VI.14.20 Pompeii. Casa di Orfeo or House of Orpheus or the House of Vesonius Primus.
Excavated 1834 and 1874.
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VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 14, looking west.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, west wall with steps to upper floor.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, remains of painted plaster above steps on west wall.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, steps to upper floor in north-west corner.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 14, south wall.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking east to doorways to room 15, and room 16.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, north wall of triclinium with remains of painted plaster.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, west wall of triclinium with remains of painted plaster.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. Painted west wall from room 15, as seen on model in Naples Archaeological Museum.
According to Peters, the mythological scene in a mountain landscape, in the centre of the west wall was in a bad state when found.
This one was known from an old drawing and from a photograph made at the time when the original had already suffered considerably.
It has now vanished completely.
See Peters, W.J.T. (1963): Landscape in Romano-Campanian Mural Paintings. The Netherlands, Van Gorcum & Comp. (p.81)
VI.14.20 Pompeii. 1878. Room 15, landscape painting from west wall of triclinium.
See Presuhn E.,
1878. Pompeji: Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen
von 1874 bis 1878. Leipzig: Weigel. (III, Plate IX).
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, south wall of triclinium, with doorway.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, looking south-east from triclinium, to west portico of garden area.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 15, north-east corner of triclinium.
VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 15, triclinium. Looking west from area of west portico.
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