have been the same as in the zoccolo.

These were not present, perhaps they had been removed prior to the eruption and had not yet been re-applied.

The preparation for their insertion again could be seen in the north-west corner of the room.

The fourth style decoration was preserved only on the east and west walls of the room.
The north and south walls contained two vast doorway entrances, which took up most of their walls.

See Costantino, C: L’apparato decorativo, in Rileggere Pompei, L’insula 10 della Regio VI, (2006), Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, (p.299)

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, west wall of portico in garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, stucco at top of square pillar on west wall of portico of garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009.

Room 17, painted plaster on south side of base of square pillar on west wall of portico of garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, column in portico of garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, looking east along south portico of garden. 

According to Jashemski, the garden had a portico on the south supported by two pillars and four columns.

It was joined by a low wall with a space for planting in the top.

In the centre of the garden, there are the remains of the masonry summer triclinium.

In the centre of the triclinium, the base for the table still remains.

See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.141-2)

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, looking east along columns in portico of garden area. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, remains of triclinium in centre of garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, remains of triclinium in centre of garden. 

According to Soprano –

“Ubicazione: giardino. L. medius, m.3.75; l. summus e l. imus, m.2.90; lato del fusto della mensa, m.0.25; lato delle cornici, m.0.37.

Bibliog. Fiorelli, op. C., p.114; Bonucci, op. C. P.142; Breton, op. C. P.295.

Il triclinio era situato al centro del giardino; dei letti, a piano inclinato, quelli laterali sono di eguale lunghezza; dell’intonaco non restano che poche tracce lungo le pareti interne.

La mensa, a forma di piccola ara, consta di un podio a sezione quadrata sagomato da cornici.”

See Soprano, P. (1950). I triclini all’aperto di Pompei. (In Pompeiana, raccolta di studi per il secondo centenario degli scavi di Pompei. Napoli, Gaetano Macchiaroli, Editore, P. 301, no.15).

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, remains of table shaped like a small altar, in triclinium in centre of garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, remains of triclinium in centre of garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, west wall of garden, with entrance at VI.10.8. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, west wall of garden with small window next to entrance at VI.10.8

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, remains of column? near west wall of garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, looking north-west across garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, pillar on east wall of garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, stucco on square pillar on east wall of garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. c.1840. Painting by James William Wild, (1814-1892, artist).

Detail of painted stucco at top of square pilaster described as from Casa delle Baccante, lower sketch.

The upper sketch is from the top of a column in the Casa di Sallustio.

Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.3965-1938.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, pillar on east wall of garden.

VI.10.11 Pompeii but shown as VI.10.1 on photo. Pre-1937-39. Pillar and column near east wall in garden.

Photo courtesy of American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Warsher collection no. 1195.

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, column in garden. 

VI.10.11 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, top of column in garden.

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