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. Room 16, portico area on west side, with doorways to rooms 13, 14, and 15.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 16, portico area on west side, with doorways to rooms 15 and 17.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 17.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, north wall of room on north side of west portico. 

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, west wall.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, south wall with doorway to portico area.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, south-east corner with doorway to portico area.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 17, east wall.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, garden area. Looking east along north side of portico.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, north portico of garden area. 

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, niche on north wall of garden area.

According to Boyce, this rectangular niche was found on the north wall of the peristyle.

He added a note that said – in the fullonica connected to this house a bronze statuette of Jupiter was found.

He was bearded, holding a thunderbolt in his left hand. On the base at his side stood an eagle.

See Giornale degli Scavi, N.S., III, 1876, 170.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.53, no.200)

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, gutter in north-west corner of garden area.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. Peristyle with painting of Orpheus. 

Old undated photograph. Courtesy of Society of Antiquaries. Fox Collection.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. Peristyle with painting of Orpheus. 

From old undated photograph. Courtesy of Society of Antiquaries. Fox Collection.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 18, west wall of garden area, with window from room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 18, west wall of garden area, with window from room 13.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. October 2019. Room 18, west wall of garden area, with window from room 13.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VI.14.20 Pompeii. 1964. Room 18, west wall of garden area, with window from room 13. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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